America's war: Talking about the Civil War and Emancipation on their 150th anniversaries

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Journal kept at the hospital, Georgetown, D.C.

"What To the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

"A Plea for Captain John Brown"

First Inaugural Address

"Cornerstone" Speech

Speech for Secession of Virginia

Speech for Virginia Remaining in the Union

Excerpt for Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters

"The Private History of a Campaign That Failed"

Excerpts from Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman

"What I saw of Shiloh"

Excerpt form Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

Excerpt for Shiloh: A Novel

"Shiloh"

Speech to the Army of the Mississippi

Excerpt from This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

"The Net Result of the Campaign was in Our Favor: Confederate Reaction to the Maryland Campaign"

Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes

"Memorys of the Past"

Emancipation Proclamation

"Men of Color, To Arms!"

Letters to James C. Conkling and Albert G. Hodges

Gettysburg Address

Reports on U.S. Colored Cavalry in Virginia

Petition to the Union Convention of Tennessee Assembled in the Capitol at Nashville

Excerpt from Jubilee

Excerpt from Been in the Storm So Long

Second Inaugural Address

Imaged of War: Firsthand Drawings and Printed Engravings

Dedication of a Monument to the Memory of the Heroes of the New Hampshire Regiment Killed in the Battle of Winchester

The United States General Hospital at Georgetown, D.C., Formerly the Union Hotel

Squirrel Rifles: Sketch at the Depot in Xenia, Ohio

Battle of Pittsburgh Landing, Shiloh, Tennessee: Centre, Sunday Morning

Citizen volunteers assisting wounded int he field of battle

Colored Troops Under General Wild Liberating Slaves in North Carolina.