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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
In 1968, when I was in second or third grade, my parents joined the Book-of-the-Month Club and allowed me to choose a few of the promotional books they received for a penny. I chose Bruce Catton’s magnificent three-volume history of the Army of the Potomac—books far, far beyond my capacity to read or comprehend at the time. But when I look at them on my shelf today, they remind me how enduring my interest has been in Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. My desire to indulge this fascination was the motivation behind this book.
Although this was a labor of love, at many points along the way the emphasis was on “labor.” I would never have finished without the generous support of my patrons at Time magazine (Rick Stengel, John Huey, Nancy Gibbs, and Michael Duffy) and, earlier, at The Washington Post (Don Graham, Leonard Downie, and Phil Bennett).
It is widely said that books no longer get edited, but it is my great fortune to know that this is not always true. At Henry Holt, George Hodgman helped me launch this
project. Then John Sterling—perhaps the world’s most patient man—passed his careful eye over every sentence. Even then, Jolanta Benal dug into the pages and found so much that we missed. At every stage, my publisher’s devotion to this project was a gift and an honor. Thanks, Esther Newberg, for matching me with them.
I further imposed on a number of others to read the manuscript, and all of them came through with sharp-eyed advice. They made this book better than it would have been otherwise: Joel Achenbach, Trent Jones, Kate Masur, Bob Richardson, Tom Shroder, John Stauffer, Mike Stradinger, and Gene Weingarten. Where imperfections remain, the fault is mine.
The helpful staff of the Library of Congress not only guided me through that incomparable resource, they also provided me with an office where I wrote one failed opening after another.
A number of historians listened to my ideas and offered encouragement. Some may not remember ever crossing my path, and none can be blamed for anything here. But I am mindful of their kindness: David Blight, Gabor Borritt, Diane Burke, Orville Burton, Jonathan Earle, Adam Green, Mark Grimsley, Harold Holzer, Michael Musick, and Thomas Schwartz.
As always, I have been borne up by my friends, whose support took many forms. They gave me quiet havens to work, listened patiently to my droning lectures, bolstered my confidence, covered for my absences as a parent. This book took so long, and there were so many that I can’t name them all, but my thanks to: Henry Allen, Kevin Baker, Beverly and Bucky Brooks, Carl Cannon, Peter Carlson, Doug and Madelyn Dalgleish, Annie Dillard, Gus and Elinor Eisemann, Tom Frail, Michael Grunwald, Lisa and Randy Hendricks, Roscoe Hill, Brad and Colleen Honnold, Tony Horwitz, Steve Jennings, Steve Kraske, Josh and Tess Lewis, Larka and Hatch McCray, Eileen Mackevich, Scott and Cindy Padon, John Pancake, Jason Pottenger, Adam Sachs, Maralee Schwartz, Al Simmons, Peter Slevin, Jim and Christy Somerville, Mit Spears and Kyle Gibson, Carrie and Tom Wagstaff, the Scribblers (Rick Atkinson, David Maraniss, and Rafe Sagalyn), the Von Drehles and the Balls, the guys in the book club, John Goldberg, who caught the cancer, and Dan Holmes, who killed it.
To Sally Jenkins: “thank you” falls so far short.
To Karen and the kids: we did it.
INDEX
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abolitionists
British
Adams, Charles Francis
Agriculture Department
Alabama
Alabama (Confederate cruiser)
Albert, Prince Consort of England
Alexandria, Virginia
American Colonization Society
American Red Cross
Andrew, John
Antietam, Battle of (Sharpsburg)
Appalachian mountains
Appler, Jesse
Ariel (steamer)
Arkansas
Arkansas (Confederate ironclad)
Arlington (Lee estate)
arms smuggling
arms supplies
Army of the Cumberland
Army of the Ohio
Army of the Potomac. See also McClellan, George B.; and specific battles, campaigns, and commanders
Antietam’s impact on
corps commanders and
desertions and
Emancipation Proclamation and
failure of, to aid Pope
failures of, in summer
McClellan advance toward Richmond and
McClellan in Maryland with
mutiny threat and
Peninsula retreat and
position of, in 1863
recruitment and 216
reorganization of
Seven Days’ impact on
size of
strength of, at Fredericksburg
troops on leave
Army of the Tennessee
Army of Virginia
reorganized under Halleck and Pope
Pope pushes south
Aspinwall, William
Atlantic Monthly
Baker, Edward
Ball’s Bluff, Battle of
Baltimore American
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore riots
Banks, Nathaniel
Barlow, Samuel
Barnard, William
Barton, Clara
Bates, Edward
“Battle Hymn of the Republic” (Howe)
Beauregard, P.G.T.
Belmont, Battle of
Benjamin, Judah
Bennett, James Gordon
Benton, Thomas Hart
Berkeley Plantation
Bierce, Ambrose
Blair, Francis, Sr.
Blair, Montgomery
Blondin (Jean-François Gravelet)
Bloss, John
Boonsboro, Maryland
border states
Confederate drive into
Emancipation Proclamation and
Bragg, Braxton
Bright, John
British Liberal Party
British Parliament
British Royal Navy
Brooks, Noah
Brown, Charles Farrar
Brown, John
Browning, Eliza
Browning, Orville Hickman
Lincoln’s friendship with
Seward resignation and
Supreme Court and
Buchanan, Franklin
Buchanan, James
Buckingham, Catharinus
Buckner, Simon Bolivar
Buell, Don Carlos
fired
foraging and
Kentucky and
Shiloh and
Bullitt, Cuthbert
Bull Run. See Manassas
Bunch, Robert
Bureau of Ordnance
Burnside, Ambrose
fired
replaces McClellan
Butler, Benjamin Franklin
Butler, Picayune
cabinet
appointments to
Emancipation Proclamation and
McClellan firing and
Seward resignation crisis and
Cairo, Illinois
California
California, University of, at Berkeley
Cameron, Simon
Campbell, Quinton
Canada
Cannon, LaGrand
Carroll, W. C.
Carter, Robert “King”
Casey, Silas
Catton, Bruce
Chancellorsville, Battle of
Chandler, Zachariah
Channing, William Ellery
Charleston, South Carolina
Chase, Kate
Chase, Salmon
ambitions of
cabinet discord and
cotton and
Emancipation Proclamation and
McClellan and
Norfolk campaign and
paper money and
Seward resignation crisis and
Seward rivalry and
slavery and
taxes and
Treasury bonds and
Union rallies and
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Chesapeake Bay
Chestnut, Mary Boykin
Chicago Tribune
Chickahominy River
Chickasaw Bluffs, Battle of
Chilton, R. H.
Chiriqui colony
Churchill, Winston
Civil War
1862 as key year of
break out of
Britain and
casualties and
Fredericksburg and outcome of
hard war–soft war debate and
novice armies and
outlook for, at beginning of 1863
prosperity after
public pessimism and
Shiloh as turning point in
; slavery as cause of
two separate nations vs.
Clarksville, Tennessee, ironworks
Clay, Cassius Marcellus
Clay, Henry
Cobden, Richard
Colchester, Charles J.
Collamer, Jacob
colonization
Columbus, Kentucky (“Gibraltar of the West”)
Confederate Army. See also specific battles, campaigns, and officers
border states and
draft and
erosion of, by 1863
hard-war policy and
Lee takes command of
Lincoln’s relatives and
Manassas as stronghold of
military strategy of
multiple campaigns vs.
Shiloh and determination of
size and strength of
slavery and
western supply lines and
Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
Confederate Congress
Confederate States of America
1862 as key year of
loyal slave states and
Europe and
economic disadvantages of
fault lines in terrain of
Taney and
Confiscation Act, Second (1862)
Congress (Union gunboat)
Contraband Relief Association of Washington
contrabands. See slaves, escaped
Conway, Moncure
Cook, John
Cooke, Philip
Copperheads
Corcoran, W. W.
Corinth, Mississippi
Battle of
capture of
Cornell University
cotton
Couch, Darius
Cox, Samuel
Crisfield, John
Cross Keys, Battle of
Crotzer, Henry W.
Cumberland River
Cumberland (Union gunboat)
Curtin, Andrew
Curtis, Samuel
Custis, George Washington Parke
Dahlgren, John
Dahlgren, Ulric
Daily National Republican
Dana, Richard Henry
Daniel, Peter
Davis, David Brion
Davis, Jefferson
border states and
Britain and
family evacuates Richmond
Lee and
McClellan and
New Orleans and
railroad and
Dawes, Henry L.
Dayton, William
Delaware
Deming, Henry
Democratic Party
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