CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 DUELING REPUBLICS 4 CHAPTER 2 THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR ABRAHAM LINCOLN 14 CHAPTER 3 RELENTLESS REBEL JEFFERSON DAVIS 28 CHAPTER 4 THE MARBLE MODEL ROBERT E LEE 42 CHAPTER 5 UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER GRANT 54 CHAPTER 6 GREAT ROCK COMMANDER JAMES LONGSTREET 64 CHAPTER 7 TOTAL WAR WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN 74 CHAPTER 8 THE END AND THE AFTERMATH 84 TIMELINE ESSENTIAL FACTS GLOSSARY ADDITIONAL RESOURCES SOURCE NOTES INDEX 110 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 112 ABOUT THE
The two story Wigwam was a temporary wooden structure built by Chicago business leaders to host the 1860 Republican National Convention
CHAPTER 1 DUELING REPUBLICS On May 16 1860 delegates poured into Chicago Illinois for the Republican National Convention This gathering to nominate a candidate for president met in the Wigwam a barnlike building that held 12 000 people State delegates sat on the stage supporters crammed the floor below and spectators crowded into the aisles and gallery The Republican Party was only six years old Abolitionists had founded this political organization to halt the spread of slavery into the western territories Tensions over slavery had already divided Northerners and Southerners in the Democratic Party That split meant a Republican had a chance to win the US presidency in the November election
