And the war came : the slavery quarrel and the American Civil War

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And the War Came; And the War Came; by Donald J. Meyers; Table of Contents; Prologue. Eight Thousand Years of Slavery; 1. The Declaration: Liberty, but Not for All; 2. Uniting Around a Constitution, At a Cost; 3. The Missouri Compromise; 4. A Besieged South Circles the Wagons; 5. The "Gag" Rule Fight; 6. The Kansas-Nebraska Act: One Party Dead, The Other Split; 7. Abraham Lincoln in Illinois; 8. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: A Dark Horse; 9. Lincoln Elected, Seven States Defected; 10. An Act of War; 11. First Battle of Bull Run: Disillusion and Frustration 12. The Battle of Shiloh: Large-Scale Killing Shocks the Nation13. The Peninsula Campaign: McClellan spooked by Lee; 14. Second Bull Run and Antietam: Opportunity Squandered; 15. Slaughter at Fredericksburg, Jubilee with Emancipation; 16. The Battle of Chancellorsville: Lincoln's Depression Grows; 17. Gettysurg and Vicksburg: The Writing on the Wall; 18. The Battles of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge: General Grant; 19. Atlanta and McPherson Fall: Something Went Out of the War; 20. Confederate Disaster in Tennessee, And the 13th Amendment; 21. Lee Surrenders at Appomattox 22. Lincoln Assassinated, His Severe Task Done23. Abraham Lincoln: The Man John Quincy Adams was Looking For; Selected Bibliography; Index