1 Preface 2 Acknowledgments 3 Illustrations 4 Timeline of the Civil War 5 Chapter 1. Jessie Benton Frémont, September 1861 6 Chapter 2. Carl Schurz, Spring and Fall 1862 7 Chapter 3. Beecher Family, December 1862 and February 1865 8 Chapter 4. Frederick Douglass, August 1863 and August 1864 9 Chapter 5. Anna Dickinson, January and Spring 1864 10 Chapter 6. William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, March 1862, January 1863, and June 1864 11 Chapter 7. Sojourner Truth, October 1864 12 Chapter 8. Conclusion: Lincoln and His Visitors 13 Bibliography