Lincoln and his admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War

1861: GETTING UNDER WAY. "What have I done wrong?": Lincoln and the Fort Sumter crisis

"A competent force": Lincoln and the blockade

"No affront to the British flag": Lincoln and the Trent affair

1862: CHARTING A COURSE. "Rain and the rebels out": Lincoln and the River war

"It strikes me there's something in it": Lincoln and the Monitor

"We cannot escape history": Lincoln and the contrabands

1863: TROUBLED WATERS. "The peninsula all over again": Lincoln, Charleston, and Vicksburg

"I shall have to cut this know": Lincoln as adjudicator

"Peace does not appear so distant as it did": Lincoln and the wartime politics

1864: FULL SPEED AHEAD. "A worthy object": Lincoln and the Red River campaign

"A vote of thanks" Lincoln and the politics of promotion

"I must refer you to General Grant": Lincoln relinquishes the conn

1865: FINAL HARBOR. Epilogue: "Thank God that I have lived to see this": Lincoln and the end of the war.