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| Foreword | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: On Understanding the Civil War | |
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| Secession and the First Shot | |
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| Secession | |
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| The First Shot | |
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| War Begins | |
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| Mobilizing For Conflict | |
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| War Aims | |
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| The First Battles | |
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| The European Response | |
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| The Limited War | |
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| Forts Henry and Donelson | |
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| Shiloh | |
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| Rebels Resurgents in Virginia | |
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| Confederate Escalation | |
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| War Becomes Revolution | |
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| Toward Emancipation | |
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| Confederate Counteroffensives: Lee Moves North | |
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| Confederate Counteroffensives: Perryville, Iuka, and Corinth | |
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| Emancipation and Elections | |
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| Union Battlefield Standoffs and Rebuffs | |
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| Gambles Won and Lost | |
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| Chancellorsville | |
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| Vicksburg and Gettysburg | |
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| Chickamauga and Chattanooga | |
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| The Impact of Emancipation | |
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| The Home Front | |
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| The Folks Back Home | |
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| The Northern Economy and War Effort | |
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| The Southern Economy and War Effort | |
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| Politics and Society: The North | |
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| Politics and Society: The South | |
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| Wartime Reconstruction: Early Steps | |
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| The Campaigns of 1864 | |
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| Grant’s Grand Design | |
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| The Wilderness Campaigns | |
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| The Atlanta Campaign | |
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| Lincoln’s Bid for Reelection | |
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| Victory on the Battlefield and at the Ballot Box | |
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| Victory and Defeat | |
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| Sherman’s March to the Sea | |
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| Fort Fisher and the March through the Carolinas | |
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| Emancipation, Reconstruction, and Peace Proposals | |
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| From Richmond to Appomattox | |
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| Foundations for Peace | |
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| Conclusion: Why the Union Won | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Index | |
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| Maps: Major Campaigns of the Civil War | |
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| Campaigns in the West, February to April 1862 | |
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| The Peninsula Campaign 1862 | |
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| Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, August to December 1862 | |
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| War in the East, 1863 | |
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| The Vicksburg Campaign, April to July 1863 | |
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| Grant vs. Lee | |
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| Campaigns in the West, 1864-65 | |