CONTENTS

[CONTENTS]

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

[I. EMANCIPATION AND POLITICS]

[II. THE SECOND ACT OF THE MCCLELLAN DRAMA]

[III. THE THIRD AND CLOSING ACT OF THE MCCLELLAN DRAMA]

[IV. THE AUTUMN ELECTIONS OF 1862, AND THE PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION]

[V. BATTLES AND SIEGES: DECEMBER, 1862 — DECEMBER, 1863]

[VI. SUNDRIES]

[VII. THE TURN OF THE TIDE]

[VIII. RECONSTRUCTION]

[IX. RENOMINATION]

[X. MILITARY SUCCESSES, AND THE REËLECTION OF THE PRESIDENT]

[XI. THE END COMES INTO SIGHT: THE SECOND INAUGURATION]

[XII. EMANCIPATION COMPLETED]

[XIII. THE FALL OF RICHMOND, AND THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN]

[INDEX]