Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War 2

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Title from spine Includes Memoranda on the Civil War: letters to readers from featured correspondents and authors arguing points of content, etc. ; these pieces are interspersed among the other content of the compilation Abraham Lincoln, a history: Lincoln as pioneer / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Hooker's appointment and removal / Z. -- The battle of the first day at Gettysburg / Henry J. Hunt -- The hand of Lincoln / Edmund C. Stedman -- Lincoln's home life in Washington / by Leslie J. Perry -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Lincoln as soldier, surveyor, and politician / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- The second day at Gettysburg / Henry J. Hunt -- "Round Top" and the Confederate right and Gettysburg / E.M. Law -- Lincoln as a lawyer / by Jesse W. Weik -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Lincoln in Springfield / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- From the peninsula to Antietam / George B. McClellan -- McClellan at the head of the Grand Army / Warren Lee Goss -- The battle of South Mountain, or Boonsboro / D.H. Hill -- Stonewall Jackson in Maryland / Henry Kyd Douglas -- Harper's Ferry and Sharpsburg / John G. Walker -- The invasion of Maryland / James Longstreet -- Antietam scenes / Charles Carleton Coffin -- In the wake of battle: a woman's recollections of Shepherdstown during Antietam week / Maria Blunt -- Fighting Farragut below New Orleans / Beverley Kennon -- Incidents of the occupation of New Orleans / Albert Kautz -- Farragut's demands for the surrender of New Orleans / Marion A. Baker -- The third day at Gettysburg / Henry J. Hunt -- Pickett's charge / E.P. Alexander -- Geeorge Bancroft: in society, in politics, in letters / William M. Sloane -- Two vice-presidents: John C. Breckinridge and Hannibal Hamlin / Henry L. Dawes -- Daniel Webster against Napoleon -- When in the night we wake and hear the rain / Robert Burns Wilson -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Lincoln in Congress / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- The strong / John Vance Cheney -- Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania / James Longstreet -- The bailing of Jefferson Davis / George Parsons Lathrop -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: the movement for slavery extension / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- The enchantress / Minna Irving -- Chickamauga, the great battle of the west / D.H. Hill -- Lee at Fredericksburg / J. Horace Lacy -- The battle of Fredericksburg / James Longstreet -- Sumner's "Right Grand Division" / Darius N. Couch -- Franklin's "Left Grand Division" / William Farrar Smith -- A madrigal / Frank Dempster Sherman -- The successes and failures of Chancellorsville / Alfred Pleasonton -- Jackson's attack upon the Eleventh Corps / O.O. Howard -- Sedgwick's assault at Fredericksburg / Huntington W. Jackson -- Chancellorsville revisited by General Hooker / Samuel P. Bates -- Corinth / W.S. Rosecrans -- Stonewall Jackson's last battle / James Power Smith -- A song of fleeting love / Alice Williams Brotherton -- Personal recollections of Louis Blanc / Karl Blind -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: the border conflict / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Keats / Robert Burns Wilson -- The campaign for Chattanooga / W.S. Rosecrans -- The Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga / J.S. Fullerton -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: the attack on Sumner, and the Dred Scott case/ by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- From the wilderness to Cold Harbor / E.M. Law -- Hand-to-hand fighting at Spotsylvania / G. Norton Galloway -- Solitude ; Silence / Stuart Sterne -- After reading Shakespeare / Charles Edwin Markham -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: the Lincoln-Douglas debates / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- Loss and gain / Kate Putnam Osgood -- The struggle for Atlanta / O.O. Howard -- General Sherman and the "march to the sea" / W.T. Sherman -- Sunken graves / Andrew B. Saxton -- What a school-girl saw of John Brown's raid / Jennie Chambers -- The death of love / Madison Cawein -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech and other political events of 1859-60 / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- The voyager / L. Frank Tooker -- Recollections of the John Brown raid / F.B. Sanborn -- Franz Hals / M/G/ van Rensselaer -- Opposing Sherman's advance to Atlanta / J.E. Johnston -- Hood's invasion of Tennessee / Henry Stone -- The songs of the war [fragment] -- Thomas Jefferson's home / J.G. Nicolay -- The later years of Monticello / Frank R, Stockton -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: Lincoln's nomination and election / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- A Benedictine garden / Alice Brown -- Love song / Amélie Rives -- The name of Washington / George Parsons Lathrop -- The framers and the framing of the Constitution / John Bach McMaster -- Sub pondere crescit / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- The tragedy of the crater / William H. Powell -- The dash into the crater / George L. Kilmer -- Assault and repulse at Fort Stedman / George L. Kilmer -- Abraham Lincoln, a history: the secession movement / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay -- My shadow / Ellen M.H. Gates -- Marching through Georgia and the Carolinas / Daniel Oakey -- Sherman's march from Savannah to Bentonville / H.W. Slocum -- The battle of Bentonville / Wade Hampton -- The wild ride / Louise Imogen Guiney -- France and Indo-China / Augustine Heard A compilation of articles, poetry, and correspondence selected from The century magazine and Harper's monthly magazine Bound in cloth, with embossed gold lettering on spine, and colored illustrations affixed to front and back lining papers 18
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