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.