Saturday, March 30, 2013

Battle Cry of Freedom. By James M. McPherson.

The Peacemakers, By George P. A. Healy, 1868. On March 28, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln meets with the Union high command—Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, and Admiral David Porter—aboard the River Queen discuss how the Civil War would end.

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. By James M. McPherson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Part 1, pp. i-489. Part 2, pp. 490-904.

The classic one-volume account of America’s new birth of freedom.