Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Publisher: [The Century Co.]
Published: 1886
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 900
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham,; Generals -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Generals -- United States -- Biography.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
Genres: Biography.; Personal narratives.
Other titles: Century illustrated monthly magazine.
Description: A compilation of articles, poetry, and correspondence selected from The century magazine.
Notes: 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.

Bound in cloth, with embossed gold lettering on spine, and colored illustrations affixed to front and back lining papers.
Table of contents: title: Vedder's accompaniment to the Song of Omar Khayyám / H.E. Scudder; title: The old sedan chair / Austin Dobson; title: The first "dark horse:" how Polk defeated Van Buren ... / by Edward N. Vallandigham; title: The song by the Barada / Edna Dean Proctor; title: The battle of Bull Run / G.T. Beauregard; title: Recollections of a private, [pt.] 1 / Warren Lee Goss; title: A phase of social science / Henry C. Potter; title: The drummer / Henry Ames Blood; title: A ballad of Manila Bay / Charles G.D. Roberts; title: A night scene / James Herbert Morse; title: Theodore O'Hara / Robrt Burns Wilson; title: Recollections of a private, [pt.] 2 / Warren Lee Goss; title: The capture of Fort Donelson / Lew Wallace; title: Greeley's estimate of Lincoln: an unpublished address / by Horace Greeley; title: Recollections of Foote and the gun-boats / James B. Eads; title: Operations of the western flotilla / Henry Walke; title: The battle of Shiloh / U.S. Grant; title: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Shiloh campaign / William Preston Johnston; title: Notes of a Confederate staff-officer at Shiloh / Thomas Jordan; title: Reminiscences of Daniel Webster / Stephen M. Allen; title: Some recollections of Charles O'Conor / John Bigelow; title: The first fight of iron-clads / John Taylor Wood; title: In the Monitor turret / S.D. Greene; title: Watching the Merrimac / R.E. Colston; title: Recollections of a private, [pt.] 3 / Warren Lee Goss; title: New Orleans before the capture / George W. Cable; title: The opening of the lower Mississippi / David D. Porter; title: The parting of Ilmar and Haadin / John Vance Cheney; title: Incidents of the battle of Manassas / Jno. D. Imboden; title: Manassas to Seven Pines / J.E. Johnston; title: The second day at Seven Pines / Gustavus W. Smith; title: Recollections of a private, [pt.] 4 / Warren Lee Goss; title: The peninsular campaign / George B. McClellan; title: General Grant / Adam Badeau; title: Bird-voices / A. Lampman; title: John Brown at Harper's Ferry / John E.P. Daingerfield; title: Love's in the calendar / Robert Underwood Johnson; title: Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah / Jno. D. Imboden; title: The battle of Gaines's Mill / D.H. Hill; title: The battle of Gaines's Mill and its preliminaries / Fitz John Porter; title: McClellan's change of base / D.H. Hill; title: Rear-guard fighting at Savage's Station / W.B. Franklin; title: The seven days' fighting about Richmond / James Longstreet; title: William Lloyd Garrison / Thomas Wentworth Higginson; title: William Lloyd Garrison's origin and early life / Francis Jackson Garrison; title: The Indian country / Henry King; title: The wind upon the summit of Mount Washington / W.P. Foster; title: A Virginia girl in the first year of the war / C.C. Harrison; title: The last of the Seven Days' battles / Fitz John Porter; title: Recollections of a private, [pt.] 5 / Warren Lee Goss; title: A few words about Henry Clay / George Bancroft; title: The siege of Vicksburg / U.S. Grant; title: A woman's diary of the siege of Vicksburg /  [Anonymous]; title: Connecticut in the middle ages / Wendell Phillips Garrison; title: New wine / Dora Read Goodale; title: Riverside Park / William A. Stiles; title: The last days of General Grant / Adam Badeau; title: Lincoln and Grant ; Reminiscences of General Grant ; The tomb of General Grant / Horace Porter; title: Sunny harbor or stormy sea / Ella Giles Ruddy; title: Taps / F.M. Newton; title: The dead comrade / R.W.G.; title: Chattanooga / U.S. Grant; title: Anecdotes of McClellan's bravery / Z.; title: The dance in Place Congo / George W. Cable; title: The haunted heart / Minna Irving; title: The Monitors / John Ericsson; title: The loss of the Monitor / Francis B. Butts; title: Songs of battle / Helen Jackson; title: The second battle of Bull Run / John Pope; title: Recollections of a private, [pt.] 6 / Warren Lee Goss; title: The interpreter / Edith M. Thomas; title: Preparing for the wilderness campaign / U.S. Grant; title: The maid of Thrace / Fanny Foster Clark; title: Our march agains Pope / James Longstreet; title: With Jackson's foot-cavalry at the second Manassas / Allen C. Redwood; title: Campion / Alice Williams Brotherton; title: Shiloh reviewed / D.C. Buell; title: Creole slave songs / George W. Cable; title: Compensation / Celia Thaxter; title: General Sherman's opinion of General Grant / W.T. Sherman; title: McClellan and his mission [incomplete] / Major-General Fry; title: Life on the Alabama / P.D. Haywood; title: Cruise and combats of the Alabama / Jno. McIntosh Kell; title: The duel between the Alabama and the Kearsarge / John M. Browne.