City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War

The definitive spellbinding story of the huge-and hugely conflicted-role New York City played in the Civil War.

"Populated by an epic cast of characters lurching through evocative tableaux at a breakneck pace, Mr. Strausbaugh's book stands alone, but never still."―The Wall Street Journal

Winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award for Best Nonfiction

No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort, or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men, money, and materiel for the war, ...