Jackson's Valley Campaign--Lincoln's Visit to Scott--Pope Assigned to Command--Lee's Attack on McClellan--Retreat to Harrison's Landing--Seward Sent to New York--Lincoln's Letter to Seward--Lincoln's Letter to McClellan--Lincoln's Visit to McClellan--Halleck Made General-in-Chief--Halleck's Visit to McClellan--Withdrawal from Harrison's Landing--Pope Assumes Command--Second Battle of Bull Run--The Cabinet Protest--McClellan Ordered to Defend Washington--The Maryland Campaign--Battle of Antietam--Lincoln visits Antietam--Lincoln's Letter to McClellan--McClellan Removed from Command XXIII Cameron's Report--Lincoln's Letter to Bancroft--Annual Message on Slavery--The Delaware Experiment--Joint Resolution on Compensated Abolishment--First Border State Interview--Stevens's Comment--District of Columbia Abolishment--Committee on Abolishment--Hunter's Order Revoked--Antislavery Measures of Congress--Second Border State Interview--Emancipation Proposed and Postponed XXIV Criticism of the President for his Action on Slavery--Lincoln's Letters to Louisiana Friends--Greeley's Open Letter--Mr. Lincoln's Reply--Chicago Clergymen Urge Emancipation--Lincoln's Answer--Lincoln Issues Preliminary Proclamation--President Proposes Constitutional Amendment--Cabinet Considers Final Proclamation--Cabinet Discusses Admission of West Virginia--Lincoln Signs Edict of Freedom--Lincoln's Letter to Hodges XXV Negro Soldiers--Fort Pillow--Retaliation--Draft--Northern Democrats--Governor Seymour's Attitude--Draft Riots in New York--Vallandigham--Lincoln on his Authority to Suspend Writ of Habeas Corpus--Knights of the Golden Circle--Jacob Thompson in Canada XXVI Burnside--Fredericksburg--A Tangle of Cross-Purposes--Hooker Succeeds Burnside--Lincoln to Hooker--Chancellorsville--Lee's Second Invasion--Lincoln's Criticisms of Hooker's Plans--Hooker Relieved--Meade--Gettysburg--Lee's Retreat--Lincoln's Letter to Meade--Lincoln's Gettysburg Address--Autumn Strategy--The Armies go into Winter Quarters XXVII Buell and Bragg--Perryville--Rosecrans and Murfreesboro--Grant's Vicksburg Experiments--Grant's May Battles--Siege and Surrender of Vicksburg--Lincoln to Grant--Rosecrans's March to Chattanooga--Battle of Chickamauga--Grant at Chattanooga--Battle of Chattanooga--Burnside at Knoxville--Burnside Repulses Longstreet XXVIII Grant Lieutenant-General--Interview with Lincoln--Grant Visits Sherman--Plan of Campaigns--Lincoln to Grant--From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor--The Move to City Point--Siege of Petersburg--Early Menaces Washington--Lincoln under Fire--Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley XXIX Sherman's Meridian Expedition--Capture of Atlanta--Hood Supersedes Johnston--Hood's Invasion of Tennessee--Franklin and Nashville--Sherman's March to the Sea--Capture of Savannah--Sherman to Lincoln--Lincoln to Sherman--Sherman's March through the Carolinas--The Burning of Charleston and Columbia--Arrival at Goldsboro--Junction with Schofield--Visit to Grant XXX