Lincoln's citadel : the Civil War in Washington, DC

Author

Kenneth J Winkle

Call Number

• 975.3 W7751 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.

Physical Description

xvi, 486 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Contents

• "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".