Lincoln's citadel
Subtitle: the Civil War in Washington, DC
By: Kenneth J. Winkle
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780393081558
Subjects: History
Description: Describes the Civil War from Abraham Lincoln's point of view in Washington, D.C., chronicling how the president supported fugitive slaves and also personally comforted wounded troops during wartime.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-463) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Abolition house"; title: "Getting the hang of the house": Congressman Abraham Lincoln; title: "At war with Washington": the abolitionists; title: "A western free state man": Lincoln and slavery; title: "Is the center nothing?": Lincoln's middle ground; title: "Cleaning the devil out of Washington"; title: "A wide spread and powerful conspiracy": warnings and threats from Washington; title: "The way we skulked into this city": claiming the presidency; title: "This big White House": the Lincoln family; title: "White and black, all mixed up together": the African American community; title: "A swift and terrible retribution": striking the first blows; title: "Order out of confusion": preparing for war; title: "I was slow to adopt the strong measures": loyalty and disloyalty; title: "If I were only a boy I'd march off tomorrow": the tide of sick and wounded; title: "An unknown something called freedom"; title: "Tinkering experiments": toward emancipation; title: "Freedom triumphant in war and peace": emancipation in Washington; title: "We must use what tools we have": toward total war; title: "On the soil where they were born": the former slaves; title: "The step which, at once, shortens the war": the Emancipation Proclamation; title: "Defend what is our own": the limits of freedom; title: "Never forget what they did here": honoring the fallen; title: "Worth more than a victory in the field": the end in sight; title: Epilogue: "The country was ready to say amen".