TY - BOOK AU - Masur, Louis P. TI - Lincoln's hundred days: the Emancipation Proclamation and the war for the Union SN - 9780674066908 AV - E 453 .M398 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Slaves KW - United States KW - sears N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-335) and index; September 22, 1862: Lincoln tells a story -- Toward emancipation -- Messages and measures -- A new departure -- Movement -- Judgments -- The reactions of scholars and soldiers -- Intervention and election fever -- "We cannot escape history" -- Standing firm -- Jubilee -- "Men of color, to arms!" -- "It can not be retracted" -- Emancipation triumphant -- April 4, 1865: Lincoln visits Richmond N2 - Examines the period between when Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, and when he signed the final, significantly altered draft on January 1, 1863, discussing the events that impacted that changes to the document ER -