The Civil War and Reconstruction


President Abraham Lincoln (center), at a Union Army encampment in October 1862, following the battle of Antietam.
(Library of Congress)
  1. Secession and Civil War
  2. Western advance, Eastern stalemate
  3. Gettysburg to Appomattox
  4. With Malice towards none
  5. Radical Reconstruction
  6. The End of Reconstruction
  7. The Civil War and New Patterns of American Politics