| Title |
The Civil War : the second year told by those who lived it / Stephen W. Sears, editor. |
| OCLC |
777578426 |
| ISBN |
9781598531442 |
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1598531441 |
| Publisher |
New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group, 2012. |
| Description |
xxvii, 873 pages : color maps ; 21 cm. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Frederick Douglass: What shall be done with the slaves if emancipated?, January 1862 ; "Do nothing with them": January 1862 -- John Boston to Elizabeth Boston, January 12, 1862 ; A slave escapes: Virginia, January 1862 -- Salmon P. Chase: Journal, January 6, 1862 ; "Vigorous prosecution of the war": Washington, D.C., January 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln to Don Carlos Buell and Henry W. Halleck, January 13, 1862 ; "My general idea of this war": January 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: President's General War Order No. I, January 27, 1862; President's Special War Order No. I, January 31, 1862 ; War orders, January 1862 -- George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton, February 3, 1862 ; A campaign against Richmond: February 1862 -- Julia Ward Howe: The Battle Hymn of the Republic, February 1862; from Reminiscences, 1819-1899 ; "His terrible swift sword": February 1862 -- The New York Times: An important arrest, February 11, 1862; The Ball's Bluff disaster: Gen. McClellan and Gen. Stone, April 12, 1863 ; A general is arrested: Washington, D.C., February 1862 -- Lew Wallace: from An Autobiography ; Attack on Fort Donelson: Tennessee, February 1862 -- John Kennerly Farris to Mary Farris, October 31, 1862 ; Fort Donelson surrenders: Tennessee, February 1862 -- Henry Walke: The western flotilla at Fort Donelson, Island Number Ten, Fort Pillow and Memphis ; The river war: February-June 1862 -- Braxton Bragg to Judah P. Benjamin, February 15, 1862 ; Confederate strategy: February 1862 -- John B. Jones: Diary, February 8-28, 1862 ; "These calamities": Virginia, February 1862 -- Jefferson Davis: Message to the Confederate Congress, February 25, 1862 ; Richmond, Virginia, February 1862 -- George E. Stephens to the Weekly Anglo-African, March 2, 1862 ; "The boldest feat": Maryland, March, 1862 -- Orpheus C. Kerr: From The Orpheus C. Kerr papers ; "All quiet on the Potomac": March 1862 -- Dabney H. Maury: Recollections of the Elkhorn campaign ; Battle of Elkhorn Tavern: Arkansas, March 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: Message to Congress on compensated emancipation, March 6, 1862; Abraham Lincoln to James A. McDougall, March 14, 1862 ; Washington, D.C., March 1862 -- Catesby ap Roger Jones: From "Services of the 'Virginia' (Merrimac)" ; A naval revolution: Virginia, March 1862 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: From "Chiefly about war-matters" ; A visit to Washington and Virginia: March 1862 -- George B. McClellan to the Army of the Potomac, March 14, 1862, and to Samuel L. M. Barlow, March 16, 1862 ; The "grand campaign" opens: Virginia, March 1862 -- |
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Charles Francis Adams to Charles Francis Adams Jr., April 4, 1862 ; Britain and the Ironclads: London, April 1862 -- Emily Dickinson to Louise and Frances Norcross, late March 1862 ; "His big heart shot away": Massachusetts, March 1862 -- Frederick Douglass: The war and how to end it, March 25, 1862 ; "The lesson of the hour": March 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan, April 9, 1862 ; "But you must act": Washington, D.C., April 1862 -- Ulysses S. Grant to Commanding Officer, Advance Forces, April 6, 1862; to Julia Dent Grant, April 8, 1862; to Nathaniel H. McLean, April 9, 1862; to Jesse Root Grant, April 26, 1862; and to Elihu B. Washburne, May 14, 1862 ; Battle of Shiloh: Tennessee, April 1862 -- William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, April 11, 1862 ; "We caught the first thunder": Tennessee, April 1862 -- George W. Dawson to Laura Amanda Dawson, April 26, 1862 ; "They ran in every direction": Tennessee, April 1862 -- Herman Melville: Shiloh, April 1862 ; "The church so lone": April 1862 -- Confederate conscription acts, April 16 and 21, 1862 ; Richmond, Virginia, April 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: Message to Congress, April 16, 1862 ; Abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia: April 1862 -- John Russell Bartlett: The "Brooklyn" at the passage of the forts ; Running the gauntlet, Louisiana, April 1862 -- George Hamilton Perkins to Susan G. Perkins, April 27, 1862 ; The fall of New Orleans: Louisiana, April 1862 -- Charles S. Wainwright: Diary, May 5, 1862 ; Battle of Williamsburg: Virginia, May 1862 -- John B. Jones: Diary, May 14-19, 1862 ; "A critical condition": Virginia, May 1862 -- Garland H. White to Edwin M. Stanton, May 7, 1862 ; "A Black regiment": Canada, May 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: Proclamation revoking General Hunter's emancipation order, May 19, 1862 ; Washington, D.C., May 1862 -- Richard Taylor: From Destruction and Reconstruction ; Meeting Stonewall Jackson: Virginia, May 1862 -- Elizabeth Blair Lee to Samuel Phillips Lee, May 26, 1862 ; "The progress of events": Washington, D.C., May 1862 -- Thoma O. Moore: To the people of Louisiana, May 24, 1862 ; "No similar instance of infamy": Louisiana, May 1862 -- Lord Palmerston to Charles Francis Adams, June 11, 1862; Benjamin Moran: Journal, June 25, 1862 ; "Revolting outrages": London, June 1862 -- Henry Ropes to William Ropes, June 3-4, 1862 ; Battle of Fair Oaks: Virginia, May-June 1862 -- Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, June 5, 1862 ; A military assessment: Virginia, June 1862 -- David Hunter to Edwin M. Stanton, June 23, 1862 ; Arming freed slaves: South Carolina, June 1862 -- Kate Stone: Journal, June 29-July 5, 1862 ; Fear of the "Yankees": Louisiana, June-July 1862 -- Edward Porter Alexander: From Fighting for the Confederacy ; The seven days begin: Virginia, June 1862 -- Charles A. Page: From Letters of a War Correspondent ; Battle of Gaines's mill: Virginia, June 1862 -- George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton, June 28, 1862 ; An accusation of betrayal: Virginia, June 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln to William H. Seward, June 28, 1862 ; Washington, D.C., June 1862 ; "The present condition of the war": Washington, D.C., June 1862 -- |
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Charles B. Haydon: Journal, June 25-July 1, 1862 ; The Union retreat: Virginia, June-July 1862 -- Asa D. Smith: Narrative of the Seven Days' battles ; Wounded at Glendale: Virginia, June-July 1862 -- Judith W. McGuire: Diary, June 27-30, 1862 ; "Our beleaguered city": Virginia, June 1862 -- Sallie Brock: From Richmond during the war ; "Death held a carnival": Virginia, June-July 1862 -- Sara Agnes Pryor: From Reminiscences of Peace and War ; A Richmond hospital: Virginia, June-July 1862 -- Whitelaw Reid: General Hunter's Negro soldiers, July 6, 1862 ; Debating Black soldiers: Washington, D.C., July 1862 -- George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, July 7, 1862 ; "Civil and military policy": Virginia, July 1862 -- Thomas H. Dudley and J. Price Edwards: an exchange, July 9, 10, and 16, 1862 ; Building a Confederate cruiser: England, July 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: Appeal to border state representatives for compensated emancipation, July 12, 1862 ; Washington, D.C., July 1862 -- Second Confiscation Act, July 17, 1862 ; Washington, D.C., July 1862 -- John Pope: Address to the Army of Virginia, July 14, 1862 ; "Success and glory": Washington, D.C., July 1862 -- John Pope: General Orders Nos. 5, 7, 11, July 18, 20, and 23, 1862 ; A change in policy: Washington, D.C., July 1862 - Fitz John Porter to Joseph C. G. Kennedy, July 17, 1862 ; The "idol" of the army: Virginia, July 1862 -- August Belmont to Thurlow Weed, July 20, 1862 ; An appeal for negotiation: Rhode Island, July 1862 -- Salmon P. Chase to Richard C. Parsons, July 20, 1862 ; A "shameful" defeat: Washington, D.C., July 1862 -- Salmon P. Chase: Journal, July 22, 1862 ; Presidential emancipation: Washington, D.C., July 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: First draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, July 22, 1862 ; Washington, D.C., July 1862 -- Francis B. Carpenter: From Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln ; Postponing emancipation: Washington, D.C., July 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln to Cuthbert Bullitt, July 28, 1862 ; Saving the government: Washington, D.C., July 1862 -- Charles Sumner to John Bright, August 5, 1862 ; Cotton and emancipation: Massachusetts, August 1862 -- Henry W. Halleck to George B. McClellan, August 6, 1862 ; Evacuating the peninsula: Washington D.C., August 1862 -- Memorial of a committee of citizens of Liberty County, Georgia, August 5, 1862 ; Fleeing slaves: Georgia, August 1862 -- Confederate War Department: General Orders No. 60, August 21,1862 ; Retaliation for arming slaves: Virginia, August 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: Address on colonization, August 14, 1862 ; Washington, D.C., August 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862 ; "I would save the Union": Washington, D.C., August 1862 -- William T. Sherman to Thomas Hunton, August 24, 1862 ; Slavery and the laws of war: Tennessee, August 1862 -- John Lothrop Motley to William H. Seward, August 26, 1862 ; Emancipation and diplomacy: Austria, August 1862 -- Harriet Jacobs to William Lloyd Garrison, September 5, 1862 ; Aiding contrabands: Washington, D.C., Summer 1862 -- |
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Edward Porter Alexander: From Fighting for the Confederacy ; The second Manassas campaign: Virginia, August 1862 -- Charles Francis Adams Jr. to Charles Francis Adams, August 27, 1862 ; "Treachery": Washington, D.C., August 1862 -- John Hampden Chamberlayne to Martha Burwell Chamberlayne, September 6, 1862 ; "These great operations": Virginia and Maryland, August-September, 1862 -- John Pope to Henry W. Halleck, September 1, 1962 ; "Unsoldierly and dangerous conduct": Virginia, September 1862 -- Clara Barton to John Shaver, September 4, 1862 ; Aiding the wounded: Virginia and Washington, D.C., August-September 1862 -- Gideon Welles: Diary, August 31-September 1, 1862 ; "McClellan must go down": Washington, D.C., August-September 1862 -- John Hay: Diary, September 1, 1862 ; "We are whipped again": Washington, D.C., September 1862 -- Edward Bates: Remonstrance and notes on Cabinet meeting, September 2, 1862 ; "The Prest. was in deep distress": Washington, D.C., September 1862 -- Salmon P. Chase: Journal, September 2, 1862 ; "A series of failures": Washington, D.C., September 1862 -- George B. McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, September 2, 1862 ; Restored to command: Washington, D.C., September 1862 -- Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, September 3, 1862 ; Invading Maryland: Virginia, September 1862 -- George Templeton Strong: Diary, September 3-4, 1862 ; "A state of nausea": New York, September 1862 -- William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Freeman Lusk, September 6, 1862 ; A demoralized army: Washington, D.C., September 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: Meditation on the divine will, c. early September 1862 ; "God wills this contest": Washington, D.C., September 1862 -- Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell: An exchange, September 14, 17, and 23, 1862 ; Britain considers mediation: September 1862 -- Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, September 8, 1862 ; "Recognition of our independence": Maryland, September 1862 -- Lewis H. Steiner: Diary, September 5-6, 1862 ; A "dirty and repulsive" army: Maryland, September 1862 -- James Richmond Boulware: Diary, September 4-14, 1862 ; A Confederate in Maryland: September 1862 -- Alpheus S. Williams to George B. McClellan, September 13, 1862; Robert E. Lee: Special Orders No. 191, September 9, 1862 ; The lost order: Maryland, September 1862 -- George W. Smalley: Narrative of Antietam, September 17, 1862 ; Battle of Antietam: Maryland, September 1862 -- Rufus R. Dawes: From Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers ; Fight for the cornfield: Maryland, September 1862 -- Alpheus S. Williams to Irene and Mary Williams, September 22, 1862 ; "The infernal music": Maryland, September 1862 -- David L. Thompson: With Burnside at Antietam ; A landscape turned red: Maryland, September 1862 -- Samuel W. Fiske to the Springfield Republican, September 20, 1862 ; After the battle: Maryland, September 1862 -- Clifton Johnson: From Battleground Adventures ; "Our men had won": Maryland, September 1862 -- Mary Bedinger Mitchell: A woman's recollections of Antietam ; "Noise, confusion, dust": Virginia, September 1862 -- |
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George B. McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, September 20, 1862 ; "Our victory was complete": Maryland, September 1862 -- Ephraim Anderson: From Memoirs: Historical and Personal ; Battle of Iuka: Mississippi, September 1862 -- Gideon Welles: Diary, September 22, 1862 ; "The cause of emancipation": Washington, D.C., September 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862; Proclamation suspending the writ of habeas corpus, September 24, 1862 ; Washington, D.C., September 1862 -- L. A. Whitely to James Gordon Bennett, September 24,1862 ; "The air is thick with revolution": Washington, D.C., September 1862 -- George B. McClellan to William H. Aspinwall, September 26, 1862 ; "Servile war" and "despotism": Maryland, September 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln: Record of dismissal of John J. Key, September 26-27, 1862 ; "That is not the game": Washington, D.C., September 1862 -- Fitz John Porter to Manton Marble, September 30, 1862 ; "Proclamations of a political coward": Maryland, September 1862 -- Braxton Bragg: To the people of the Northwest, September 26, 1862 ; A Confederate invasion: Kentucky, September 1862 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson: The President's proclamation, September, 1862 ; "An event worth the dreadful war": Massachusetts, September 1862 -- Frederick Douglass: Emancipation proclaimed, October 1862 ; "Your deliverance draws nigh!": October 1862 -- Debate in the Confederate Senate on retaliation for the Emancipation Proclamation, September 29 and October 1, 1862 ; Richmond, Virginia, October 1862 -- The Times of London: Editorial on the Emancipation Proclamation, October 7, 1862 ; "This gigantic wickedness": London, October 1862 -- George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, October 7, 1862 ; Obeying civil authority: Maryland, October 1862 -- Oscar L. Jackson: From The Colonel's diary ; Battle of Corinth: Mississippi, October 1862 -- Charles B. Labruzan: Journal, October 4, 1862 ; "An awful day": Mississippi, October 1862 -- J. Montgomery Wright: Notes of a staff-officer at Perryville ; Battle of Perryville: Kentucky, October 1862 -- Sam R. Watkins: From "Co. Aytch,"Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment ; "This grand havoc of battle": Kentucky, October 1862 -- Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan, October 13, 1862 ; "Your over-cautiousness": Washington, D.C., October 1862 -- Lord Palmerston to Lord Russell, October 2 and 22, 1862 ; Reconsidering mediation: England, October 1862 -- Charles Sumner to John Bright, October 28, 1862 ; "The Presdt. is in earnest": Massachusetts, October 1862 -- Francis Preston Blair to Montgomery Blair, November 7, 1862 ; "An auger too dull to take hold": Washington, D.C., November 1862 -- George G. Meade to Margaret Meade, November 8, 1862 ; McClellan's dismissal: Virginia, November 1862 -- Orville H. Browning: Diary, November 29, 1862 ; Lincoln and McClellan: Washington, D.C., November 1862 -- |
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Abraham Lincoln: Annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862 ; Washington, D.C., December 1862 -- Edward Porter Alexander: From Fighting for the Confederacy ; Battle of Fredericksburg: Virginia, December 1862 -- Samuel W. Fiske to the Springfield Republican, December 15 and 17, 1862 ; "Murderous butchery": Virginia, December 1862 -- Henry Livermore Abbott to Josiah Gardner Abbott, December 14, 1862, and to George B. Perry, December 17, 1862 ; "Thoroughly licked": Virginia, December 1862 -- Clifton Johnson: From Battleground Adventures ; "An awful day": Virginia, December 1862 -- Walt Whitman: From Specimen Days ; "Hundreds die every day": Virginia, December 1862 -- Louisa May Alcott: From Hospital Sketches ; "Torn and shattered": District of Columbia, December 1862 -- Orville H. Browning: Diary, December 18, 1862 ; A cabinet crisis: Washington D.C., December 1862 -- Gideon Welles: Diary, December 19-20, 1862 ; Lincoln resolves the crisis: Washington, D.C., December 1862 -- Harper's Weekly: The reverse at Fredericksburg, December 27, 1862 ; "Sickness, disgust, and despair": December 1862 -- George Templeton Strong: Diary, December 27, 1862 ; Lincoln and emancipation: New York, December 1862 -- Fitz John Porter to Samuel L. M. Barlow, December 29, 1862 ; Porter's court-martial: Washington, D.C., December 1862 -- Cyrus F. Boyd: Diary, December 22-25, 1862 ; Looting in Holly Springs: Mississippi, December 1862 -- Jefferson Davis: Address to the Mississippi Legislature, December 26, 1862 ; Jackson, December 1862 -- William T. Sherman to John Sherman, January 6, 1863 ; Battle of Chickasaw Bayou: Mississippi, December 1862 -- Samuel Sawyer, Pearl P. Ingalls, and Jacob G. Forman to Samuel R. Curtis, December 29, 1862 ; Mistreatment of contrabands: Arkansas, December 1862 -- Ira S. Owens: From Greene County in the War ; Battle of Stones River, Tennessee, December 1862-January 1863 -- Lot D. Young: From Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade ; "Bloody and useless sacrifice": Tennessee, December 1862-January 1863 -- Ambrose E. Burnside to Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863 ; An offer to resign: Washington, D.C., January 1863 -- Abraham Lincoln to Henry W. Halleck, January 1, 1863 ; "You fail me precisely": Washington, D.C., January 1863 -- Abraham Lincoln: Final Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863 ; Washington, D.C., January 1863 -- Benjamin Rush Plumly to Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863 ; Celebrating emancipation: Philadelphia, January 1863 -- Abraham Lincoln to John A. McClernand, January 8, 1863 ; "Broken eggs can not be mended": Washington, D.C., January 1863 -- Chronology. |
| Summary |
Covers the Civil War from January 1862 to January 1863, describing the events of that year through messages, proclamations, newspaper articles, letters, diaries, and poems from people who lived through it. |
| General note |
"This Library of America volume is the second in a four-volume series bringing together memorable and significant writing by participants in the American Civil War." -- preface. |
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