Winkle, Kenneth J.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-463) and index.
- Abolition house — Getting the hang of the house : Congressman Abraham Lincoln — At war with Washington : the abolitionists — A western free state man : Lincoln and slavery — Is the center nothing? : Lincoln’s middle ground — Cleaning the devil out of Washington — A wide spread and powerful conspiracy : warnings and threats from Washington — The way we skulked into this city : claiming the presidency — This big White House : the Lincoln family — White and black, all mixed up together : the African American community — A swift and terrible retribution : striking the first blows — Order out of confusion : preparing for war — I was slow to adopt the strong measures : loyalty and disloyalty — If I were only a boy I’d march off tomorrow : the tide of sick and wounded — An unknown something called freedom — Tinkering experiments : toward emancipation — Freedom triumphant in war and peace : emancipation in Washington — We must use what tools we have : toward total war — On the soil where they were born : the former slaves — The step which, at once, shortens the war : the Emancipation Proclamation — Defend what is our own : the limits of freedom — Never forget what they did here : honoring the fallen — Worth more than a victory in the field : the end in sight — Epilogue: The country was ready to say amen .
- 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.
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