THE

AMERICAN CONFLICT:

A HISTORY

OF

THE GREAT REBELLION

IN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

1860-'65.

ITS

CAUSES, INCIDENTS, AND RESULTS:

INTENDED TO EXHIBIT ESPECIALLY ITS MORAL AND POLITICAL PHASES,

WITH THE

DRIFT AND PROGRESS OF AMERICAN OPINION

RESPECTING

HUMAN SLAVERY

From 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union.

BY HORACE GREELEY.

ILLUSTRATED BY PORTRAITS ON STEEL OF GENERALS, STATESMEN, AND OTHER EMINENT MEN: VIEWS OF
PLACES OF HISTORIC INTEREST: MAPS, DIAGRAMS OF BATTLE-FIELDS, NAVAL

ACTIONS, ETC. FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES.

VOL. II.

HARTFORD:

PUBLISHED BY O. D. CASE AND COMPANY.
LONDON: STEVENS BROTHERS,

17 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W. O.

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In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut.

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CASE, LOCKWOOD & CO.,

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ΤΟ

THE UNION VOLUNTEERS

OF 1861-4:

WHO FLEW TO THE RESCUE OF THEIR IMPERILED COUNTRY

BECAUSE

THEY SO LOVED HER

THAT THEY JOYFULLY PROFFERED THEIR OWN LIVES TO SAVE HERS;

This Volume,

BEING A RECORD OF

THEIR PRIVATIONS, HARDSHIPS, AND SUFFERINGS,

AS ALSO OF THEIR

VALOR, FIDELITY, CONSTANCY, AND TRIUMPH,

Is Respectfully Inscribed

BY

THE AUTHOR.