Abe Lincoln’s Secret War Against The North.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Lincoln's War Against New York -- Overview of Pre-War Political and Commercial New York -- New York City: Molded By Democratic Party Philosophy -- Kansas-Nebraska Act Creates the Republican Party -- Republicans Destroy New York City's Charter -- Fernando Wood: One Man Rule vs. One Party Rule -- Fernando Wood Wants New York City to Secede From Albany -- New York on the Edge of War -- The War Begins -- Federal Draft Leads To Battle of New York -- The Enrollment Act -- The Battle Begins -- Police and Troops Counter-Attack -- Union Victory -- Second Invasion of New York -- The Military and Fraudulent Voting -- The Fall of New York City -- Lincoln's Andersonville: Elmira New York -- Elmira's Earlier History -- Lincoln Nationalizes Elmira -- Prisoner Exchange -- The End of Prisoner Exchange Leads to Retaliation -- Stocker, New Chief Surgeon -- Attempts To Investigate Conditions At Elmira -- Special Order 336 -- All Aid Rejected -- Mass Burials for POWs and Civilians -- Final Official and Real Death Rate -- Republicans Reconstruct New York Like the South -- Radicals and Radical Social "Reform" -- The Policies of Fire Protection -- Boss Tweed: Democrats Counter One Party Rule -- Labor -- Democrats Regain the City -- Tweed's Fall From Grace -- The Radical Constitutional Convention -- Appointed vs. Elected Officials: Commissions -- Radicals Continue War-Time Loyalty Oaths -- No Habeas Corpus In Peace-Time -- Military Trials in 20th Century -- Elimination of Senate Aids Autocracy -- Black Suffrage -- Black Suffrage and The Enforcement Act -- Results of Constitutional Convention -- Chapter 2. Lincoln's Invasion of Maryland -- Maryland Remains Loyal to Union -- Before Fort Sumter Lincoln Prepares for War -- The Constitution Permits Secession -- Outbreak of War Against Maryland.

Lincoln Arrests Maryland Legislature -- One Party Rule for Maryland -- Governor Hicks Joins Lincoln -- The Merryman Case: Lincoln Defies Supreme Court -- Lincoln and England Recognize the Confederacy -- Text of the Secret Dispatch -- The United States Recognizes Confederacy -- The Antietam Campaign and Its Aftermath -- Aftermath of Antietam for Civilians -- Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation -- Horatio Seymour speaks on "False Emancipation Proclamation" -- Lincoln: Emancipation Proclamation is Unconstitutional -- Maryland and the Battle of Gettysburg -- Third Invasion of Maryland -- Maryland Reconstructed Like the South -- New Constitution Rejected, Legalized by Military -- Post-War Maryland -- Thomas Swann, Next Governor of Maryland -- Chapter 3. Oliver P. Morton, Indiana's War Governor: "I Am The State" -- Overview of Indiana's Pre-War History -- Oliver P. Morton, War-Time Governor -- Lincoln and Morton Compared -- Morton Fuses Military with Politics for Dictatorship -- Events Leading to "I Am the State" -- Milo Hascall: Morton's Press Dictator -- Camp Morton -- John Wyeth, A POW, Reveals Truth about Camp Morton -- The Plan to Free POWs and Assassinate Oliver P. Morton -- The Northwest Confederacy -- Again, The Plan To Assassinate Morton -- Lambden Milligan: The Second Indianapolis Treason Trial -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Lincoln's Annihilation of Missouri -- Reverend Miller: Witness to Aftermath of Atrocities -- Background to the War in Missouri -- The Missouri Compromise -- Governor Jackson: Misrepresented as Secessionist -- Overview of Governor Jackson's Career -- Nathaniel Lyon: Lincoln's Agent Provocateur -- The Camp Jackson Massacre: War -- Enter Sterling Price -- Harney-Price Agreement -- Missouri Not Legally Admitted To Confederacy -- Hamilton Gamble, Provisional Governor -- Convention Above Constitution -- Radicals Declare War On Gamble.

Charles Drake and the Rise of the Ultra-Radicals -- The Guerrilla War -- The Sack of Lawrence, Kansas -- Order No. 11 -- The Confederacy's Van Dorn, Price, Pea Ridge -- Price's Last Hurrah: Corinth to Westport -- Battle of Helena -- Lincoln and the Last Hurrah at Westport -- After the War, Missouri "Reconstructed" Like the Confederacy -- Congressional Reconstruction -- Missouri's New Constitution: One Party Rule -- False Atrocity Stories Strengthen Disenfranchisement -- Frank Blair: Radical to Conservative -- Oaths for Clergy: Fusing Church, State, and Military -- New Constitution Mandates State-Funded Schools -- The Freedmen's Bureau: Educating Ex-Slaves, Rebels, and the "Disloyal" -- The Freedmen's Bureau Becomes the Bureau of Education -- The End of Radical Rule In Missouri -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index.

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