Discusses Lincoln's presidency from the perspective of the second year of the Civil War, examining the actions of Lincoln and other military and political leaders as well as the hardships faced by ordinary citizens and public opposition to the war.

Part IA Procession Winding Around Me -- 1 Over Them the Swallows Skim 3 -- 2 Demons out of the Earth 37 -- 3 Spires of Richmond, Late Beheld 70 -- Part II So Shrill Your Bugles Blow -- 4 Torrents of Men 107 -- 5 Crowd of the Bloody Forms 140 -- 6 In Scarlet Maryland 175 -- Part III Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me -- 7 Whetting a Sword on a Bible 221 -- 8 Our Army Foiled with Loss Severe 256 -- 9 Cold Dirges of the Baffled 297.