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Scott Ellsworths Midnight on the Potomac is a narrative history of the final year of the American Civil War, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the political and social transition that followed Union victory. Rather than treating 1865 as an inevitable endpoint, the book emphasizes uncertainty: battlefield reversals, war weariness, the 1864 presidential election, covert Confederate activity, and the unresolved meaning of emancipation. Ellsworth, a historian and nonfiction writer known for works on American race and public memory, combines military, political, social, and espionage history in a broad account aimed at general readers as well as Civil War enthusiasts. The book places familiar figures such as Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and John Wilkes Booth alongside less frequently foregrounded participants, including soldiers, formerly enslaved people, civilians, and female war correspondent Lois Adams. Its purpose is not only to recount the wars end, but to show how fragile national survival remained until the last moment.