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245 00 $aLiving history the Civil War :$bthe history of the War Between the States in documents, essays, letters, songs, and poems /$cedited by Henry Steele Commager ; revised and expanded by Erik Bruun.
260 $aNew York :$bTess Press :$bBlack Dog & Leventhal Publishers,$c℗♭2000.
300 $a936 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c20 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: Bobbs-Merrill Co., ℗♭1950.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Henry Steele Commager -- I. Darkening clouds (1. Abraham Lincoln is nominated in the wigwam / Murat Halstead -- 2. "First gallant South Carolina nobly made the stand" (A. South Carolina Ordinance of Secession ; B. South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession) -- 3. "She has left us in passion and pride" / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- 4. Lincoln refuses to compromise on slavery / Abraham Lincoln (A. Letter to E.B. Washburne ; B. Letter to James T. Hale ; C. Letter to W.H. Seward) -- 5. Mayor Fernando Wood recommends the secession of New York / Fernando Wood -- 6. Lincoln is inaugurated (A. Herndon describes the inauguration / William H. Herndon ; B. The public man attends the inauguration / The "public man") -- 7. "We are not enemies but friends" / Abraham Lincoln -- 8. Mr. Lincoln hammers out a cabinet / Thurlow Weed -- 9. Seward tries to take charge of the Lincoln administration (A. Memorandum from Secretary Seward / W.H. Seward ; B. Reply to Secretary Seward's memorandum / Abraham Lincoln) -- 10. The Confederacy organizes at Montgomery / T.C. DeLeon) -- 11. Constitution of the Confederate States of America -- 12. A war clerk describes Davis and his cabinet / J.B. Jones -- 13. Sam Houston refuses to go with his state / Sam Houston -- 14. Inaugural address of Jefferson Davis / Jefferson Davis) -- II. The conflict precipitated (1. Mrs. Chesnut watches the attack on Fort Sumter / Mary Boykin Chesnut -- 2. Abner Doubleday defends Fort Sumter / Abner Doubleday -- 3. "The heather is on fire" (A. An Indiana farm boy hears the news / Theodore Upson ; B. "There is but one thought : the Stars and Stripes" / Horace Binney ; C. "One great eagle screams" / Jane Stuart Woolsey) -- 4. "The spirit of Virginia cannot be crushed" / John Tyler, Julia Tyler -- 5. "I am filled with horror at the condition of our country" / Jonathan Worth -- 6. A Northern Democrat urges peaceful separation / J.L. O'Sullivan -- 7. "The race of Philip Sidneys is not extinct" / John Lothrop Motley -- 8. The Supreme Court upholds the Constitution / Robert Grier) -- III. The gathering of the hosts (1. "Our people are all united" / Henry William Ravenel -- 2. Southern ladies send their men off to war / Mary A. Ward -- 3. The North builds a vast army overnight / Edward Dicey -- 4. Northern boys join the ranks (A. Warren Goss enlists in the Union Army / Warren Lee Goss ; B. Lieutenant Favill raises a company and gets a commission / Josiah M. Favill ; C. "We thought the rebellion would be over before our chance would come" / Michael Fitch) -- 5. Baltimore mobs attack the Sixth Massachusetts / Frederic Emory -- 6. Frank Wilkeson goes South with blackguards, thieves, and bounty jumpers / Frank Wilkeson -- 7. Supplying the Confederacy with arms and ammunition / E.P. Alexander -- 8. How the Army of Northern Virginia got its ordnance / William Allan -- 9. Secretary Benjamin recalls the mistakes of the Confederate Congress / Judah P. Benjamin -- 10. Northern ordnance / Comte de Paris)
505 0 $aIV. Bull Run and the Pennsylvania campaign (1. A Confederate doctor describes the victory at first Bull Run / J.C. Nott -- 2. "Bull Run Russell" reports the rout of the Federals / William Howard Russell -- 3. Stonewall Jackson credits God with the victory / Thomas J. Jackson -- 4. "The capture of Washington seems inevitable" / Edwin M. Stanton -- 5. McClellan opens the Peninsular campaign / George B. McClellan -- 6. General Wool takes Norfolk / Egbert L. Viele -- 7. The Army of the Potomac marches to meet McCellan / Sallie Putnam -- 8. R.E. Lee takes command / Evander M. Law -- 9. "Beauty" Stuart rides around McClellan's army / John Esten Cooke -- 10. Oliver Norton fights like a madman at Gaines' Mill / Oliver W. Norton -- 11. The end of seven days (A. The Federals are forced back at White Oak Swamp ; B. Captain Livemore fights at Malvern Hill / Thomas L. Livermore) -- 12. Richard Auchmuty review the Peninsular campaign / Richard Auchmuty) -- V. Stonewall Jackson and the Valley campaign (1. Dick Taylor campaigns with Jackson in the Valley ; 2. Taylor's Irishmen capture a battery at Port Republic / Richard Taylor -- 3. Colonel Wolseley visits Stonewall Jackson / Lord Wolseley -- 4. Henry Kyd Douglas remembers Stonewall Jackson / Henry Kyd Douglas) -- VI. Second Bull Run and Antietam (1. "Who could not conquer with such troops such as these?" / Robert L. Dabney -- 2. Jackson outsmarts and outfights Pope at Manassas / John H. Chamberlayne -- 3. Pope wastes his strength on Jackson / David M. Strother -- 4. Longstreet overwhelms Pope at Manassas / Alexander Hunter -- 5. "Little Mac" is reappointed to command (A. "To fight is is not his forte" / Gideon Welles ; B. General Sherman explains why he cannot like McClellan / William T. Sherman ; C. "Little Mac's a-coming" / Oliver W. Norton) -- 6. McClellan "saves his country" twice ; 7. McClellan finds the lost order / George B. McClellan -- 8. McClellan forces Turner's Gap and Crampton's Gap ; 9. The bloodiest day of the war / David M. Strother -- 10. Hooker hammers the Confederate left, in vain (A. Wisconsin boys are slaughtered in the cornfield / Rufus R. Dawes ; B. McLaws to the rescue of Hood / James A. Graham) -- 11. The desperate fighting along Bloody Lane (A. Thomas Livermore puts on his war paint / Thomas L. Livermore ; B. General Gordon is wounded five times at Antietam / John B. Gordon) -- 12. "The whole landscape turns red" at Antietam / David I. Thompson) -- VII. Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville (1. Lincoln urges McClellan to advance / Abraham Lincoln -- 2. Burnside blunders at Fredericksburg (A. The Yankees attack Marye's Heights / William H. Owen ; B. The Irish Brigade is repulsed on Marye's Hill / J.P. Polley ; C. The 5th New Hampshire to the rescue / John R. McCrillis) -- 3. The gallant Pelham at Fredericksburg / John Esten Cooke -- 4. Night on the field of Fredericksburg / J.L. Chamberlain -- 5. Lincoln appoints Hooker to the command of the Army / Abraham Lincoln -- 6. Lee whips Hooker at Chancellorsville / Charles F. Morse -- 7. Pleasonton stops the Confederates at Hazel Grove / Alfred Pleasonton -- 8. Stuart and Anderson link up at Chancellorsville / Heros von Borcke -- 9. Lee loses his right arm / James Power Smith)
505 0 $aVIII. How the soldiers lived : eastern front (1. Theodore Winthrop recalls a typical day at Camp Cameron / Theodore Winthrop -- 2. Abner Small paints a portrait of a private in the Army of the Potomac / Abner Small -- 3. Life with the Thirteenth Massachusetts / Charles E. Davis -- 4. Minutiae of soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia / Carlton McCarthy -- 5. Inventions and gadgets used by the soldiers ; 6. Hardtack and coffee / John D. Billings -- 7. "Starvation, rags, dirt, and vermin" / Randolph Abbott Shotwell -- 8. Voting in the field (A. Electioneering in the camps / James A. Leonard ; B. President Lincoln needs the soldier vote / Abraham Lincoln) -- 9. Red tape, North and South (A. Dunn Browne has trouble with the War Department / Samuel Fiske ; B. A Confederate lieutenant complains that red-tapeism will lose the war / Randolph Abbott Shotwell) -- 10. The Confederates get religion (A. Religion in the Confederate Army / Benjamin W. Jones ; B. John Dooley describes prayer meetings / John Dooley)) -- IX. Incidents of army life : eastern front (1. How it feels to be under fire / Frank Holsinger -- 2. Fitz John Porter views the Confederates from a balloon / George A. Townsend -- 3. Stuart's ball is interrupted by the Yankees / Jeros von Borcke -- 4. Foreigners fight in the Northern Army / George B. McClellan -- 5. With "Extra Billy" Smith at York / Robert Stiles -- 6. Blue and gray fraternize on the picket line / Alexander Hunter -- 7. Life with the Mosby Guerrillas / John W. Munson -- 8. Rebel and Yankee yells / J. Harvie Dew -- 9. Women among the ranks (A. Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Private Lyons Wakeman / Sarah Rosetta Wakeman ; B. Exploits of Mrs. Major Belle Reynolds / Peoria Daily Transcript)) -- X. From Fort Donelson to Stones River (1. Grant wins his spurs at Belmont / Eugene Lawrence -- 2. U.S. Grant becomes Unconditional Surrender Grant / U.S. Grant -- 3. With the Dixie Grays at Shiloh / Sir Henry Morton Stanley -- 4. An Illinois private fights at the Hornet's Nest / Leander Stillwell -- 5. The Orphan Brigade is shattered at Stones River / L.D. Young) -- XI. The struggle for Missouri and the West. 1. Cotton is king at the Battle of Lexington / Samuel Phillips Day -- 2. Guerrilla warfare in Missouri / William Monks -- 3. The tide turns at Pea Ridge / Franz Sigel -- 4. The Confederates scatter after Pea Ridge / William Watson -- 5. Quantrill and his guerrillas sack Lawrence / Gurdon Grovenor -- 6. Colonel Bailey dams the Red River / David D. Porter -- 7. Price invades the North and is defeated at Westport / Wiley Britton) -- XII. How the soldiers lived : western front (1. John Chipman Gray views the Southern soldier / John Chipman Gray -- 2. A Wisconsin boy complains of the hardships of training / Chauncey H. Cooke -- 3. Religion and play in the Army of Tennessee / Jenkin Lloyd Jones -- 4. The great revival in the Army of Tennessee / T.J. Stokes -- 5. From reveille to taps / George Ward Nichols -- 6. An Indiana boy reassures his mother about morals in the army / Theodore Upson -- 7. Graft and corruption in the Confederate commissary / William Watson -- 8. The soldiers get paid and the sutler gets the money / Charles B. Johnson -- 9. Song and play in the Army of Tennessee (A. Theatricals in the army / The Southern Illustrated News ; B. Good cheer in the ranks / Bromfield Ridley)) -- XIII. Incidents of Army life : western front (1. Mark Twain recalls a campaign that failed / Mark Twain -- 2. Major Connolly loses faith in the chivalry of the South / James Connolly -- 3. The great locomotive chase in Georgia / William Pittenger -- 4. A Badger boy meets the originals of Uncle Tom's Cabin / Chauncey H. Cooke -- 5. The Confederates escape in the Teche country / W. De Forest -- 6. General Wilson raises his cavalry the hard way / James H. Wilson)
505 0 $aXIV. The problem of discipline (1. Thomas Wentworth Higginson explains the value of trained officers / Thomas W. Wentworth -- 2. "It does not suit our fellows to be commanded much" / Charles F. Johnson -- 3. Conduct unbecoming an officer / Robert C. Murphy, William s. Rosecrans, Ulysses S. Grant -- 4. A camp of skulkers at Cedar Mountain / George A. Townsend -- 5. "The army is becoming awfully depraved" / Charles W. Wills -- 6. Robert Gould Shaw complains that war is a dirty business / Robert Gould Shaw -- 7. The Yankee invaders pillage and burn (A. "The soldiers delight in destroying everything" / Francis Edwin Pierce ; B. The Yankees sack Sarah Morgan's home / Sarah Morgan Dawson ; C. Grierson's Raiders on a rampage / Elizabeth Jane Beach ; D. "Oh, Earth, behold the monster!" / Henrietta Lee) -- 8. Punishments in the Union and Confederate Armies (A. Punishments in the Army of the Potomac / Frank Wilkeson -- B. Punishments in the Army of Northern Virginia / John Dooley) -- 9. Executing deserters (A. General Sheridan executes two deserters at Chattanooga / Washington Gardner ; B. Executing deserters from the Confederate Army / Spencer Glascow Welch) -- 10. General Lee discusses the problem of discipline (A. The need for punishment as a deterrent ; B. "We cannot escape the disgrace that attends these evildoers / Robert E. Lee) -- 11. Sex in the Civil War (Unidentified Sanitary Commission officer) -- XV. Great Britain and the American Civil War (1. Henry Ravenel expects foreign intervention / Henry William Ravenel -- 2. Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine rejoices in the break-up of the Union / Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine -- 3. George Ticknor explains the war to his English friends / George Ticknor -- 4. Captain Wilkes seizes Mason and Slidell / D. Macneill Fairfax -- 5. "Shall it be love, or hate, John?" / Russell Lowell -- 6. Palmerston and Russell discuss intervention / Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston -- 7. "An error, the most singular and palpable" / William E. Gladstone -- 8. The English press condemns the Emancipation Proclamation / The Times -- 9. Manchester workingmen stand by the Union (A. "We are truly one people" / Manchester workingmen -- B. "An instance of sublime Christian heroism" / Abraham Lincoln) -- 10. Richard Cobden rejoices in the Emancipation Proclamation / Richard Cobden -- 11. English aristocrats organize for Southern independence / Southern Independence Association of London -- 12. "The reasons why Great Britain is averse to recognise us" / The Southern Illustrated News -- 13. Minister Adams points out that this is war / Charles Francis Adams)
505 0 $aXVI. Songs the soldiers sang (1. Dixie / Dan D. Emmett -- 2. The bonnie blue flag / Harry McCarthy -- 3. John Brown's body / Thomas B. Bishop (?) -- 4. All quiet along the Potomac / Ethel Lynn Beers -- 5. Marching along / William Batchelder Bradbury -- 6. Maryland! My Maryland! / James R. Randall -- 7. The battle hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe -- 8. We are coming, Father Abraham / James Sloan Gibbons -- 9. The battle-cry of Freedom ; 10. Tramp, tramp, tramp ; 11. Just before the battle, Mother / George Root -- 12. Tenting tonight / Walter Kittredge -- 13. Marching through Georgia / Henry Clay Work -- 14. Mister, here's your mule / unknown -- 15. Lorena / H.D.L. Webster (?) -- 16. When Johnny comes marching home / Patrick S. Gilmore (?) -- XVII. Poems of the Civil War (1. Poet laureate of the South / Henry Timrod (A. Ethnogenesis ; B. Carolina ; C. Ode) -- 2. The death of slavery / William Cullen Bryant -- 3. Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier -- 4. "Oh, Mother, look down from Heav'n on me" (A. The drummer boy of Shiloh / Will "Shakespeare" Hayes ; B. Little Giffen / Francis Orrery Ticknor ; C. Killed at the Ford / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; D. Vigil strange I kept on the field one night ; E. Come up from the fields Father / Walt Whitman ; F. Dirge for a soldier / George Henry Boker) -- 5. The honored general (A. Lee to the rear / John Reuben Thompson ; B. Robert E. Lee / Julia Ward Howe) -- 6. O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman -- 7. Driving home the cows / Kate Putnam Osgood -- 8. The artilleryman's vision / Walt Whitman -- 9. The conquered banner / Abran Joseph Ryan -- 10. The blue and the gray / Francis Miles French) -- XVIII. Gettysburg -- XIX. Vicksburg and Port Hudson -- XX. Prisons, North and South -- XXI. Behind the lines : the North -- XXII. Behind the lines : the South -- XXIII. Hospitals, surgeons, and nurses -- XXIV. The African-American experience -- XXV. A war for emancipation -- XXVI. The coast and inland waters -- XXVII. The blockade and the cruisers -- XXVIII. Chicakamauga and Chattanooga -- XXIX. Atlanta and the march to the sea -- XXX. The Wilderness -- XXXI. The siege of Petersburg -- XXXII. The Valley in 1864 -- XXXIII. Lee and Lincoln -- XXXIV. The sunset of the Confederacy -- Appendix A. Reconstructing the nation (1. The destruction of the South (A. Prominent citizens became piesellers / Myrta Lockett Avary ; B. "In the heart of destruction" / Sidney Andrews) -- 2. "Education must become universal" / Congressional Report on the Freedman's Bureau -- 3. First Reconstruction Act / U.S. Congress -- 4. Constitutional Amendments (A. Thirteenth Amendment ; B. Fourteenth Amendment ; C. Fifteenth Amendment) -- 5. "The end of the white man's government / The New Orleans Tribune -- 6. Black parliament in South Carolina / James S. Pike -- 7. "A full pardon" / Andrew Johnson -- 8. The Ku Klux Klan (A. "I shook hands with Bob 'fore they hung him" / Ben Johnson ; B. Frankfort, Kentucy, Congressional petition / Colored Citizens of Frankfort and vicinity -- 9. "We had only our ignorance / Anonymous -- 10. "The uneducated Negro was too weak" / Daniel Chamberlain -- 11. "A general reestablishment of order" / Rutherford B. Hayes) ; Appendix B. Documents of lasting influence (A. Homestead Act ; 2. Pacific Railway Act ; 3. Morrill Act / U.S. Congress -- 4. West Virginia becomes a state / People of Virginia -- 5. Ousting the French from Mexico / (A. Seward to Adams / W.H. Seward ; B. House resolution on French intervention in Mexico / U.S. Congress ; C. Seward to Motley / W.H. Seward) -- 6. Ex Parte Merryman / Roger B. Taney -- 7. Ex Parte Milligan / David Davis).
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