Summary
"This book details major events of the U.S. Civil War, as well as the war's cultural impact"--Provided by publisher. Full description
- The two sides in the Civil War
- Slavery in America
- A nation divided
- Abraham Lincoln for president
- Secession
- Fort Sumter attacked
- Raw recruits
- The Battle of Bull Run
- Robert E. Lee, genral and gentleman
- Lincoln's generals
- The Battle of the Ironclads
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- Black soldiers
- Tragedy at Chancellorsville
- Civil War authors
- Gettysburg
- The draft riots
- Unconditional surrender Grant
- The Gettysburg Address
- Angels of the battlefield
- "Dearest wife" : soldiers' letters home
- The home front, North and South
- "Damn the torpedoes!"
- Sherman's March to the Sea
- The election of 1864
- Battles in the backyard
- Surrender at Appomattox
- The president is shot!
- The ashes of war
- Unfinished business : Reconstruction
- Civil rights and wrongs
- Glossary
- The central players
- Timeline.