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CHAPTER XXVII.-EMANCIPATION.-CONSCRIPTION.
THE UNION AND SLAVERY. THE ABOLITIONISTS. NEW IDEAS ABOUT SLAVERY.-MASSA
LINKUM'S SOJERS.-BUTLER AND CONTRABANDS.-FREMONT'S PROCLAMATION.-HUNTER'S
ORDER.-PRESIDENT LINCOLN PROPOSES TO BUY THE SLAVES.-HIS LETTER ON THE
SUBJECT.-LINCOLN CHANGES HIS VIEWS ABOUT SLAVERY.-HIS FIRST EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION.-HIS VOW.-THE SECOND EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.-ITS EFFECT
IN THE SOUTH AND IN THE NORTH.-ARBITRARY ARRESTS.-SPIES.-COLORED SOLDIERS.
-THE CONSCRIPTION BILL.-DRAFTING.-RIOTS IN NEW YORK.....
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CHAPTER XXVIII.-VICKSBURG.
VICKSBURG.-ITS GREAT IMPORTANCE.-GRANT'S PLANS.-CAPTURE OF HOLLY SPRINGS.-
SHERMAN DEFEATED.-FORT HINDMAN TAKEN.-ARRIVAL OF GRANT.-CANAL DIGGING.
-JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON.-RUNNING THE BATTERIES.-GRIERSON'S RAID.-GRANT LANDS
AT BRUINSBURG.-BATTLE OF PORT GIBSON.-GRAND GULF EVACUATED.-SHERMAN JOINS
GRANT. TAKING A REST.-BATTLE OF RAYMOND.-CAPTURE OF JACKSON.-A GOOD
UNION MAN.-JEFF DAVIS'S BOOK.-BATTLE OF CHAMPION HILLS.-BATTLE OF BIG
BLACK RIVER. — BRIDGE BUILDING.-VICKSBURG SURROUNDED. - Two REPULSES. —
CALIBRE 54.-CAVE LIFE.-MINES AND COUNTERMINES.-SCARCITY OF FOOD.-GRANT AND
PEMBERTON. THE SURRENDER. EFFECTS OF THE BOMBARDMENT. THE HOTEL DE
VICKSBURG.-THE VICKSBURG CITIZEN. WHAT WAS GAINED AT VICKSBURG.- GRANT
AND THE STEAMBOAT MEN.....
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CHAPTER XXIX.-PORT HUDSON.-CHANCELLORSVILLE.
SHERMAN PURSUES JOHNSTON.-JACKSON BURNED.-SIEGE OF PORT HUDSON.-WHISTLING
DICK.-A BLOODY REPULSE.-MULES AND RATS.-THE SURRENDER.-THE MISSISSIPPI
OPENED.-BRASHEAR CITY.-ON DE LORD'S SIDE, MASSA.-THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
-CORPS BADGES.-MOSBY.-CAPTURE OF GENERAL STOUGHTON.-I CAN'T MAKE HORSES.
-HOOKER'S ADVANCE.-CHANCELLORSVILLE.-THE WILDERNESS. FRIGHTENED DEER
AND RABBITS.- ROUT OF THE ELEVENTH CORPS.-DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON.-
REMEMBER JACKSON. -HOOKER STUNNED. LEE BETWEEN TWO FIRES.- SEDGWICK
DRIVEN BACK.-HOOKER'S RETREAT.-STONEMAN'S RAID.-A GALLANT DEED...........
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CHAPTER XXX.-GETTYSBURG.
CONFEDERATE HOPES.-NAPOLEON AND MEXICO. - ANOTHER INVASION OF THE NORTH.-
THE TWO ARMIES.-STUART'S REVIEW.-EWELL SURPRISES MILROY.-THE POTOMAC
CROSSED. PENNSYLVANIA IN A PANIC.--HOOKER FOLLOWS LEE.-MEADE IN COMMAND.-
THE EYES OF AN ARMY.-GETTYSBURG.-THE FIRST DAY'S FIGHT.-DEATH OF REYNOLDS.
-HANCOCK TO THE FRONT. THE SECOND DAY'S FIGHT.-LITTLE ROUND TOP.-EWELL
ON CULP'S HILL-THE THIRD DAY'S FIGHT.-A GRAND BOMBARDMENT.-PICKETT AND
HIS VIRGINIANS.-A DREADFUL STRUGGLE.-VICTORY FOR THE UNION.-A TERRIBLE
RETREAT. WASTED AMMUNITION.-ÖLD JOHN BURNS.-JENNY WADE.-THE NEWS IN
RICHMOND,-MEADE FOLLOWS LEE.-WINTER QUARTERS..
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CHAPTER XXXI.-CHICKAMAUGA.-CHATTANOOGA.-KNOXVILLE.
ROSECRANS MOVES AGAINST BRAGG.-CAVALRY FIGHTS.-VAN DORN ATTACKS FRANKLIN.-
STREIGHT'S RAID.-JOHN MORGAN ACROSS THE OHIO.-INDIANA AND OHIO AROUSED.-
MORGAN DEFEATED HIS CAPTURE.-THE RAIDERS' PLUNDER.-AN OLD HERO.-CHAT-
TANOOGA. BRAGG FALLS BACK.-BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA.-THOMAS'S BRAVERY.-
ROSECRANS RETREATS TO CHATTANOOGA. JOHNNY CLEM.-HALF RATIONS.-GRANT IN
COMMAND. HE OPENS COMMUNICATIONS.-BURNSIDE IN EAST TENNESSEE.-ARRIVAL OF
SHERMAN. THE BATTLE ABOVE THE CLOUDS.-PULPIT ROCK.-STORMING OF MISSIONARY
RIDGE. HERE IS YOUR MULE. - BRAGG'S RETREAT. LONGSTREET'S DEFEAT.-SHER-
MAN'S MARCH TO KNOXVILLE.-STARVING ON ROAST TURKEY......................................
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXXII.-THE MONITORS.
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LOSS OF THE MONITOR,- THE MONTAUK AND THE NASHVILLE.-FORT MCALLISTER.-THE
CONFEDERATES ATTACK THE FLEET OFF CHARLESTON. THE MONITORS ATTACK
CHARLESTON.-THE NEW IRONSIDES.-CABLES AND TORPEDOES.-A TERRIBLE BOMBARD-
HENT.-LOSS of the KEOKUK.-CAPTURE OF THE ATLANTA.-NEW CONFEDERATE FLAG.
-1 DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR TORPEDOES.-GILLMORE AT CHARLESTON.-FORT WAG-
SER-MEN EIGHTEEN FEET HIGH WANTED.-THE SWAMP ANGEL.-SUMTER IN RUINS.-
TAKING OF MORRIS ISLAND.-ASSAULT ON SUMTER.-LOSS OF THE WEEHAWKEN.-NEW
BERNE ATTACKED.-LITTLE WASHINGTON.-RAIDS AND CONTRABANDS.-I'SE JUST SAM.. 387
CHAPTER XXXIII.-PRIVATEERS.-MOBILE BAY.
EXPEDITION TO FLORIDA.-BATTLE OF OLUSTEE.-LOSS OF PLYMOUTH.-RAID OF THE ALBE-
MARLE.-HER DESTRUCTION BY CUSHING.-THE CONFEDERATE PRIVATEERS.-THE ALA-
BAMA.-CAPTAIN SEMMES.-THE FIGHT WITH THE KEARSARGE-RESCUE OF SEMMES.—
THE FLORIDA AND THE WACHUSETT.- THE SHENANDOAH.- WHALERS BURNED. THE
LAST HOSTILE ACT.-RAMS FOR THE EMPEROR OF CHINA.-THE STONEWALL-THE ALA-
BAMA CLAIMS.-MOBILE BAY.-FARRAGUT PASSES THE FORTS.-THE ADMIRAL IN THE
SHROUDS.-SINKING OF THE TECUMSEH.-TORPEDOES.-FOUR BELLS.-THE RAM IS COM-
ING.-FIGHT WITH THE TENNESSEE.-RAMMING THE RAM.-SAVE THE ADMIRAL-SUR-
RENDER OF THE FORTS..
CHAPTER XXXIV.-THE SOUTH AND WEST.
SHERMAN'S MERIDIAN EXPEDITION.-JEFF DAVIS'S NECKTIES.-SHERMAN'S DANGER.-DE
DAY OB JUBILEE.- SMITH DEFEATED BY FORREST.-PADUCAH ATTACKED.-MASSACRE
AT FORT PILLOW. FORREST DEFEATS STURGIS. A RIDE INTO MEMPHIS.- SHERMAN
AND BANKS-THE ANVIL CHORUS.-THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION.-FORT DE RUSSEY.-
KIRBY SMITH AND DICK TAYLOR.-NATCHITOCHES.-BATTLE of MANSFIELD.-A SKEDAD-
DLE.-BATTLE OF PLEASANT HILL-LOSS OF THE EASTPORT.-THE DAM AT ALEXANDRIA.
-SAVING THE FLEET.-COTTON STEALING.-CANBY SUCCEEDS BANKS.-STEELE'S DEFEAT
IN ARKANSAS.-THE LAST INVASION OF MISSOURI.-PLEASONTON AND CURTIS.-PRICE'S
FLIGHT. JOHN MORGAN IN KENTUCKY AGAIN,-BURBRIDGE DEFEATS HIM.-MORGAN'S
DEATH.................................
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CHAPTER XXXV.-GRANT IN VIRGINIA.
THE CONFEDERACY IN 1863.-POVERTY AND PAPER MONEY.-CHRISTMAS IN RICHMOND.-
TREATMENT OF UNION PRISONERS.-EXCHANGES.-NEGRO SOLDIERS.-PRISON CAMPS.—
LIBBY PRISON. BELLE ISLE.-EFFORTS TO FREE PRISONERS.- ULRIC DAHLGREN.-A
MINE UNDER LIBBY.-GRANT MADE LIEUTENANT-GENERAL.- HIS COMMISSION.- GRANT
WITH THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.-HIS PLAN. THE RAPIDAN CROSSED.-BAttle of
THE WILDERNESS.-LEE IN DANGER.-LONGSTREET WOUNDED.-FIRE IN THE WOODS.-
THE MARCH TO SPOTTSYLVANIA.-SHARPSHOOTERS.-DEATH OF SEDGWICK.-BATTLE OF
SPOTTSYLVANIA.-1 PROPOSE TO FIGHT IT OUT ON THIS LINE.-HANCOCK AND STEwart.
-DANGER OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.— TERRIBLE MUSKETRY FIRE.-GRANT AGAIN
MARCHES SOUTHWARD...........
CHAPTER XXXVI.-GRANT AND LEE.
BUTLER AT BRMUDA HUNDRED.--BEAUREGARD ATTACKS HIM.-BOTTLED UP.-CROOK'S
RAID.-MORGAN DEFEATS AVERILL.-BRECKINRIDGE DEFEATS SIGEL.-BATTLE OF PIED.
MONT-HUNTER IN WEST VIRGINIA. SHERIDAN AND STUART.- BATTLE AT YELLOW
TAVERN.-DEATH OF STUART.-LEE AT COLD HARBOR.-CAVALRY FIGHT.-BATTLE OF
COLD HARBOR.- GRANT'S CHANGE OF BASE. TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER. — THE ARMY
CROSSES THE JAMES.-PETERSBURG ATTACKED.- EARLY CROSSES THE POtomac. —
BATTLE OF THE MONOCACY.--BALTIMORE EXCITED.-CAPTURE OF GENERAL FRANKLIN.
-HIS ESCAPE.-EARLY ATTACKS WASHINGTON. HE IS DRIVEN BACK TO VIRGINIA. -
DEFEAT OF CROOK. CONFEDERATE CAVALRY IN PENNSYLVANIA. CHAMBERSBURG
BURNED.- SHERIDAN IN COMMAND.- Battle of OPEQUAN CREEK.- FISHER'S HILL.-
CEDAR CREEK.-SHERIDAN'S RIDE.-THE PETERSBURG MINE,-HANCOCK'S FIGHT.-THE
WELDON RAILROAD.-DUTCH GAP CANAL......
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CHAPTER XXXVII.-ATLANTA CAMPAIGN.
JOHNSTON AND SHERMAN. THE TWO ARMIES. - CARS AND LOCOMOTIVES WANTED.—
THOMAS'S CIRCUS. — DALTON TO RESACA. — DALLAS.-NEW HOPE CHURCH. — ROME
TAKEN.-KENESAW MOUNTAIN.-BRAVE ENGINEER-Death of GeneRAL POLK.-BAD
WEATHER.-WOOD TICKS.-SHERMAN REPULSED.-JOHNSTON CROSSES THE CHATTA-
HOOCHEE. ROUSSEAU'S RAID. ARE THESE YANKS? HOOD SUCCEEDS JOHNSTON.—
ATLANTA.-HOOD'S SALLY.-HE FIGHTS AGAIN.-DEATH OF MCPHERSON.-RAIDS ON
THE RAILROADS.-HOOD STRIKES A THIRD TIME.-SIEGE OF ATLANTA-HOOD CUT
OFF.-EVACUATION OF ATLANTA.-HONORS TO SHERMAN.-ATLANTA DESOLATED.-Davis
VISITS HOOD.- HOOD MARCHES NORTHWARD.- ALLATOONA.- SIGNALLING. A DUPLI-
CATE TUNNEL.-ATLANTA IN ASHES.-GLORY, HALLELUJAH!-GRANT IS WAITING FOR
Us!..
CHAPTER XXXVIII.-MARCH TO THE SEA.
ANXIETY IN 1864.-Grant and LEE.-SECRETARY Chase AND THE FINANCES.-GREENBACKS,
-GOLD.-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.-NEWS FROM ATLANTA.-COPPERHEADS.- RE-ELEC-
TION OF LINCOLN.— ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.- HOOD MARCHES NORTHWARD.- BATTLE
OF FRANKLIN.-SIEGE OF NASHVILLE.-THOMAS'S VICTORY.-FLIGHT OF HOOD.-SHER-
MAN'S ARMY.-ORDERS FOR FORAGING.-JEFF. DAVIS'S NECKTIES.-CONTRABANDS.-DEY
SAY YOU'S MASSA SHERMAN.-BUMMERS.-MARCHING AND CAMPING.-SOLDIERS' PETS.-
PET PIGEON.-OLD ABE, THE WAR EAGLE. MILLEDGEVILLE.-— BEAUREGARD AGAIN.-
SOLDIERS' FUN.-CAVALRY SKIRMISHES.-PRISON PEN.-ANDERSONVILLE.-TORPEDOES.—
DEFENCES OF SAVANNAH.-STORMING OF FORT MCALLISTER.-SAVANNAH AS A CHRIST-
MAS GIFT.....
CHAPTER XXXIX.-SAVANNAH TO GOLDSBORO.
SECRETARY STANTON IN SAVANNAH.-POLITICS.-SHERMAN DISGUSTED.-EXPEDITION AGAINST
FORT FISHER.-BUTLER'S POWDER-BOAT.-HEAVY BOMBARDMENT.-GENERAL TERRY SUC-
CEEDS BUTLER.-BRAGG AGAIN.-GOOD-BY, WILMINGTON !-CAPTURE OF FORT FISHER.—
GENERAL SCHOFIELD.-WILMINGTON TAKEN.-GOLDSBORO ENTERED.-SHERMAN'S MARCH
FROM SAVANNAH.-WHEELER AND HAMPTON.-FLOODS.-THE SALKEHATCHIE.-HORRORS
OF WAR.-SOUTH CAROLINA PUNISHED.-COTTON BURNING.-COLUMBIA SURRENDERED —
BURNING OF THE CITY.-CONFEDERATE MONEY.-HARDEE EVACUATES CHARLESTON.-THE
CITY IN FLAMES.-DESOLATION.-SUMTER AND THE FLAG.-Jus' Look at HIS HOSS.-
CHERAW.-JOHNSTON AGAIN IN COMMAND.-HAMPTON AND KILPATRICK.--FAYETTEVILLE
-AVERYSBORO.-BATTLE OF BENTONSVILLE.-Goldsboro.-SHERMAN VISITS GRANT.—
PRESIDENT LINCOLN.-SHERMAN RETURNS TO GOLDSBORO...
CHAPTER XL.-MOBILE.
STONEMAN'S RAID.-SALISBURY.-MOBILE.-WILSON'S RAID.-FIGHT WITH FORREST.-TAK-
ING OF SELMA.-COTTON BURNING.-SURRENDER OF MONTGOMERY.-CAPTURE OF COLUM-
BUS.-IRON-CLAD RAMS.- MACON.-JOYFUL NEWS.- DEFENCES OF MOBILE.- CANBY'S
PLAN.-SPANISH FORT.-STORMING OF BLAKELY.-SURRENDER OF MOBILE......................
CHAPTER XLI.-PETERSBURG.
THE CONFEDERACY IN 1865.-CONSCRIPTION AND DESERTION.-NEGRO SOLDIERS.-CONFED-
ERATE MONEY.-LEE'S ARMY.-DISSATISFACTION WITH DAVIS.-LEE COMMANDER-IN-
CHIEF.-MRS. DAVIS.-FOREIGN AID EXPECTED. -PEACE EFFORTS.-WAR MEETINGS IN
RICHMOND. DESOLATION IN VIRGINIA.-CHRISTMAS IN 1864.-WAR PRICES.- DINNER-
PARTY. SOUTHSIDE RAILROAD. - DINWIDDIE COURT-HOUSE.- ARMY TELEGRAPH.—
SHERIDAN'S RAID.-EARLY DEFEATED.-CHARLOTTESVILLE.-LEE'S LAST ATTACK.—
FORT STEEDMAN.-SHERIDAN AGAIN IN THE SADDLE.-FIVE FORKS.-GRAND ASSAULT
ON PETERSBURG.-FORT ALEXANDER.-FORT GREGG.-DEATH OF A. P. HILL.-LEE'S
TELEGRAM.-PETERSBURG AT LAST!.
CHAPTER XLII.-RICHMOND.
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SUNDAY IN RICHMOND.-RUMORS OF VICTORY.-GAYETY OF THE CITY.-PRAYER-MEETINGS.—
DAVIS RECEIVES LEE'S TELEGRAM.-THE NEWS KEPT SECRET.- EVACUATION.- CONFU
SION. THE CITY IN THE HANDS OF THE MOB.-PILLAGING THE STORES.-THE TOBACCO
WAREHOUSES FIRED.-RAMS BLOWN UP.- BRIDGES BURNED.-THE FIRE SPREADS.-A
DREADFUL SCENE.-CAPITOL SQUARE.-THE YANKEES! THE YANKEES !--BURNING RICH-
MOND SEEN FROM THE SIGNAL-TOWER.-GENERAL WEITZEL ENTERS THE CITY.-THE
FLAG ON THE CAPITOL.-AN AFRICAN CITY.-BRESS DE LORD! NO MO' WORK!-BLACK
CAVALRY.-MARTIAL LAW.-THE RUINS.-THE DREAM ENDED.........
CHAPTER XLIII.-SURRENDER OF LEE.
LEE'S MISFORTUNE.-DAVIS AT DANVILLE.-A FATAL DELAY.-GRANT IN PURSUIT.-SHERI-
DAN.-A STARVING ARMY.-SAILOR'S CREEK.-CAPTURE OF EWELL-ACROSS THE APPO
MATTOX-A HOPELESS STRUGGLE.GRANT'S LETTER. -- LEE ASKS FOR TERMS. ---
APPOMATTOX COURT-HOUSE. SHERIDAN IN FRONT.-A SURPRISE.-FLAG OF TRUCE.--
THE MCLEAN HOUSE.-GRANT AND LEE.-GRANT'S MAGNANIMITY.-PAINFUL SCENE.-
LEE IN RICHMOND.-LAST PARADE OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.-JOY IN THE
NORTH.-STANTON'S ORDER................
CHAPTER XLIV.-DEATH OF LINCOLN.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN IN RICHMOND.-HIS LAST SPEECH.-THREATS OF ASSASSINATION.-
GRANT IN WASHINGTON.-ROBERT LINCOLN.-LEE'S SURRENDER.-AT THE THEATRE.
-JOHN WILKES BOOTH.-THE FATAL SHOT.-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-THE ASSASSIN'S
ESCAPE.-DEATH OF LINCOLN.-POWELL ATTACKS SECRETARY SEWARD.-REWARD FOR
JEFFERSON DAVIS.-DEATH OF BOOTH.-UNIVERSAL SORROW.-WITH MALICE TOWARD
NONE.-FUNERAL HONORS.-AT REST.-PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
CHAPTER XLV.-JOHNSTON.-DAVIS.
SHERMAN MARCHES AGAINST JOHNSTON.-JOY AT LEE'S SURRENDER.-JOHNSTON'S Letter.
-AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE.-BAD NEWS.-MEETING WITH JOHNSTON.-SECOND INTER-
VIEW.-BRECKINRIDGE -THE TERMS REJECTED.-GRANT IN RALEIGH.-SURRENDER OF
JOHNSTON. STANTON'S INSULTS. -- HALLECK AND SHERMAN. - SURRENDER OF KIRBY
SMITH.--PRESIDENT DAVIS'S FLIGHT.-DANVILLE.-PLEASING DREAMS.-A LAST PROC-
LAMATION.-LEE ANXIOUSLY LOOKED FOR.-HOPE CRUSHED.-DAVIS, JOHNSTON, AND
BEAUREGARD. - CHARLOTTE. — REPORTS OF TREASURE.SCRAMBLE FOR MONEY.-
CAVALRY ON THE TRAIL.-CONfederate PlunDERERS. — IRWINSVILLE. THE CAMP
SURPRISED.-FATAL MISTAKE.-HA! FEDERALS! THE STORY OF THE DISGUISE. THE
CAPTURE.-FORTRESS MONROE.-PARDON.....................................
CHAPTER XLVI.-PEACE.
GRAVE FEARS. THE SOLDIERS WELCOME PEACE.-Drafting Stopped.-DisbandinG THE
ARMIES.-STANTON.-WELLES.-THE LAST REVIEW.-GRAND RECEPTION IN WASHING-
TON. THE SOLDIERS AT HOME.-HONORS TO THE DEAD. - CONFEDERATE ARMIES. -
SUMMARY OF LOSSES.-THE COST OF THE WAR.-POLITICAL QUESTIONS.-CAUSES AND
RESULTS OF THE WAR.-THE UNION PERPETUAL...
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