366 days in Abraham Lincoln's presidency : the private, political, and military decisions of America's greatest president /

Journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln's decisions in office--including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and...

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Автор:	Wynalda, Stephen A.
Формат:	Книга
Мова:	English
Опубліковано:	New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2010.
Предмети:	Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Chronology. Whitman College > Memorial bookplates > Class of 1937. United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865 > Chronology.
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1861. January 3: Lincoln vacillates
A divisive cabinet
January 11: Lincoln stands firm
The other thirteenth amendment
January 12: Visitors
January 24: "Diamond in the rough"
Informal wear
January 28: Inaugural preparations
January 31: A tearful goodbye
Sally
February 6: A last Springfield reception
What the Lincolns left behind
February 8: The Lincolns move out
February 11: Lincoln leaves Springfield
February 14: Whistle-stops
February 15: "There is no crisis"
February 21: The Baltimore plot
Should Lincoln have been worried?
February 23: Lincoln's secret train ride
Lincoln's first day in Washington
February 27: The old nemesis
March 5: Anderson's warning
March 10: Lincoln goes to church
Praying for the president
March 12: Surrendering Sumter?
March 16: Lincoln polls his cabinet
The surrounded fortress
March 18: The green president
March 19: Patronage
March 29: The commander in chief decides
March 30: A share in the patronage pie
April 1: The American prime minister
Seward's ambition
April 5: The presidential paycheck
April 6: To avoid war
April 13: Sumter falls
April 17: Virginia secedes from the Union
The anguished decision
April 19: The blockade
Was Lincoln's blockade effective?
April 21: Washington is isolated
April 24: The wait
April 25: Maryland and secession
April 27: The first suspension of habeas corpus
April 29: The irregulars
May 1: The Powhatan fiasco
Did Lincoln provoke the war?
May 4: The committee
May 21: A letter to London
Thorny relations
May 24: Elmer Ellsworth
May 27: The quartermaster general
May 30: Taney vs. Lincoln
June 3: "His name fills the nation"
June 13: The sharpshooters
June 17: Executive decor
How bad was the White House?
June 18: Aerial reconnaissance
June 22: The daunting task
June 29: Two plans
July 20: "You are all green alike"
July 21: Distant guns
July 23: A grim reevaluation
"I believe he would do it"
July 27: McClellan comes to Washington
August 2: The picnic
August 3: Prince Napoleon
August 5: Income tax
August 6: Lincoln vs. Congress
August 15: Missouri's woes
August 16: Trade across the lines
August 17: The "coffee-mill gun"
The father of invention
August 24: Neutral Kentucky
August 31: "Our first naval victory"
September 2: Fremont's proclamation
September 9: Lincoln sends Fremont help
September 10: Ironclads
September 11: "He knows what I want done"
September 16: The Fremonts vs. the Blairs
September 30: Political arrests
Maryland and civil liberties
October 8: Troop reviews
October 19: The navy yard
October 20: Wires that spanned a continent
October 21: Edward Baker
October 27: Fremont is dismissed
Handling Fremont
November 1: Scott's out, McClellan's in
Scott vs. McClellan
November 13: Dodging the president
November 15: The Trent affair
Why was recognition of the Confederacy important?
November 16: The gardener
Mary's bills
November 28: Thanksgiving
November 29: "Chevalier" Wikoff
December 3: Chaplains
December 26: Seward's argument
1862. January 6: Lincoln defends McClellan
January 10: "The bottom is out of the tub"
January 13: Lincoln removes Cameron
Cameron's "shoddy" department
January 26: The not-so-tenderhearted Lincoln
January 27: Lincoln demands his armies move
February 2: Lincoln meets Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson on Lincoln
February 4: Lincoln refuses a pardon
February 5: A White House ball
February 12: Lincoln's sick child
Willie
February 16: Fort Donelson surrenders
February 20: "My boy is gone!"
February 24: Willie's funeral
February 25: The national bank
February 28: McClellan's mistake
March 6: Compensated emancipation
Why compensated emancipation failed
March 9: The CSS Virginia
March 11: Lincoln demotes McClellan
March 13: The peninsula campaign begins
March 14: Seizing neutral ships
April 9: "But you must act"
April 10: "Place of peace"
April 16: Slaves freed in the District of Columbia
May 5: On the march to Richmond
May 7: A trip to Fortress Monroe
May 9: A private little war
Commander in chief
May 11: "Norfolk is ours"
May 15: The Department of Agriculture
May 16: The general's pet
McClellan's ego
May 17: Reinforcements
May 19: Hunter's emancipation
Why Lincoln had to be the emancipator
May 20: The Homestead Act
May 23: A day at Fredericksburg
May 25: McDowell is recalled
May 26: Lincoln protects Cameron's reputation
Lincoln's magnanimity
May 28: Three generals
June 1: "Hold all your ground"
June 7: "Quiet is very necessary to us"
June 14: A twenty-dollar fine
June 15: Fremont's nerves
The Shenandoah or Richmond?
June 19: The extension of slavery
June 20: "Public opinion baths
His changing mind
June 23: Advice from an old war horse
June 25: "I owe no thanks to you"
July 2: The peninsula campaign ends
July 9: The "Harrison bar letter"
July 12: Medal of honor
July 17: Congress and slavery
July 22: The preliminary emancipation
July 28: "Friends who would hold my hands"
August 4: "Gentlemen, you have my decision"
What changed his mind
August 14: An unpopular policy
Lincoln and colonization
August 22: "The prayer of twenty millions"
August 29: Waiting on a victory
August 30: "Leave Pope to get out of his scrape"
September 1: "I must have McClellan"
"Almost ready to hang himself"
September 5: Bucktails
Company K
September 12: "Maryland, my Maryland"
September 13: A bull against a comet
September 15: The cigar wrapper
September 17: Antietam
September 22: The promise of freedom
"Queer little conceits"
September 24: Habeas corpus suspended nationally
Multiple suspensions
September 26: "That is not the game"
September 28: "Breath alone kills no rebels"
October 2: How the troops felt
October 3: "McClellan's bodyguard"
Ditties
October 4: "No enemies here"
Mary and the wounded
October 7: "To hurt the enemy"
October 12: Buell
October 14: Tad and the military
"Cussed Old Abe himself"
October 17: Lincoln meets Commodore Nutt
October 24: Lincoln removes Buell
October 25: The couchant lion
October 26: Lincoln's purpose
November 5: "Hard, tough fighting"
November 7: Ellet's rams
November 14: A "soldier" or a "housekeeper"
November 22: "Impedimenta"
November 26: Missed opportunities
December 1: The Minnesota Sioux uprising
December 6: Mercy
Lincoln and Native Americans
December 11: Resolutions
December 12: Fernando Wood
December 14: Fredericksburg
December 17: "Lincoln's evil genius"
The cabinet crisis
December 20: Cutting the Gordian knot
December 29: Cabinet meetings
December 30: "You fail me"
December 31: The evolving proclamation
1863. January 1: The Emancipation Proclamation
January 4: Anti-semitism
January 5: A bright moment in a dark year
January 8: Lincoln refuses a resignation
Resignations
January 14: Arming black soldiers
January 18: Churches
January 19: "The sleeping sentinel"
Childhood home
January 21: Too close to McClellan
January 22: Political generals
January 25: Hooker replaces Burnside
February 13: Lincoln meets Tom Thumb
February 18: The African slave trade
March 3: Two notorious acts
March 15: Raiders
March 20: The banished reporter
April 7: Princess Salm-Salm
April 20: West Virginia becomes a state
April 23: Séances in the White House
"Long Brave" joins a sé́ance
April 28: An anxious president
May 3: Telegrams
May 6: "What will the country say?"
"I am down to raisins"
May 12: Death of a legend
May 13: Copperheads
May 14: "I would be very glad of another movement"
May 22: The Vicksburg siege begins
May 29: Burnside offers to resign again
June 2: Grant worries Lincoln
June 4: Lincoln reopens the Chicago Times
Lincoln and freedom of the press
June 5: Lee moves north
June 9: Nightmares
Lincoln's dreams
June 12: The Corning letter
June 16: Hooker and Halleck
June 26: Late-night visitors
June 27: "His own dunghill"
July 3: A carriage accident
Threats
July 4: Gettysburg
July 5: "The pretended Confederate states"
July 6: "The whole country is our soil"
July 7: "Caught the rabbit"
July 13: Draft riots
July 14: "Your golden opportunity is gone"
Could Meade have ended the war?
July 15: From anger to laughter
Robert
July 18: Reviewing courts-martial
"Leg cases"
July 24: War widows
July 25: Routes
July 29: Caution
July 30: Order of retaliation
The "black flag"
August 1: To "live in history"
August 7: "Bullocks into a slaughter pen"
August 9: "The tycoon is in a fine whack"
The physical man
August 10: Lincoln meets Frederick Douglass
August 11: War governors
August 13: The symbol
August 20: The telegraph office
August 26: The Conklin letter
August 27: Bounty-jumpers
September 14: The Judiciary vs. the Executive
September 18: Old friends
The almanac murder trial
September 21: "River of death"
September 25: The rant
September 27: Reinforcements for Rosecrans
September 29: Temperance
October 5: "No friends in Missouri"
October 6: Grover's National Theater
October 9: Prison camps
October 16: The cracker line
October 18: The chin-fly
"Pieces upon a chessboard"
October 23: Murder in Maryland
October 28: Arming the disloyal
October 30: Ford's Theatre
November 2: "I am used to it"
November 9: Tyrannicide
November 12: The competition
November 17: A cemetery in Gettysburg
November 18: Writing the Gettysburg Address
November 19: The address
November 23: Siege at Knoxville
November 25: Missionary Ridge
November 27: Sickbed
Lincoln's health
December 4: "Pipes"
December 8: Amnesty and reconstruction
December 9: Annual message
December 13: Emilie's visit
December 16: A rebel in the White House
December 19: The imperial navy
Did Russia save the Union?
December 22: Freedom of religion
December 23: The storyteller
The uses of his stories
December 28: Lincoln's secretaries
1864. January 7: The butchering business
"Until further orders"
January 16: Lincoln meets Anna Dickinson
January 20: Reconstructing Arkansas
January 23: The "voluntary labor system"
January 29: Lincoln sends an emissary south
February 9: Two photos that become icons
February 10: Willie's pony dies
The Lincolns pets
February 19: The Booths and the Lincolns
February 22: The Pomeroy circular
February 29: Lincoln outmaneuvers Chase
March 1: Grant is promoted
March 2: Lincoln's memory
March 7: The Dahlgren conspiracy
March 8: Lincoln meets Grant
March 21: Nevada to become a state
Words that haunted him
March 24: Failure in Florida
March 25: "Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?"
March 28: White House security
April 3: The Hodges letter
The doctrine of necessity
April 18: The Baltimore riot
April 22: "In God we trust"
April 26: The presidential office
April 30: Lincoln meets Elizabeth Cady Stanton
May 2: An annoyed general
May 8: "There will be no turning back"
May 10: Banishing clergy
May 18: The ruse
May 31: "About four hundred men"
June 6: The Baltimore convention
June 10: Vallindigham returns
June 11: Lincoln's personal finances
June 21: "I will go in"
Casualties of war
June 24: Disparity
Racial discrimination
June 28: Fugitive slave laws
June 30: Chase loses his job
Parting ways
July 1: A new treasury secretary
July 8: The Wade-Davis bill
July 10 "Keep cool"
July 11: Under fire
July 16: The Niagara Falls peace efforts
July 19: A riot close to home
July 26: The Confederates escape again
July 31: "We sleep at night"
August 8: The sister-in-law
Disloyal kin
August 12: "Let 'em wriggle"
August 18: "I fear he is a failure"
August 19: The Robinson letter
"Damned in time and eternity"
August 21: Wrought-iron
August 23: "The tide is against us"
August 25: "Worse than losing"
August 28: "Am I to have no rest?"
The soldiers' home
September 3: "Damn the torpedoes"
If Lincoln was not reelected
September 4: Conscientious objectors
September 6: Women in the ranks
September 7: Lincoln and the bible
What did Lincoln believe?
September 8: Writing Mary
September 19: The soldiers' vote
September 20: "Blows upon a dead body"
September 23: The deal
October 1: "The first installment"
October 10: Cleaning up a piece of ground
October 11: Reading "balderdash"
October 13: A close race
October 15: Citizen Taney
October 22: Little Phil's ride
October 29: Lincoln meets Sojourner Truth
Was Lincoln a racist?
October 31: Nevada becomes a state
November 3: Election preparations
November 4: The transcontinental railroad
November 8: Reelection
Mary's bad habit
November 11: To "save the union"
November 21: The Bixby letter
November 24: Edward Bates
December 2: Prison overpopulation
Starving prisoners
December 7: The nominee
Lincoln's Supreme Court
December 10: Lincoln and friends
Was Lincoln a homosexual?
December 15: George Thomas
December 21: War democrats
December 25: The Christmas gift.
1865. January 2 "Marse Linkum"
January 9: The humblest employee
January 15: Lincoln meets Jean Agassiz
January 17: Fort Fisher
January 30: Peace overtures
February 1: Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment
February 3: The Hampton Roads conference
February 7: "Waiting for the hour"
February 17: Robert receives his commission
February 26: "Lots of wisdom in that document
March 4: Lincoln is inaugurated
Four years earlier
March 17: The plot
Booth's other attempts
March 22: The abduction
March 23: The Lincolns head for the front
March 26: Hackles of the "hellcat"
Mary's temper
March 27: The city point conference
March 31: The beginning of the end
April 2: "This is victory"
April 4: Lincoln takes a seat
April 8: "Let the thing be pressed"
April 11: Lincoln's last speech
Why did Booth kill Lincoln?
April 12: "Giving away the scepter"
April 14: Lincoln's final day
"Sic semper tyrannis"
April 15: "Now he belongs to the ages".

366 days in Abraham Lincoln's presidency : the private, political, and military decisions of America's greatest president /

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