Edmund DeWitt Patterson: journal, January 20, 1863 / Picket duty and snowballs: Virginia, January, 1863 -- Theodore A. Dodge: journal, January 21-24, 1863 / The mud march: Virginia, January, 1863 -- Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., January 23, 1863 / Emancipation and public opinion: London, January, 1863 -- George G. Meade to Margaret Meade, January 23, 26, and 28, 1863 / A change in command: Virginia, January, 1863 -- Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863 / Advising a new commander: Washington, D.C., February, 1863 -- John A. Andrew to Francis Shaw, January 30, 1863 / Raising a black regiment: Massachusetts, January, 1863 -- William Parker Cutler: diary, February 2 and 9, 1863 / Debating black soldiers: Washington, D.C., February, 1863 -- George Templeton Strong: diary, February 3-5, 1863 / "These be dark blue days" : New York, February, 1863 -- Oliver W. Norton to Edwin Norton, February 6, 1863 / "The soldier's pest" : Virginia, February, 1863 -- Robert E. Lee to Mary Lee, February 8, 1863 / Short rations: Virginia, February, 1863 -- Robert Gould Shaw to Annie Haggerty, February 8, 1863 / Accepting a colonelcy: Virginia, February, 1863 -- Richard Cobden to Charles Sumner, February 13, 1863 / Emancipation and intervention: London, February, 1863 -- Isaac Funk: speech in the Illinois State Senate, February 14, 1863 / "These traitors right here" : Springfield, February, 1863 -- Taylor Peirce to Catharine Peirce, February 16, 1863 / "His wife crying over him": Missouri, February, 1863 -- William T. Sherman to Thomas Ewing, Sr., February 17, 1863, and to John Sherman, February 18, 1863 / The menace of the press: Louisiana, February, 1863 -- Clement L. Vallandigham: speech in Congress, February 23, 1863 / Opposing conscription: Washington, D.C., February, 1863 -- Samuel W. Fiske to the Springfield Republican, February 25, 1863 / Vile and traitorous resolutions: Virginia, February, 1863 -- Charles C. Jones, Jr. to Charles C. Jones, Sr., and Mary Jones, March 3, 1863 / Defending Fort McAllister: Georgia, March, 1863 -- Charles C. Jones, Sr., to Charles C. Jones, Jr., March 4, 1863 / Fight more manfully than ever: Georgia, March, 1863 -- Harriet Jacobs to Lydia Maria Child, March 18, 1863 / Black refugees: Virginia, March, 1863 -- William Henry Harrison Clayton to Nide and Rachel Pugh, March 26, 1863 / Unionist refugees: Missouri, March, 1863 -- Henry W. Halleck to Ulysses S. Grant, March 31, 1863 / Withdrawing slaves from the enemy: Washington, D.C., March, 1863 -- Frederick Law Olmsted to John Olmsted, April 1, 1863 / The Army before Vicksburg: Louisiana, March, 1863 -- Frederick Douglass: why should a colored man enlist?, April, 1863 / A war for emancipation: April, 1863 -- Jefferson Davis to William M. Brooks, April 2, 1863 / Defending General Pemberton: Virginia, April, 1863 -- John B. Jones: diary, April 2-4, 1863 / The Richmond bread riot: Virginia, April, 1863 -- Whitelaw Reid to the Cincinnati Gazette, April 4, 1863 / The necessity of fighting: April, 1863 -- Charles S. Wainwright: Diary, April 5-12, 1863 / Lincoln Reviews the Army: Virginia, April 1863 -- Francis Lieber: No Party Now, But All for Our Country, April 11, 1863 / Loyalty to the Nation: New York, April 1863 -- Catharine Peirce to Taylor Peirce, April 12, 1863 / Home and family news: Iowa, April, 1863 -- James A. Connolly to Mary Dunn Connolly, April 20, 1863 / Fighting goes like fortunes: Tennessee, April, 1863 -- Ulysses S. Grant to Jesse Root Grant, April 21, 1863 / "I am doing my best": Louisiana, April, 1863 -- David Hunter to Jefferson Davis, April 23, 1863 / Threatening retaliation: South Carolina, April, 1863 -- Kate Stone: journal, April 25, 1863 / "A night and day of terror": Louisiana, March-April, 1863 -- Wilbur Fisk to The Green Mountain Freeman, April 26, 1863 / Waiting to march: Virginia, April, 1863 -- John Hampden Chamberlayne to Martha Burwell Chamberlayne, April 30, 1863 / "Rain, mud & night": Virginia, April, 1863 --
Summary:
Spanning the crucial months from January 1863 to March 1864, this third volume of The Library of America's highly acclaimed four volume series presents an incomparable portrait of a nation at war with itself while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union closer to victory and slavery closer to destruction. It brings together more than 140 contemporary letters, diary entries, speeches, articles, messages, and poems by more than eighty participants and observers, among them Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Mary Chesnut, Clement Vallandigham, Henry Adams, Charlotte Forten, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, and George Templeton Strong, as well as Union officers Robert Gould Shaw, Charles B. Haydon, and Henry Livermore Abbott; Confederate diarists Catherine Edmondston, Kate Stone, and Judith McGuire; and Alabama soldier Samuel Pickens, Iowa housewife Catharine Peirce, Kentucky preacher George Richard Browder, and Kansas clergyman Richard Cordley. The selections include vivid and haunting eyewitness narratives of some of the war's most famous battles-Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Fort Wagner, Chickamauga, Chattanooga-as well as firsthand accounts of the merciless guerrilla war in Missouri and Kansas; the Richmond bread riot and the New York draft riots; the controversies surrounding the use of black soldiers and the Lincoln administration's curtailment of civil liberties; and the struggles of civilians both black and white to survive increasingly harsh wartime conditions.
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