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Tables of Contents for Representative Americans
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Part 1: The Coming of War
Stephen A. Douglas: The Struggle to Prevent a (Needless?) War
3
26
Frederick Douglass: The Case for a Just War
29
28
Harriet Tubman: Moses to Her People
57
22
Part 2: The Warriors
Stonewall Jackson: Christian Soldier
79
30
James Anderson: Infantryman in Blue
109
20
William Tecumesh Sherman: ``War Is Hell''
129
30
Part 3: Wartime Politics
William H. Seward: The Politician as Statesman
159
28
Judah P. Benjamin: Inside the Confederacy
187
20
Thaddeus Stevens: Avenging Idealist
207
28
Robert Smalls: From Slavery to Congress
235
26
Part 4: On the Perimeter of War
Clara Barton: The Medical War
261
22
Cornelius Vanderbilt: Capitalists at War
283
24
Crazy Horse: A Way of Life Gone Forever
307
28
John Wesley Powell and Clarence King: Charting the Virgin West
335
26
Index
361
12
About the Author
373