Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • Rigg's Villa
  • Washington and the White House
  • Embattled retreat
  • The Lincoln marriage
  • Lincoln's Achilles heel
  • Lincoln's favorite storytellers
  • Lincoln and freedom
  • Poems on slavery
  • Lincoln's secretary of war
  • Lincoln and the tools of war
  • Lincoln's quartermaster general
  • Lincoln as commander-in-chief : the soldiers
  • The generals
  • The political general : Daniel Sickles
  • The professional general : Joseph Hooker
  • The political general : Benjamin Butler
  • Lincoln and his cabinet.