Edwin McMasters Stanton, the autocrat of rebellion, emancipation, and reconstruction ..
Print Book, English, 1905
The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, O., 1905
6 preliminary leaves, [19]-425, [20] pages frontispiece, plates, portraits, facsimiles 25 cm
1844660
Mountain peaks
A puny babe
heroic surroundings
In Kenyon College
Works, Law, Slavery
Settles in Cadiz
Marries
Returns to Steubenville
Active in politics
Death of his idols
Great cases
a tragedy
Steubenville anecdotes and reminiscences
In Pittsburg
Wheeling bridge case
Other important litigation
meets Lincoln
Second Marriage
California land cases
Trial of Daniel E. Sickles
A new home
Election of 1860
A seething caldron
A remarkable memorandum
Gigantic battle for the union
Letter to Buchanan
Lincoln excoriated
Resumes the law
appoionted war minister
Work for a titan
Opening intercourse with McClellan
An era-creating order
Arbitrary arrests
general stone
Succeeds McClellan as General-in-chief
The famous "morning hour"
Approves McClellan's plans
Captures Norfolk
The lofty Dyer letter
Creates and fights a navy
A mutilated telegram saves McClellan
McClellan's threat to surrender
Great battle with the pen
Pope slaughtered
An everlasting indictment
McClellan reinstated
Slaves
Stanton the real emancipator
McClellan revieved
Stanton vindicated
Disappointed in Meade at Gettysburg
A thrilling rescue
Rosecrans saved
Newspaper hostility
war diary
Perfect autocracy
the military telegraph
Still the autocrat
military railroads
Prisoners of war
a heart-breaking duty
Raising troops
fearful draft riots
The fire in the rear
Hampton roads peace conference
The surrender
a rescuing hand
Lincoln's colossal blunder rectified
Celebrating and rejoicing
Lincoln assassinated
Stanton as acting-president
Conspirators captured and executed
Grand review
Sherman's affront
disbandment
Faithful lieutenants
Inaugurates reconstruction
military governors
Parting of the ways
Turmoil
rescuing Grant
Swinging around the circle
great letter to Ashley
Victorious over Johnson and his advisers
A patriotic conspiracy
A brief respite
the McCardle case
Answer the president
Besieged by the president
Congress at Stanton's feet
Impeachment fails
Stanton retires, out of funds
War, office secrets and episodes
Religion as a war force
Grant's criticisms
inside history
Heroic politics
great speeches for Grant
A struggling wreck
supreme bench
Death
Property
last will
Sidelights
gleams of character
Storm swept