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| Preface | |
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| Wilderness Beginnings | |
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| New Salem Days | |
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| The Young Legislator | |
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| Lawyer in Springfield | |
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| "I Am Going To Be Married" | |
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| Running for Congress | |
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| Congressman Lincoln | |
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| Back Home in Springfield | |
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| Restless Growing America | |
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| The Deepening Slavery Issue | |
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| The Great Debates | |
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| Strange Friend and Friendly Stranger | |
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| "Only Events Can Make a President" | |
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| "Mary, We're Elected" | |
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| The House Dividing | |
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| "I Bid You an Affectionate Farewell" | |
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| America Whither?--Lincoln Journeys to Washington | |
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| Lincoln Takes the Oath as President | |
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| Sumter and War Challenge--Call for Troops | |
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| Jefferson Davis--His Government | |
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| Turmoil--Fear--Hazards | |
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| Bull Run--McClellan--Fremont--The Trent Affair | |
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| The Politics of War--Corruption | |
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| Donelson--Grant--Shilob--Monitor and Merrimac--"Seven Days"--The Draft | |
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| Second Bull Run--Bloody Antietam--Chaos | |
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| The Involved Slavery Issue--Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation | |
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| McClellan's "Slows"--Election Losses--Fredericksburg--'62 Message | |
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| Thunder over the Cabinet--Murfreesboro | |
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| Final Emancipation Proclamation, '63 | |
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| "More Horses Than Oats"--Office Seekers | |
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| Hooker--Chancellorsville--Calamity | |
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| Will Grant Take Vicksburg? | |
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| Deep Shadows--Lincoln in Early '63 | |
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| The Man in the White House | |
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| Gettysburg--Vicksburg Siege--Deep Tides, '63 | |
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| Lincoln at Storm Center | |
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| Chickamauga--Elections Won, '63 | |
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| Lincoln Speaks at Gettysburg | |
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| Epic '63 Draws to a Close | |
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| Grant Given High Command, '64 | |
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| Will His Party Renominate Lincoln? | |
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| Jay Cooke--Cash for War--Hard Times and Flush | |
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| Chase Thirsts to Run for President | |
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| Spring of '64--Blood and Anger | |
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| Grant's Offensive, '64--Free Press--Lincoln Visits the Army | |
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| The Lincoln-Johnson Ticket of the National Union Party | |
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| Washington on the Defensive--Peace Babblings | |
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| "The Darkest Month of the War"--August '64 | |
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| The Fierce Fall Campaign of '64 | |
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| Lincoln's Laughter--and His Religion | |
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| The Pardoner | |
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| The Man Who Had Become the Issue | |
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| Election Day, November 8, 1864 | |
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| Lincoln Names a Chief Justice | |
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| The "Lost Army"--The South in Fire and Blood--War Prisons | |
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| The Bitter Year of '64 Comes to a Close | |
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| "Forever Free"--The Thirteenth Amendment | |
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| Heavy Smoke--Dark Smoke | |
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| The Second Inaugural | |
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| Endless Executive Routine | |
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| Lincoln Visits Grant's Army--Grant Breaks Lee's Line | |
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| Richmond Falls--Appomattox | |
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| "Not in Sorrow, but in Gladness of Heart" | |
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| Negotiations--An Ominous Dream | |
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| The Calendar Says Good Friday | |
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| Blood on the Moon | |
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| Shock--The Assassin--A Stricken People | |
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| A Tree Is Best Measured when It's Down | |
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| Vast Pageant--Then Great Quiet | |
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| Sources and Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |