Trial by fire : a people's history of the Civil War and Reconstruction

A History Of The United States From 1861 To 1874. The South On The Eve Of War -- The Response -- The Soldiers -- The Generals -- Washington In Peril -- Cabinet And Congress -- Bull Run -- Wilson's Creek -- Grant Appears -- Forts Henry And Donelson -- The Peninsula Campaign -- Diplomatic Matters -- Port Royal -- The War In The West -- The Abolitionists And The War -- From Bull Run To Antietam -- War On The Water -- The Proclamation -- Black Soldiers -- What To Do About The South? -- The South In The War -- The War And The Slaves -- For The Public Good -- Hospitals And Prisons -- The Democrats In The Ascendancy -- Chancellorsville -- Gettysburg -- Vicksburg -- Affairs Political And Military -- Grant Encounters Lee -- The Election Of 1864 -- The End -- The Death Of Lincoln -- The Dream Of The New Union -- Freedom -- The Postwar South -- Whites On Blacks -- Presidential Reconstruction -- Congress Fights Back -- Congressional Reconstruction -- The Reconstructed Governments -- Black Education -- Impeachment -- The Election Of 1868 -- The Soldier-president -- William Marcy Tweed -- The Klan -- The Election Of 1872 -- Grant's Second Administration -- The End Of Reconstruction -- A Disputed Election -- The Centennial Exhibition -- Religion -- Reconstruction Reconsidered. Page Smith. Volume Five. Volume Five Of The Author's History Of The United States. Maps On Lining Papers. Includes Index. The fifth volume of his multi-volume history of the United States from 1861 to 1874