Lincoln as Commander in Chief / James M. McPherson -- Commander in Chief Lincoln and General Grant / John Y. Simon -- "You must either attack Richmond or give up the job and come to the defence of Washington" : Abraham Lincoln and the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign / Gary W. Gallagher -- Men, machines, and old Abe : Lincoln and the Civil War Navy / Craig L. Symonds -- Abraham Lincoln and William T. Sherman : the cause was Union / John F. Marszalek -- "If I had gone up there, I could have whipped them myself" : Lincoln's military fantasies / Gerald J. Prokopowicz -- "In for four years more" : the Army of Northern Virginia and the United States presidential election of 1864 / J. Tracy Power -- "A matter of profound wonder" : the women in Lincoln's life / Frank J. Williams -- Mary Lincoln : symbol, historical target, and human being / Jean H. Baker -- Abraham Lincoln's body and body politic : two puzzles in mid-nineteenth-century American political language and culture / Iver Bernstein -- The new Gettysburg Address : a study in illusion / Barry Schwartz -- Abraham Lincoln's reputation during his administration / Hans L. Trefousse -- the Lincoln grail : the great collectors and their great collections / Harold Holzer