Volume 1: America
whither?
From Springfield to Washington
Peace efforts fail
Lincoln takes the oath as president
Cabinet portraits
Office-seekers
War challenge at Sumter
Call for troops
Jefferson Davis
his government
Turmoil
fear
hazards
Bull run lost '61
Commander McClellan
Fremont in Missouri
James Gordon Bennett
Trent affair
"One war at a time"
Uses of patronage
December '61 message
committee on the conduct of the war
Opinion-makers
Expectations of McClellan
Corruption
Stanton replaces Cameron
White House children
Donelson
Grant
Shiloh
Farewell, wooden warships!
Seven days of battles
Summer of '62
Draft
decisions
pathos
Second bull run August '62
chaos
Bloody antietam September '62
Involved slavery issue
Preliminary emancipation proclamation '62
McClellan's "slows" and politics
Election losses in '62
Indian deaths
December '62 message
"We cannot escape history"
Burnside
Fredericksburg '62
morale
Thunder over the cabinet
Volume 2: Drifting
Murfreesboro
"old stars"
Final emancipation proclamation '63
"More horses than oats"
office-seekers
Foreign mediation
Butler
Hooker
Chancellorsville
calamity
Vicksburg
Grant, liquor, and Lincoln
Deep shadows
Lincoln in early '63
Man in the White House
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
deep tides
Lincoln at storm center
Chickamauga and elections won '63
Lincoln speaks at Gettysburg
Epic '63 draws to a close
Grant given high command '64
Will his party renominate Lincoln?
Cash for war
Almaden
hard times
Chase thirsts to run for president
Volume 3
Spring of '64
blood and anger
Grants offensive '64
free press
Lincoln visits the army
Lincoln-Johnson ticket
Washington beleaguered and tumultuous
Darkest month of the war
August '64
Fierce fall campaign of '64
Lincoln's laughter
and his religion
Man had become the issue
Election day, November 8, 1864
Lincoln names a chief justice
Bitter year of '64 comes to a close
Volume 4: "Forever free"
Thirteenth amendment
Heavy smoke
dark smoke
Second inaugural
Executive routine
Lincoln visits Grant's army
Grant breaks Lee's line '65
Lincoln sits in the confederate White House
Palm Sunday of '65
North goes wild
"Not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart"
Negotiations
ominous dream
Calendar says Good Friday
Blood on the moon
Shock
the assassin
stricken people
Tree is best measured when it's down
Vast pageant, then great quiet
Index.