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Title The Civil War : the third year told by those who lived it / Brooks D. Simpson, editor.

Publication Info. New York : The Library of America, [2013]
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Description xxix, 905 pages : color maps ; 20 cm.
Series The Library of America ; 234
Library of America ; 234.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Edmund DeWitt Patterson: journal, January 20, 1863 / Picket duty and snowballs: Virginia, January, 1863 -- Theodore A. Dodge: journal, January 21-24, 1863 / The mud march: Virginia, January, 1863 -- Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., January 23, 1863 / Emancipation and public opinion: London, January, 1863 -- George G. Meade to Margaret Meade, January 23, 26, and 28, 1863 / A change in command: Virginia, January, 1863 -- Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863 / Advising a new commander: Washington, D.C., February, 1863 -- John A. Andrew to Francis Shaw, January 30, 1863 / Raising a black regiment: Massachusetts, January, 1863 -- William Parker Cutler: diary, February 2 and 9, 1863 / Debating black soldiers: Washington, D.C., February, 1863 -- George Templeton Strong: diary, February 3-5, 1863 / "These be dark blue days" : New York, February, 1863 -- Oliver W. Norton to Edwin Norton, February 6, 1863 / "The soldier's pest" : Virginia, February, 1863 -- Robert E. Lee to Mary Lee, February 8, 1863 / Short rations: Virginia, February, 1863 -- Robert Gould Shaw to Annie Haggerty, February 8, 1863 / Accepting a colonelcy: Virginia, February, 1863 -- Richard Cobden to Charles Sumner, February 13, 1863 / Emancipation and intervention: London, February, 1863 -- Isaac Funk: speech in the Illinois State Senate, February 14, 1863 / "These traitors right here" : Springfield, February, 1863 -- Taylor Peirce to Catharine Peirce, February 16, 1863 / "His wife crying over him": Missouri, February, 1863 -- William T. Sherman to Thomas Ewing, Sr., February 17, 1863, and to John Sherman, February 18, 1863 / The menace of the press: Louisiana, February, 1863 -- Clement L. Vallandigham: speech in Congress, February 23, 1863 / Opposing conscription: Washington, D.C., February, 1863 -- Samuel W. Fiske to the Springfield Republican, February 25, 1863 / Vile and traitorous resolutions: Virginia, February, 1863 -- Charles C. Jones, Jr. to Charles C. Jones, Sr., and Mary Jones, March 3, 1863 / Defending Fort McAllister: Georgia, March, 1863 -- Charles C. Jones, Sr., to Charles C. Jones, Jr., March 4, 1863 / Fight more manfully than ever: Georgia, March, 1863 -- Harriet Jacobs to Lydia Maria Child, March 18, 1863 / Black refugees: Virginia, March, 1863 -- William Henry Harrison Clayton to Nide and Rachel Pugh, March 26, 1863 / Unionist refugees: Missouri, March, 1863 -- Henry W. Halleck to Ulysses S. Grant, March 31, 1863 / Withdrawing slaves from the enemy: Washington, D.C., March, 1863 -- Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, April 1, 1863 / The Army before Vicksburg: Louisiana, March, 1863 -- Frederick Douglass: why should a colored man enlist?, April, 1863 / A war for emancipation: April, 1863 -- Jefferson Davis to William M. Brooks, April 2, 1863 / Defending General Pemberton: Virginia, April, 1863 -- John B. Jones: diary, April 2-4, 1863 / The Richmond bread riot: Virginia, April, 1863 -- Whitelaw Reid to the Cincinnati Gazette, April 4, 1863 / The necessity of fighting: April, 1863 -- Charles S. Wainwright: Diary, April 5-12, 1863 / Lincoln Reviews the Army: Virginia, April 1863 -- Francis Lieber: No Party Now, But All for Our Country, April 11, 1863 / Loyalty to the Nation: New York, April 1863 -- Catharine Peirce to Taylor Peirce, April 12, 1863 / Home and family news: Iowa, April, 1863 -- James A. Connolly to Mary Dunn Connolly, April 20, 1863 / Fighting goes like fortunes: Tennessee, April, 1863 -- Ulysses S. Grant to Jesse Root Grant, April 21, 1863 / "I am doing my best": Louisiana, April, 1863 -- David Hunter to Jefferson Davis, April 23, 1863 / Threatening retaliation: South Carolina, April, 1863 -- Kate Stone: journal, April 25, 1863 / "A night and day of terror": Louisiana, March-April, 1863 -- Wilbur Fisk to The Green Mountain Freeman, April 26, 1863 / Waiting to march: Virginia, April, 1863 -- John Hampden Chamberlayne to Martha Burwell Chamberlayne, April 30, 1863 / "Rain, mud & night": Virginia, April, 1863 -- Sarah Morgan: diary, April 30, 1863 / Expelling "enemies": Louisiana, April, 1863 -- Samuel Pickens: diary, May 1-3, 1863 / Battle of Chancellorsville: Virginia, May, 1863 -- Jedediah Hotchkiss: journal, May 2-6, 1863 -- "Disorder reigned supremen": Virginia, May, 1863 -- Taylor peirce to Catharine Peirce, May 4, 1863 / Battle of Port Gibson: Mississippi, May, 1863 -- Catherine Edmondston: diary, May 5-7, 9 and 11-12, 1863 / "The nation's idol": North Carolina, May, 1863 -- Charles F. Morse to his family, May 7, 1863 / The great Joe Hooker: Virginia, May, 1863 -- Samuel W. Fiske to the Springfield Republican, May 9 and 11, 1863 / Disgraceful and disastrous defeat: Virginia, May, 1863 -- Charles B. Wilder: testimony before the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, May 9, 1863 / Escaping slavery: Virginia, May, 1863 -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson: journal, May 10, 1863 / Commanding a black regiment: South Carolina, May, 1863 -- Edward O. Guerrant: diary, May 15, 1863 / Mourning Stonewall Jackson: Kentucky, May, 1863 -- George Richard Browder: diary, May 17-26, 1863 / Swearing allegiance: Kentucky, May, 1863 -- Harper's Weekly: the arrest of Vallandigham, May 30, 1863 / The people can be trusted: New York, May, 1863 -- Oliver W. Norton to Elizabeth Norton Poss, June 8, 1863 / Meeting "Secesh" civilians: Virginia, June, 1863 -- Robert Gould Shaw to Annie Haggerty Shaw, June 9-13, 1863 / The burning of Darien: Georgia, June, 1863 -- William Winters to Harriete Winters, June 9, 1863 / Siege of Vicksburg: Mississippi, June, 1863 -- Matthew M. Miller to his aunt, June 10, 1863 / Battle of Miliken's Bend: Louisiana, June, 1863 -- Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, June 10, 1863 / Dividing and weakening the North: Virginia, June, 1863 -- William T. Sherman to John T. Swayne, June 11, 1863 -- The hand of destruction: Mississippi, June, 1863 -- Henry C. Whelan to Mary Whelan, June 11, 1863 / Battle of Brandy Station: Virginia, June, 1863 -- Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and others, June 12, 1863 / The constitution in wartime: Washington, D.C., June, 1863 -- William Henry Harrison Clayton to Amos and Grace Clayton, June 18, 1863, and to George Washington Clayton and John Quincy Adams Clayton, June 28, 1863 / The Vicksburg Siege continues: Mississippi, June, 1863 -- Charles B. Haydon: Journal, June 20, 1863 / A soldier never knows: Mississippi, June, 1863 -- William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, June 27, 1863 / They have sowed the wind: Mississippi, June, 1863 -- Edmund DeWitt Patterson: Journal, June 24-30, 1863 / Invading the North: Maryland and Pennsylvania, June, 1863 -- Edmund DeWitt Patterson: Journal, June 24-30, 1863 / A very different race: Pennsylvania, June, 1863 -- Alpheus S. Williams to Irene and Mary Williams, June 29, 1863 / Changing commanders: Maryland, June, 1863 -- Samuel W. Fiske to the Springfield Republican, June 30, 1863 / The business of war: Maryland, June, 1863.
Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Diary, July 1-4, 1863 / Battle of Gettysburg: Pennsylvania, July, 1863 -- Samuel Pickens: diary, July 1-3, 1863 / What terrible work: Pennsylvania, July, 1863 -- Francis Adams Donaldson: Narrative of Gettysburg, July 2-3, 1863 / This trial of the nerves: Pennsylvania, July, 1863 -- Elizabeth Blair Lee to Samuel Phillips Lee, July 3 and 4-5, 1863 / News of Gettysburg: Washington, D.C., July, 1863 -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain to George B. Herendeen, July 6, 1863 / Defending Little Round Top: Pennsylvania, July, 1863 -- Henry Livermore Abbott to Josiah Gardner Abbott, July 6, 1863 / Defeating Pickett's charge: Pennsylvania, July, 1863 -- Lafayette McLaws to Emily McLaws, July 7, 1863 / A series of terrible engagements: Pennsylvania, July, 1863 -- Cornelia Hancock to her cousin, July 7, 1863, and to Ellen Hancock child, July 8, 1863 / A nurse at Gettysburg: Pennsylvania, July, 1863 -- Catharine Peirce to Taylor Peirce, July 5, 1863 / Celebrating the fourth: Iowa, July, 1863 -- William Henry Harrison Clayton to Amos and Grace Clayton, July 5, 1863 / Vicksburg surrenders: Mississippi, July, 1863 -- William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, July 5, 1863 / The event of the war: Mississippi, July, 1863 -- William Winters to Harriet Winters, July 6, 1863 / A forlorn and forsaken place: Mississippi, July, 1863 -- Benjamin B. French: journal, July 8, 1863 / The glorious result: Washington, D.C., July, 1863 -- Catherine Edmondston: diary, July 8-11, 1863 / War news and rumors: North Carolina, July, 1863 -- George Hamilton Perkins to Susan G. Perkins, July 29, 1863 / Fighting on the Mississippi: Louisiana, July, 1863 -- Charles B. Haydon: Journal, July 11, 1863 / I must die very soon: Mississippi, July, 1863 -- John Hay: diary, July 11-15, 1863 / The Prest was deeply grieved: Washington, D.C., July, 1863 -- Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, July 13, 1863 / Acknowledging a victory: Washington, D.C., July, 1863 -- Abraham Lincoln to George G. Meade, July 14, 1863 / Your golden opportunity is gone: Washington, D.C., July, 1863 -- Samuel Pickens: Diary, July 14, 1863 / Crossing the Potomac: Maryland and West Virginia, July, 1863 -- George Templeton Strong: diary, July 13-17, 1863 / The draft riots: New York, July, 1863 -- Emma Holmes: diary, July 16-19, 1863 / Battle of charleston Harbor: South Carolina, July, 1863 -- Walter H. Taylor to Richard Taylor, July 17, 1863 / We crippled them severely: Virginia, July, 1863 -- James Henry Gooding to the New Bedford Mercury, July 20, 1863 / Battle of Fort Wagner: Southern Carolina, July, 1863 -- Lewis Douglass to Amelia Loguen, July 20, 1863 / Not a man flinched: South Carolina, July, 1863 -- Charlotte Forten: journal, July 20-24, 1863 / Mourning Colonel Shaw: South Carolina, July, 1863 -- Maria Lydig Daly: diary, July 23, 1863 / Four days of great anxiety: New York, July, 1863 -- Herman Melville: The House-top / The Atheist roar of riot: New York, July, 1863 -- Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., July 23, 1863 / News of victory: London, July, 1863 -- George G. Meade to Henry W. Halleck, July 31, 1863 / Justifying a decision: Virginia, July, 1863 -- Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, July 31, 1863 / I am alone to blame: Virginia, July, 1863 -- Hannah Johnson to Abraham Lincoln, July 31, 1863 / What is right: New York, July, 1863 -- Frederick Douglass to George L. Stearns, August 1, 1863 / Refusing to recruit: New York, August, 1863 -- Frederick Douglass: The Commander-in-Chief and His Black Soldiers, August 1863 / Demanding retaliation: New York, August, 1863 -- Walt Whitman to Lewis Kirk Brown, August 1, 11, and 15, 1863 / Visiting the wounded: Washington, D.C., August, 1863 -- George E. Stephens to the Weekly Anglo-African, August 7, 1863 / Demanding equal pay: South Carolina, August 1863 -- Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, August 8, 1863 / An offer to resign: Virginia, August 1863 -- Jefferson Davis to Robert E. Lee, August 11, 1863 / Refusing a resignation: Virginia, August, 1863 -- Wilbur Fisk to The Green Mountain Freeman, August 10, 1863 / Pilaging wood: Virginia, August, 1863 -- Frederick Douglass to George L. Stearns, August 12, 1863 / Meeting the President: Washington, D.C., August, 1863 -- William H. Neblett to Elizabeth Scott Neblett, August 18, 1863 / Demoralization at Galveston: Texas, August, 1863 -- Richard Cordley: Narrative of the Lawrence Massacre / Such a scene of horror: Kansas, August, 1863 -- Ulysses S. Grant to Abraham Lincoln, August 23, 1863 / The impact of black troops: Illinois, August 1863 -- Jonathan Worth to Jesse G. Henshaw, August 24, 1863 / Peace meetings: North Carolina, August, 1863 -- John M. Schofield to Thomas Ewing Jr., August 25, 1863 / The most radical remedy: Missouri, August, 1863 --Abraham Lincoln to James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863 / Emancipation and black soldiers: Washington, D.C., August 1863 -- Ulysses S. Grant to Elihu B. Washburne, August 30, 1863 / Slavery is already dead: Mississippi, August, 1863 -- Charles Francis Adams to Lord Russell, September 5, 1863 / The Laird Rams: London, September 1863 -- Charles C. Jones Jr. to Mary Jones, September 6 and 9, 1863 / The Siege of Charleston: South Carolina, September 1863 -- Raphael Semmes: journal, September 16-24, 1863 / The Raider Alabama: Cape Colony, September 1863 -- William T. Sherman to Henry W. Halleck, September 17, 1863 / Reconstruction: Mississippi, September, 1863 -- William W. Heartsill: Journal, September 17-28, 1863 / Battle of Chickamauga: Georgia, September 1863 -- John S. Jackman: Diary, September 18-21, 1863 / Lying so thick over the field: Georgia, September 1863 -- Kate Cumming: Journal, September 28-October 1, 1863 / The nameless dead: Georgia, September-October, 1863 -- Jefferson Davis: Speech at Missionary Ridge, October 10, 1863 / Tennessee, October, 1863 -- Oliver W. Norton to Elizabeth Norton Poss, October 15, 1863 / Becoming an officer: Washington, D.C., October, 1863 -- Jefferson Davis: Speech at Wilmington, November 5, 1863 / North Carolina, November, 1863 -- Walter H. Taylor to Bettie Saunders, November 15, 1863 / We have no fears: Virginia, November, 1863 -- Cornelia Hancock to an Unknown Correspondent, November 15, 1863 / Contraband hospital: Washington, D.C., November, 1863 -- John Hay: Diary, November 18-19, 1863 / A Trip to Gettysburg: Pennsylvania, November 1863 -- Abraham Lincoln: Address at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 / Pennsylvania, November, 1863 -- Petition from the Colored Citizens of Beaufort, November 20, 1863 / Protesting impressment: North Carolina, November, 1863 -- William Wrenshall Smith: Journal, November 13-25, 1863 / Battle of Chattanooga: Tennessee, November, 1863 -- Montgomery C. Meigs: Journal, November 23-25, 1863 / Wild with excitement: Tennessee, November, 1863 -- James A. Connolly to Mary Dunn Connolly, November 26 and December 7, 1863 / The grandest sight I ever saw: Tennessee and Georgia, November, 1863 -- Theodore Lyman: Journal, November 26-December 2, 1863 / The Mine Run Campaign: Virginia, November-December, 1863.
Wilbur Fisk to the Green Mountain Freeman, November 29 and December 8, 1863 / A soldier at Mine Run: Virginia, November-December, 1863 -- George G. Meade to Margaret Meade, December 2 and 7, 1863 / My conscience is clear: Virginia, December, 1863 -- Frederick Douglass: Our Work Is Not Done, December 4, 1863 / Every free man a voter: Pennsylvania, December, 1863 -- Frederick Douglass: Our work Is not done, December 4, 1863 / Every free man a voter: Pennsylvania, December, 1863 -- Abraham Lincoln: annual message to Congress, December 8, 1863 / Washington, D.C., December, 1863 -- Abraham Lincoln: Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, December 8, 1863 / Washington, D.C., December, 1863 -- George Templeton Strong: Diary, December 11-13, 1863 / Subduing the South: New York, December, 1863 -- Catherine Edmondston: Diary, December 11, 1863 / One misfortune follows another: North Carolina, December, 1863 -- Mary Chesnut: Diary, January 1, 1864 / God help my country: Virginia, January, 1864 -- Judith W. McGuire: Diary, January 1, 1864 / And yet we must go on: Virginia, January, 1864 -- Patrick R. Cleburne: Memorandum on Emancipation and Enlisting Black Soldiers, January 2, 1864 / Sacrificing slavery: Georgia, January, 1864 -- William T. Sherman to Roswell M. Sawyer, January 31, 1864 / They have appealed to war: Mississippi, January, 1864 -- Lois Bryan Adams to the Detroit Advertiser and Tribune, February 8 and 23, 1864 / Meeting 'Father Abraham': Washington, D.C., February, 1864 -- Francis J. Higginson to John A. Dahlgren, February 18, 1864 / Sinking of the Housatonic: South Carolina, February, 1864 -- James H. Tomb: Notes on the H.L. Hunley, January 1865 / A submarine torpedo boat: South Carolina, October 1863-February 1864 -- Judith W. McGuire: Diary, February 28, 1864 / A soldier's widow: Virginia, February, 1864 -- John Paris: Sermon preached at Kinston, February 28, 1864 / Hanging deserters: North Carolina, February, 1864 -- Oliver W. Norton to Elizabeth Norton Poss, February 29, 1864 / Battle of Olustee: Florida, February, 1864 -- John B. Jones: Diary, March 1-2 and 5, 1864 / The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid: Virginia, March, 1864 -- Ulysses S. Grant to William T. Sherman, March 4, 1864 / Summoned to Washington: Tennessee, March, 1864 -- William T. Sherman to Ulysses S. Grant, March 10, 1864 / Come out West: Tennessee, March, 1864.
Summary Spanning the crucial months from January 1863 to March 1864, this third volume of The Library of America's highly acclaimed four volume series presents an incomparable portrait of a nation at war with itself while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union closer to victory and slavery closer to destruction. It brings together more than 140 contemporary letters, diary entries, speeches, articles, messages, and poems by more than eighty participants and observers, among them Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Mary Chesnut, Clement Vallandigham, Henry Adams, Charlotte Forten, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, and George Templeton Strong, as well as Union officers Robert Gould Shaw, Charles B. Haydon, and Henry Livermore Abbott; Confederate diarists Catherine Edmondston, Kate Stone, and Judith McGuire; and Alabama soldier Samuel Pickens, Iowa housewife Catharine Peirce, Kentucky preacher George Richard Browder, and Kansas clergyman Richard Cordley. The selections include vivid and haunting eyewitness narratives of some of the war's most famous battles-Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Fort Wagner, Chickamauga, Chattanooga-as well as firsthand accounts of the merciless guerrilla war in Missouri and Kansas; the Richmond bread riot and the New York draft riots; the controversies surrounding the use of black soldiers and the Lincoln administration's curtailment of civil liberties; and the struggles of civilians both black and white to survive increasingly harsh wartime conditions.
Biography Brooks D. Simpson, editor, is Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is the author of Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868 and Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865, and the co-editor of Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-65.
Subject Civil war.
Civil war.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
Genre/Form Personal narratives.
Personal narratives.
Added Author Simpson, Brooks D., editor.
ISBN 9781598531978
1598531972