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Book

City of sedition : the history of New York City during the Civil War

Call Number

  • 974.71 S9124.1 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Twelve, 2016.

Physical Description

vi, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

  • Part I. Before: city of confusion
  • My God, we are ruined!
  • City of slavery
  • City of confusion
  • The great riot year
  • The war of the pennies
  • Immigrants and Know-Nothings
  • A trio of Tammany rogues
  • Lurching toward the precipice
  • Riot and outrage
  • From New York to bleeding Kansas
  • Leaves of Grass
  • Hard times and high
  • Murder and rebellion
  • Slave ships
  • The tall, dark horse stranger
  • City of secession
  • Part II. During: city of sedition
  • The tempest bursting
  • War! war!! war!!!
  • New York to the rescue
  • Immigrants join the fight
  • The first to fall
  • Seeing the elephant, or, the great skedaddle
  • The hyenas of war
  • The shoddy aristocracy
  • We are coming, Father Abraham
  • Three cheers for Ericsson
  • I goes to fight mit Sigel
  • The dead of Antietam
  • Sambo's right to be kilt
  • Burnside falls, Sickles rises
  • Grafted into the army
  • Dan Sickles, hero or villain?
  • The volcano erupts
  • Tweed to the rescue
  • The fire in the rear
  • New York City's burning
  • Last acts
  • A "hippodrome of sorrow"
  • Part III. After: city of gilt
  • The postwar boom
  • Anything to beat Grant
  • Scandals and scams
  • Old soldiers
  • Epilogue.

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