“A scholarly, compact, but not abstruse, treatment of the various aspects of the Civil war, economic and social as well as political and military.” Cleveland. Contains a bibliography and maps.
— Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: History (H.W. Wilson) 1929
Chapter headings are:
1. The Law of the Land 2. Secession
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. Civil War
5. Afloat and Abroad
6. 1862: McClellan and Emancipation
7. 1862: The Mississippi Valley
8. Ulysses S. Grant
9. Gettysburg and Reconstruction
10. The Balance of Power
11. The Union Party
12. The Confederate Collapse
Bibliographical Note