Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Prologue xiii
Acknowledgments xix
1 Over-the-Rhine 1
2 Welcome to West Point 7
3 No Longer a Plebe 21
4 Early Career in New Orleans 30
5 Lincoln's Inauguration and War Begins 44
6 From Cincinnati to New Orleans 53
7 The Capture of New Orleans 62
8 Occupation of the Crescent City 71
9 The Lafourche Campaign 84
10 Fighting in the Bayous 99
11 Commanding Black Troops 116
12 Destroying the J. A. Cotton 125
13 Battle of Port Hudson 136
14 Thibodeaux and the Sabine Pass 152
15 Reunited: Drewry's Bluff and the Spring Campaign of 1864 166
16 Fort Fisher and Ben Butler's Powder Boat 183
17 Christmas Day 1864: Attack on Fort Fisher 196
18 The Trial of Benjamin F. Butler 209
19 Final Days of War 218
20 The Fall of the Confederacy 232
21 Entry into Richmond 242
22 Lincoln in Richmond 252
23 Political Troubles 265
24 Good Friday-Black Friday 278
25 Postwar Life of the Young General 285
Notes 297
Glossary 327
Bibliography 329
Index 333
About the Author 337