The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great Rebellion

McPHERSON'S POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE REBELLION,

WITH A

COPIOUS CHAPTER ON THE CHURCH AND THE REBELLION.

From November 6, 1860, to April 15, 1865.

The Second Edition of this valuable and popular Work gives all the matter in the first carefully revised, with the addition of an Appendix, containing the Church Chapter, and bringing the History down, through the late Presidential Canvass and the last Session of the Union and the Rebel Congress, to the death of President LINCOLN, and the overthrow of the Rebel Administration. Among its chief contents, are these: I. °The Various State Papers of the Period—both Executive, Legislative, and Judicial

classified according to dates and subjects. II. A Record of the proceedings in the rebellious States between the Presidential election

of 1860 and the breaking out of the war, including the important Official Papers

produced by the Secession movement. III. The Action of the last Congress of President Buchanan's Administration, with a State

ment of each Proposition of Adjustment offered, AND THE VOTES THEREON, in Congress,

the Peace Conference, and other Adjustment Organizations. IV. The Constitution of the United States, and that of the Rebel States, with the points

of difference. V. President LINCOLN's First and Second Inaugural Addresses, his Various Annual Mes

sages, and all other papers relating to the War and its Issues. VI. Congressional, Executive, and Judicial Action respecting the Arrest of Citizens, and the

Writ of Habeas Corpus. VII. Laws, Decisions, and Votes upon Confiscation and Sequestration. VIII. The WHOLE RECORD upon proposed Compensated Emancipation, and upon the policy of

Emancipation. IX. All proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and the Votes

upon that for the EXTINCTION OF SLAVERY both in Congress and the various State

Legislatures. X. All other Votes, Orders, and Action respecting every other phase of the multiform Sla

very Question, both in the Union and the Rebel Congress. XI. The Military Legislation of the Period, together with the Orders of the Military respecto

ing Elections, Impressment of Property, Occupancy of Churches, &c. XII. The Niagara Falls and Hampton Roads Peace Negotiations, and all Congressional and

Legislative Action proposed or taken on the subject of Peace. XIII. The Action of Congress, the Executive, and the Military relating to the vexed, and

still unsettled, Question of Reconstruction. XIV. The Diplomacy, and the Financial Movements of the Period. XV. Full lists of the Union and Rebel Administrations. XVI. The National Conventions at Cleveland, Baltimore, and Chicago, with the Platforios,

Nominations, and Acceptances of the candidates of each. XVII. The Correct Vote at the Presidential Election of 1860, and of 1864. XVIII. The Church and the Rebellion-giving the Action of each Denomination since 1861 on

the State of the Country; the action of the Churches in the Rebel States; the relations of the Military to the Churches in the Border and the Insurrectionary States; and

the Reconstruction of Churches. XIX. Original Records from the Office of the Judge Advocate General, illustrating the opera

tion of Emancipation in the Southwest, and the character of the Rebellion. The work may be justly said to be a MAGAZINE OF Facts, arranged in logical order, or grouped in natural harmony, and contains an exhaustive Index, which makes reference to both names and subjects ready and casy.

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