
Battle Cry of Freedom The Civil War Era
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Author Biography
James M. McPherson is Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University. His books include The Struggle for Equality, Marching Toward Freedom, and Ordeal by Fire.
Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction | xvii | ||
Prologue: From the Halls of Montezuma | 3 | (3) | |
1. The United States at Midcentury | 6 | (41) | |
2. Mexico Will Poison Us | 47 | (31) | |
3. An Empire for Slavery | 78 | (39) | |
4. Slavery, Rum, and Romanism | 117 | (28) | |
5. The Crime Against Kansas | 145 | (25) | |
6. Mudsills and Greasy Mechanics for A. Lincoln | 170 | (32) | |
7. The Revolution of 1860 | 202 | (32) | |
8. The Counterrevolution of 1861 | 234 | (42) | |
9. Facing Both Ways: The Upper South's Dilemma | 276 | (32) | |
10. Amateurs Go to War | 308 | (31) | |
11. Farewell to the Ninety Days' War | 339 | (30) | |
12. Blockade and Beachhead: The Salt-Water War, 1861-1862 | 369 | (23) | |
13. The River War in 1862 | 392 | (36) | |
14. The Sinews of War | 428 | (26) | |
15. Billy Yank's Chickahominy Blues | 454 | (36) | |
16. We Must Free the Slaves or Be Ourselves Subdued | 490 | (21) | |
17. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny | 511 | (35) | |
18. John Bull's Virginia Reel | 546 | (22) | |
19. Three Rivers in Winter, 1862-1863 | 568 | (23) | |
20. Fire in the Rear | 591 | (35) | |
21. Long Remember: The Summer of '63 | 626 | (40) | |
22. Johnny Reb's Chattanooga Blues | 666 | (23) | |
23. When This Cruel War Is Over | 689 | (29) | |
24. If It Takes All Summer | 718 | (33) | |
25. After Four Years of Failure | 751 | (23) | |
26. We Are Going To Be Wiped Off the Earth | 774 | (33) | |
27. South Carolina Must Be Destroyed | 807 | (24) | |
28. We Are All Americans | 831 | (22) | |
Epilogue: To the Shoals of Victory | 853 | (10) | |
Afterword | 863 | (5) | |
Abbreviated Titles | 868 | (2) | |
Bibliographic Note | 870 | (18) | |
Index | 888 |
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