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245 04 The Civil War :|bthe final year told by those who lived it
/|cAaron Sheehan-Dean, editor.
264 1 New York :|bThe Library of America,|c2014.
300 xxvii, 886 pages :|bcolor maps ;|c21 cm.
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
490 1 The Library of America ;|v250
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 "Yankee wickedness": North Carolina, March 1864 /
Catherine Edmondston: Diary, March 8, 1864 -- Occupied
Knoxville: Tennessee, March 1864 / Ellen Renshaw House:
Diary, March 9-11, 19, 1864 -- Northern industry:
Pennsylvania, March 1864 / Scientific American: New
rolling mills in Pittsburgh, March 26, 1864 -- Opening a
freedmen's school: Virginia, March 1864 / Harriet Ann
Jacobs and Louisa M. Jacobs to Lydia Maria Child, March 26,
1864 -- "My irons were taken off": Tennessee, March 1864 /
Jim Heiskell: statement regarding his escape from slavery,
March 30, 1864 -- Hungry families: North Carolina, April
1864 / Susan C. Woolker to Zebulon B. Vance, April 3, 1864
-- Planning the spring campaign: Washington, D.C., April
1864 / Ulysses S. Grant to William T. Sherman, April 4,
1864 -- "A tear of sorrow": Louisiana, April 1864 /
William Winters to Harriet Winters, April 4, 1864 --
Freedom and slavery: Virginia, April 1864 / Wilbur Fisk to
The Green Mountain Freeman, April 7, 1864 -- An expulsion
order: Tennessee, April 1864 / Ellen Renshaw House: Diary,
April 8, 1864 -- "A proud day": Washington, D.C., April
1864 / Lois Bryan Adams to the Detroit Advertiser and
Tribune, April 9, 1864 -- The Fort Pillow massacre:
Tennessee, April 1864 / Achilles V. Clark to Judith Porter
and Henrietta Ray, April 14, 1864 -- Predicting Union
plans: Virginia, April 1864 / Robert E. Lee to Jefferson
Davis, April 15, 1864 -- "Insatiate as fiends": April 1864
/ The New York Times: The black flag, April 16, 1864 --
Defining liberty and considering retribution: Maryland,
April 1864 / Abraham Lincoln: Address at Baltimore
Sanitary Fair, April 18, 1864 -- "Take no prisoners":
April 1864 / R.H.C. to The Christian Recorder, April 30,
1864 -- Debating retaliation: Washington, D.C., May 1864 /
Gideon Welles: Diary, May 3, 5-6, 1864 -- Protesting slave
impressment: Alabama, May 1864 / Petition from the
Slaveholders of Randolph County, Alabama, May 6, 1864 --
"Our right cause": Virginia, May 1864 / Samuel W. Fiske to
the Springfield Republican, May 3, 1864 -- Battle of the
Wilderness: Virginia, May 1864 / Theodore Lyman: Journal,
May 4-7, 1864 -- "The disaster came": Virginia, May 1864 /
Wilbur Fisk to The Green Mountain Freeman, May 9, 1864 --
"Another struggle with death": Virginia, May 1864 / J.F.J.
Caldwell: from The History of a Brigade of South
Carolinians -- Grant turns south: Virginia, May 1864 /
Horace Porter: from Campaigning with Grant -- "Strife in
the pines": Virginia, May 1864 / Herman Melville: The
Armies of the Wilderness -- "If it takes all summer":
Virginia, May 1864 / Ulysses S. Grant to Edwin M. Stanton
and to Henry W. Halleck, May 11, 1864 -- Battle of
Spotsylvania: Virginia, May 1864 / Charles Harvey Brewster
to Martha Brewster, May 11, 1864 ; and to Martha Brewster,
May 15, 1864 --
505 0 The Bloody Angle: Virginia, May 1864 / J.F.J. Caldwell:
from The History of a Brigade of South Carolinians --
Whipping a slavemaster: Virginia, May 1864 / Edward A.
Wild to Robert S. Davis, May 12, 1864 -- Battle of Resaca:
Georgia, May 1864 / James A. Connolly to Mary Dunn
Connolly, May 15 and 20, 1864 -- "These sad fields":
Georgia, May 1864 / Alpheus S. Williams to Mary Williams,
May 20, 1864 -- Battle of Pickett's Mill: Georgia, May
1864 / Samuel T. Foster: Diary, May 23-28, 1864 --
Proclaiming victory: Louisiana, May 1864 / Richard Taylor:
General Orders No. 44, May 23, 1864 -- "I am scared most
to death": Virginia, May 1864 / Charles Harvey Brewster to
Mary Brewster, May 23, 1864 ; to Martha Brewster, May 24,
1864 ; and to Mattie Brewster, May 26, 1864 --
Andersonville Prison: Georgia, May 1864 / Eugene Forbes:
Diary, May 24-27, 1864 -- Appraising Grant: Virginia, May
1864 / Charles Francis Adams Jr. to Charles Francis Adams,
May 29, 1864 -- Assessing black troops: May 1864 / Lorenzo
Thomas to Henry Wilson, May 30, 1864 -- Behind the Union
lines: Virginia, May-June 1864 / Cornelia Hancock to her
sister, May 28, May 31-June 3, 1864 -- Battle of Cold
Harbor: Virginia, May-June 1864 / Frank Wilkeson: from
Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the
Potomac -- "Born anew in blood and tears": New York, June
1864 / Maria Lydig Daly: Diary, June 8, 1864 -- "The work
of death": Georgia, June 1864 / Robert Patrick to Alonzo
Lewis, June 9, 1864 -- Ruined plantations: Virginia, June
1864 / Judith W. McGuire: Diary, June 11, 1864 --
"Miserable long dreary days": Virginia, June 1864 /
Charles Harvey Brewster to Mattie Brewster, June 11, 1864
-- Completing "the great idea": London, June 1864 /
Charles Francis Adams to Charles Francis Adams Jr., June
17, 1864 -- Fighting the Alabama: the English Channel,
June 1864 / Charles B. Fisher: Diary, June 19-21, 1864 --
Battle of Petersburg: Virginia, June 1864 / Wilbur Fisk to
The Green Mountain Freeman, June 19, 1864 -- "Butchered
time and again": Virginia, June 1864 / Stephen Minot Weld
to Stephen Minot Weld Sr., June 21, 1864 -- "A horrid,
hellish dream": Virginia, June 1864 / George E. Chamberlin
to Ephraim Chamberlin, June 27, 1864 -- Life at
Andersonville: Georgia, June 1864 / Eugene Forbes: Diary,
June 13-20, 1864 -- The Atlanta Campaign: Georgia, June
1864 / William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, June 30,
1864 -- An appeal for negotiations: New York, July 1864 /
Horace Greeley to Abraham Lincoln, July 7, 1864 -- "An
infinity of hills": Georgia, July 1864 / John White Geary
to Mary Geary, July 8, 1864 -- Washington, D.C., July 1864
/ Abraham Lincoln: Proclamation Concerning Reconstruction,
July 8, 1864 -- Conditions for peace: Washington, D.C.,
July 1864 / Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, July 9,
1864 -- Hanging the Andersonville Raiders: Georgia, July
1864 / Eugene Forbes: Diary, July 11, 1864 -- Threatening
Washington: Maryland, July 1864 / Henry Robinson Berkeley:
Diary, July 4-13, 1864 -- The capital under attack:
Washington, D.C., July 1864 / Lois Bryan Adams to the
Detroit Advertiser and Tribune, July 13 and 15, 1864 --
Pursuing Early: Virginia, July 1864 / Ulysses S. Grant to
Henry W. Halleck, July 14, 1864 --
505 0 "The deepest shame": Washington, D.C., July 1864 / Charles
A. Dana to Ulysses S. Grant, July 15, 1864 -- "To whom it
may concern": Washington, D.C., July 1864 / Abraham
Lincoln: Offer of safe conduct for peace negotiators, July
18, 1864 -- "War to the bitter end": Canada, July 1864 /
Clement C. Clay and James P. Holcombe to Horace Greeley,
July 21, 1864 -- A meeting with Jefferson Davis: July 1864
/ James R. Gilmore to the Boston Evening Transcript, July
11, 1864 -- Fighting in the Shenandoah: Virginia, July
1864 / Henry Robinson Berkeley: Diary, July 14-14, 1864 --
Fighting for Atlanta: Georgia, July 1864 / Samuel T.
Foster: Diary, July 18-23, 1864 -- "Take my children from
those men": Massachusetts, July 1864 / John Q.A. Dennis to
Edwin M. Stanton, July 26, 1864 -- "A melancholy accident"
: Texas, July 1864 / Benjamin F. McIntyre: Diary, July 29,
1864 -- Preparing for battle: Gulf of Mexico, July 1864 /
David G. Farragut: General Orders Nos. 10 and 11, July 12
and 29, 1864 -- The Battle of the Crater: Virginia, July
1864 / Stephen Minot Weld: Diary, July 30, 1864, and
Memoir from 1912 -- "Murder them in cold blood": Virginia,
July 1864 / William Pegram to Virginia Johnson Pegram,
August 1, 1864 -- "This abominable despotism": New York,
August 1864 / C. Chauncey Burr: from The Old Guard, August
1864 -- "Retribution at last": Virginia, August 1864 /
Edgeworth Bird to Sallie Bird, August 4, 1864 -- "This
dictatorial usurpation": August 1864 / Benjamin F. Wade
and Henry Winter Davis: To the supporters of the
government, August 5, 1864 -- "Stern retaliation":
Virginia, August 1864 / Robert Garlick Hill Kean: Diary,
August 7, 1864 -- "Smoke and flame": Virginia, August 1864
/ Mathella Page Harrison: Diary, August 17, 1864 --
Washington, D.C., August 1864 / Abraham Lincoln:
Memorandum on Probable Failure of Reelection, August 23,
1864 -- Exchanging prisoners: Virginia, August 1864 /
Benjamin F. Butler to Robert Ould, August 27, 1864 --
Defending Atlanta: Georgia, August 1864 / Robert Toombs to
Alexander H. Stephens, August 30, 1864 -- "Four years of
failure": Illinois, August 1864 / Platform of the
Democratic National Convention, August 30, 1864 -- "We
must conquer": September 1864 / James R. Gilmore: Our
visit to Richmond, September 1864 -- Requesting
reinforcements: Virginia, September 1864 / Robert E. Lee
to Jefferson Davis, September 2, 1864 -- "My children is
my own": Missouri, September 1864 / Spottswood Rice to his
children and to Kitty Diggs, September 3, 1864 --
Preserving "our own race": Kentucky, September 1864 /
Thomas Bramlette to Abraham Lincoln, September 3, 1864 --
"Shouting for McClellan": Washington, D.C., September 1864
/ Gideon Welles: Diary, September 3, 1864 -- Political
advice: Ohio, September 1864 / Clement L. Vallandigham to
George B. McClellan, September 4, 1864 -- "The wrath to
come": Louisiana, September 1864 / Kate Stone: Diary,
September 5, 1864 -- "Audacious infamy": New York,
September 1864 / George Templeton Strong: Diary, September
5-8, 1864 -- Accepting the nomination: New Jersey,
September 1864 / George B. McClellan to the Democratic
Nomination Committee, September 8, 1864 -- Jonesboro and
Atlanta: Georgia, September 1864 / James A. Connolly to
Mary Dunn Connolly, September 11, 1864 --
505 0 "War is cruelty": Georgia, September 1864 / William T.
Sherman to James M. Calhoun and others, September 12, 1864
--Equal pay for black soldiers: Ohio, September 1864 /
Rachel Ann Wicker to John A. Andrew, September 12, 1864 --
A report from Mobile Bay: Alabama, September 1864 /
Alexander McKinley to Samuel Francis Du Pont, September 18,
1864 -- Battle of Winchester: Virginia, September 1864 /
Henry Robinson Berkeley: Diary, September 19, 1864 --
Georgia, September 1864 / Jefferson Davis: Speech at Macon,
September 23, 1864 -- A Cabinet resignation: Maryland,
September 1864 / Elizabeth Blair Lee to Samuel Phillips
Lee, September 1864 -- South Carolina, October 1864 /
Jefferson Davis: Speech at Columbia, October 4, 1864 -- A
call for political equality: New York, October 1864 /
Address of the Colored National Convention, October 6,
1864 -- "Make Georgia howl": Georgia, October 1864 /
William T. Sherman to Ulysses S. Grant, October 9, 1864 --
"One great desert": Virginia, October 1864 / Stephen
Dodson Ramseur to Ellen Richmond Ramseur, October 10, 1864
-- Desertion and "despotism": Virginia, October 1864 /
John B. Jones: Diary, October 10-13, 1864 -- England and
the Civil War: Delaware, October 1864 / Samuel Francis Du
Pont to William King Hall, October 13, 1864 -- War news:
North Carolina, October 1864 / Catherine Edmondston: Diary,
October 18, 1864 -- Unity and civil freedom: New York,
October 1864 / Francis Lieber: Lincoln or McClellan,
October 1864 -- Election results: New York, November 1864
/ George Templeton Strong: Diary, November 9, 1864 --
Reading a sealed paper: Washington, D.C., November 1864 /
John Hay: Diary, November 11, 1864 -- Retaliatory
executions: Virginia, November 1864 / John S. Mosby to
Philip H. Sheridan, November 11, 1864 -- A slaveowner's
deception: Maryland, November 1864 / Jane Kamper:
Statement regarding her emancipation, November 14, 1864 --
"Vox populi, vox dei": New York, November 1864 / Maria
Lydig Daly: Diary, November 15, 1864 -- Sherman's March:
Georgia, November 1864 / James A. Connolly: Diary,
November 17-23, 1864 -- "The bitter end": November 1864 /
John Wilkes Booth: "To whom it may concern," November 1864
-- Lincoln's reelection: London, November 1864 / Henry
Adams to Charles Francis Adams Jr., November 25, 1864 --
"My boy was dead": Kentucky, November 1864 / Joseph Miller
: Statement regarding his family, November 26, 1864 --
Battle of Franklin: Tennessee, November-December 1864 /
Samuel T. Foster: Diary, November 30-December 1, 1864 --
Washington, D.C., December 1864 / Abraham Lincoln: Annual
Message to Congress, December 6, 1864 -- Reports of a
slave insurrection: North Carolina, December 1864 / Henry
Nutt to Zebulon B. Vance, December 12, 1864 -- Meeting
Sherman: Georgia, December 1864 / John Chipman Gray to
John C. Ropes, December 14, 1864 -- Besieging Savannah:
Georgia, December 1864 / John White Geary to Mary Geary,
December 17, 1864 -- Union looters: Georgia, December 1864
/ Mary S. Mallard: Journal, December 15-21, 1864 -- "The
torture of loyal men": New York, January 1865 / Harper's
Weekly: Retaliation, January 8, 1865 --
505 0 "The most pernicious idea": Georgia, January 1865 / Howell
Cobb to James A. Seddon, January 8, 1865 -- "The
birthright of the South": North Carolina, January 1865 /
Catherine Edmondston: Diary, January 9, 1865 -- The right
to vote: Tennessee, January 1865 / Petition of the Colored
Citizens of Nashville to the Union Convention of Tennessee,
January 9, 1865 -- Enlisting slaves "without delay":
Virginia, January 1865 / Robert E. Lee to Andrew Hunter,
January 11, 1865 -- "To have land": Georgia, January 1865
/ Meeting of Colored Ministers with Edwin M. Stanton and
William T. Sherman, January 12, 1865 -- Land for freedmen:
Georgia, January 1865 / William T. Sherman: Special Field
Orders No. 15, January 16, 1865 -- Washington, D.C.,
January 1865 / Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States, January 31, 1865 -- "The greatest
event": Washington, D.C., February 1865 / George W. Julian
: Journal, February 1, 1865 -- Peace talks: Virginia,
February 1865 / Robert Garlick Hill Kean: Diary, February
5, 1865 -- "We must emancipate:" Virginia, February 1865 /
John H. Stringfellow to Jefferson Davis, February 8, 1865
-- "Let slavery die": Washington, D.C., February 1865 /
Henry Highland Garnet: A Memorial Discourse, February 12,
1865 -- The burning of Columbia: South Carolina, February
1865 / Emma LeConte: Diary, February 17-18, 1865 --
Confederate deserters: Virginia, March 1865 / Luther Rice
Mills to John Mills, March 2, 1865 -- Washington, D.C.,
March 1865 / Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address,
March 4, 1865 -- "A sacred effort": Washington, D.C.,
March 1865 / Frederick Douglass: from Life and Times of
Frederick Douglas -- "We have work faithful": North
Carolina, March 1865 / Roanoke Island Freedmen to Abraham
Lincoln and to Edwin M. Stanton, March 9, 1865 -- "The
death flurry of a whale": New York, March 1865 / George
Templeton Strong: Diary, March 10, 1865 -- Marching
through the Carolinas: North Carolina, March 1865 /
Alpheus S. Williams to his daughter, March 12, 1865 --
Land and votes: Washington, D.C., March 1865 / Charles
Sumner to John Bright, March 13, 1865 -- "Give me a
thousand": Kentucky, March 1865 / Frances Johnson:
Statement regarding her whipping and escape, March 25,
1865 -- "A very cruel man": Kentucky, March 1865 /
Clarissa Burdett: Statement regarding her whipping and
escape, March 27, 1865 -- "Awaiting my fate": Virginia,
April 1865 / John B. Jones: Diary, April 2, 1865 -- The
fall of Richmond: Virginia, April 1865 / Sallie Brock:
from Richmond During the War -- "Gloria in excelsis deo":
New York, April 1865 / George Templeton Strong: Diary,
April 3, 1865 -- "This peerless comrade": Virginia, April
1865 / William Gordon McCabe to Mary Pegram, April 4, 1865
-- Occupying Richmond: Virginia, April 1865 / Thomas
Morris Chester to the Philadelphia Press, April 4, 1865 --
Southern "arrogance and folly": Washington, D.C., April
1865 / Gideon Welles: Diary, April 7, 1865 -- Surrender
terms: Virginia, April 1865 / Ulysses S. Grant to Robert
E. Lee, April 9, 1865 -- A commander's farewell: Virginia,
April 1865 / Robert E. Lee: General Orders No. 9, April 10,
1865 -- Lincoln's assassination: Washington, D.C., April
1865 / Elizabeth Keckly: from Behind the Scenes -- "A
fearful, gigantic crime": New York, April 1865 / George
Templeton Strong: Diary, April 15, 1865 -- The President's
deathbed: Washington, D.C., April 1865 / Gideon Welles:
Diary, April 18, 1865 -- A political agreement: North
Carolina, April 1865 / William T. Sherman to Ulysses S.
Grant or Henry W. Halleck, April 18, 1865 -- "It is all
murder": Louisiana, April 1865 / Sarah Morgan: Diary,
April 19, 1865 -- Explaining surrender: Virginia, April
1865 / Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, April 20, 1865 --
Fleeing defeat: North Carolina, April 1865 / Jefferson
Davis to Varina Howell Davis, April 23, 1865 -- "Something
that haunted us": Virginia, April 1865 / Stephen Minot
Weld to Hannah Minot Weld, April 24, 1865 -- "What we were
fighting for": North Carolina, April-May 1865 / Samuel T.
Foster: Diary, April 18-May 4, 1865 -- "A thousand rumors"
: Georgia, May 1865 / Ellen Renshaw House: Diary, May 2,
1865 -- "He behaved so brave": Washington, D.C., May 1865
/ Walt Whitman: from Specimen Days -- "Heroes of the
sublimest conflict": May 1865 / New York Herald: The
Grandest Military Display in the World, May 24, 1865 --
The Grand Review: Washington, D.C., May 1865 / Lois Bryan
Adams to the Detroit Advertiser and Tribune, May 24 and 27,
1865 -- "All slaves are free": Texas, June 1865 / Gordon
Granger: General Orders No. 3, June 19, 1865.
520 "The final volume of this highly acclaimed four-volume
series begins with the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren
raid on Richmond in March 1864 and ends with the
proclamation of emancipation in Texas in June 1865. It
collects 160 pieces by more than one hundred participants
and observers, among them Abraham Lincoln, William T.
Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee,
Frederick Douglass ... The selections include include
vivid and haunting firsthand accounts of battles and
campaigns -- the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor,
Atlanta, the Crater, Franklin, and Sherman's march through
Georgia and the Carolinas -- as well as the Fort Pillow
massacre; the struggle to survive inside Andersonville
prison; the burning of Columbia and Richmond; the passage
of the Thirteenth Amendment; the surrender at Appomattox;
and Lincoln's assassination." -- Publisher description.
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