Lincoln's Darkest Year

A portrait of a pivotal chapter in the Civil War, “featuring scheming politicians, bumbling generals, and an increasingly disheartened Northern public” (Brooks Simpson, author of Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822–1865 ). In Mr. Lincoln Goes to War , award-winning historian William Marvel focused on President Abraham Lincoln’s first year in office. In Lincoln’s Darkest Year , he paints a picture of 1862—again relying on recently unearthed primary sources and little-known accounts to