This book allows you to experience the history, the politics and the individual events of the American Civil War as never seen before, through the original daily reportage of The New York Times, America's leading newspaper of public record. One of the only newspapers with correspondents on the front lines, The NY Times's complete coverage of the war is now available for the first time in this unique book-and-disc package. Includes: - All the contemporary coverage of every campaign and every battle in the American Civil War. - The reporting on the leaders, the heroes, the triumphant, the defeated and the oppressed. - All told in 65,328 eyewitness reports and contemporary New York Times articles. 300 are included in the book and all the rest on an accompanying DVD.
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Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Reference) 2011.
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| Introduction |
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| Prologue: "The Question of Freedom or Slavery: The Coming of the Civil War" |
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Chapter 1 "The Approaching Triumph of Mr. Lincoln" |
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Chapter 2 "The Momentous Issue of Civil War" |
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Chapter 3 "The Excitement... Has Benn Intense" |
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Chapter 4 "The Greatest Battle Ever Fought on This Continent" |
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Chapter 5 "What We Are Fighting For" |
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Chapter 6 "The Darkest and Gloomiest Year" |
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November 1861-January 1862 |
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Chapter 7 "The Iron Gunboats Have Settled the Question" |
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Chapter 8 "Operations Seem Everywhere to Have Come Almost to a Dead Halt" |
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Chapter 9 "In Front of Richmond" |
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Chapter 10 "Removing That Dreadful Evil" |
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Chapter 11 "A People Suffering Fearfully" |
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November 1862-January 1863 |
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Chapter 12 "If We Win a Battle" |
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Chapter 13 "A Terrific Crash of Musketry" |
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Chapter 14 "An Action of Gigantic Magnitude" |
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Chapter 15 "A Desperate Engagement" |
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Chapter 16 "The Shock of Battle" |
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Chapter 17 "By Renouncing Their Treason" |
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292 | (16) |
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December 1863-February 1864 |
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Chapter 18 "Gen. Grant and Staff Arrived Here To-day" |
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Chapter 19 "We Are Going on to Richmond, Depend Upon It" |
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Chapter 20 "Fighting has been Going on Nearly All Day" |
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Chapter 21 "There Is No Security from Danger" |
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Chapter 22 "The Very Life of the Nation is at Stake" |
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Chapter 23 "No Such Thing as Compromise" |
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Chapter 24 "The Great Struggle Is Over" |
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Chapter 25 "This Hour of Mourning and of Gloom" |
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Epilogue: "What Is to Be Done With the Negro?" The Era of Reconstruction |
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| The New York Times Chronology of the Civil War |
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Harold Holzer is one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. He has published over thirty books, including 'The New York Times' Complete Civil War (Black Dog and Leventhal), and is the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Lincoln Prize and the National Humanities Medal. He lectures widely, appears on television frequently, and has written for the New York Times, American Heritage, and America's Civil War. Most recently he served as co-chair of the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and is senior vice president for external affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Find him online at www.haroldholzer.com.Craig Symonds is a distinguished historian of the American Civil War and a retired professor and chairman of the history department at the United States Naval Academy. He is the author of 11 books including Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battlesthat Shaped American History, which won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in 2006, and Lincoln and His Admirals, which won the 2009 Lincoln Prize. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
