"The question of freedom or slavery: the coming of the Civil War", 1850-1860
"The approaching triumph of Mr. Lincoln": May-November 1860
"The momentous issue of Civil War": December 1860-March 1861
"The excitement has been intense": April-May 1861
"The greatest battle ever fought on this continent": June-July 1861
"What we are fighting for": August-October, 1861
"The darkest and gloomiest year": November 1861-January 1862
"The iron gunboats have settled the question": February-March 1862
"Operations seem everywhere to have come almost to a dead halt": April-May 1862
"In front of Richmond": June-July 1862
"Removing that dreadful evil": August-October 1862
"A people suffering fearfully": November 1862-January 1863
"If we win a battle": February-April 1863
A terrific crash of musketry": May-June 1863
"An action of gigantic magnitude": July 1863
"A desparate engagement": August-September 1863
"The shock of battle": October-Novembrer 1863
"By renouncing their treason": December 1863-February 1864
"Gen. Grant and staff arrived here to-day": March-April 1864
"We are going on to Richmond, depend upon it": May 1864
"Fighting has been going on nearly all day": June-July 1864
"There is no security from danger": August-September 1864
"The very life of the nation is at stake": October-December 1864
"No such thing as compromise": January-February 1865
"The great struggle is over": March-April 1865
"This hour of mourning and of gloom": April-May 1865
"What is to be done with the negro?": the era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877.
