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An Epic History of Two Nations Divided

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First published by Allen Lane 2010

Published in Penguin Books 2011

Copyright Amanda Foreman, 2010

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ISBN: 978-0-14-190987-5

For the children

SECTION ONE

. Lord Lyons, British Ambassador in Washington ( US National Archives)

. The British legation (Washington DC Public Library)

. The partially completed Capitol, Washington ( US National Archives)

. President Lincolns inauguration (Library of Congress)

. The US Senate ( US Senate Collection)

. President Abraham Lincoln (Library of Congress)

. William Seward ( US National Archives)

. The Royal Exchange, London (Science and Society Picture Library)

. Cambridge House, home of Lord Palmerston (English Heritage)

. The chamber of the House of Commons, 1870 (Hulton Getty)

. Lord John Russell (National Portrait Gallery, London)

. Lord Palmerston (The Broadlands Archive, Hartley Library, University of Cambridge)

. Charles Sumner (Library of Congress)

. Frederick Douglass (Collection of the New-York Historical Society)

. Gideon Welles ( US National Archives)

. Salmon P. Chase (Library of Congress)

. General George McClellan ( US National Archives)

. The 69th New York Irish Regiment (Library of Congress)

. General William Sherman (National Archives)

. William Howard Russell (Hulton Getty)

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. Francis Lawley (British Library)

. Frank Vizetelly (Library of Congress)

SECTION TWO

. President Jefferson Davis ( US National Archives)

. President Daviss inauguration (Boston Atheneum)

. The Confederate White House, Richmond (Library of Congress)

. Richmond in 1862 ( US National Archives)

. General Robert E. Lee (Library of Congress)

. General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson ( US National Archives)

. Lees home at Arlington, Virginia ( US National Archives)

. General Josiah Gorgas (Smithsonian Institute)

. Judah P. Benjamin ( US National Archives)

. Stephen Mallory ( US National Archives)

. James and Irvine Bulloch (Mr Henry Skinner)

. Henry Hotze (courtesy of the Museum of Mobile)

. James M. Mason ( US National Archives)

. John Slidell (Library of Congress)

. The shipyard of Laird Brothers, Liverpool (Moorfields Photographic, Liverpool)

. Federal troops marching through New Orleans (Leonard V. Huber, New Orleans: A Pictorial History, Penguin (1991))

. Charles Francis Adams Jr. (Library of Congress)

. Henry Adams (Massachusetts Historical Society)

. Charles Francis Adams (Boston Atheneum)

. Henry Fielden (Collection of the South Carolina Historical Society)

. Francis Dawson (Francis Warrington Dawson papers, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library)

SECTION THREE

. A coloured regiment (Library of Congress)

. Contraband of war (Library of Congress)

. A slave auction house in Atlanta, Georgia (Library of Congress)

. The Rohrbach Bridge, Antietam ( US National Archives)

. The dead after Antietam (Library of Congress)

. Lincoln and McClellan after Antietam (Library of Congress)

. General Ambrose Burnside (Library of Congress)

. Fredericksburg (Library of Congress)

. Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg ( US National Archives)

. Admiral Raphael Semmes aboard the CSS Alabama ( US Naval Historical Centre)

. Commander Matthew Maury (Library of Congress)

. Lieutenant James Morgan (James Morris Morgan, Recollections of a Rebel Reefer, Houghton Mifflin (1917))

. Colonel John F. De Courcy (descendants of Maj. Milton Mills, 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry)

. Colonel Sir Percy Wyndham (Library of Congress)

. Dr Charles Culverwell (from the private collection of Sir George Newnes)

. Gettysburg (Library of Congress)

. Little Round Top, Gettysburg (Library of Congress)

. Diplomatic expedition to Trenton Falls ( US National Archives)

. Rose Greenhow and her daughter (Library of Congress)

. Belle Boyd (Library of Congress)

. General Braxton Bragg (Library of Congress)

. Civilians hunting for souvenirs after Chattanooga (Dubose Collection)

SECTION FOUR

. Jacob Thompson (Library of Congress)

. Clement C. Clay (Library of Congress)

. Confederate plotters at Niagara Falls (William A. Tidwell, Come Retribution, Barnes & Noble / University Press of Mississippi (1988))

. Mounted cannon ( US National Archives)

. Field artillery (Library of Congress)

. A Federal observation balloon (Library of Congress)

. General Ulysses S. Grant and his staff (Library of Congress)

. The aftermath of Cold Harbor (Library of Congress)

. CSS Alabama ( US National Archives)

. CSS Stonewall (Library of Congress)

. USS Kearsarge ( US National Archives)

. Fort Sedgwick (Library of Congress)

. The trenches at Petersburg ( US National Archives)

. Charleston at the end of the war ( US National Archives)

. Richmond after its fall ( US National Archives)

. The Victory Parade of the Union Army, 24 May 1865 (Library of Congress)

. The Capitol on 24 May 1865 (Library of Congress)

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. The British Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Richmond (Library of Congress)