CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Review of the Battle of Chancellorsville.-Two Defects in the Victory of the Con-

federates.-

.--"The Finest Army on the Planet."-Analysis of the Victory.-General-

ship of Lee.-Services and Character of the great Confederate Leader.-His Com-

monplaces and his Virtues.-The Situation in Virginia.-Lee's Preparations for the

Summer Campaign.-Hooker to be Maneuvered out of Virginia.-Reorganization of

Lee's Army.-The Affair of Brandy Station.-THE CAPTURE OF WINCHESTER.-The

Affair of Aldie's Station.-Lee's Army Crossing the Potomac.-Invasion of Pennsyl-

vania.-Alarm in the North.-Hooker Out-Generalled and Removed.-The Mild

Warfare of the Confederate Invaders.-Southern "Chivalry."-General Lee's Error.

-His Splendid March from Culpepper Court House to Gettysburg.-Feverish Anti-

cipations in Richmond.-THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.-First Day's Engagement.-

A Regiment of Corpses.-Charge of Gordon's Brigade.-The Nine Mississippi

Heroes. The Yankees Driven through Gettysburg.-A Fatal Mistake of the Con-

federates.-General Lee's Embarrassments.-THE SECOND DAY.-Cemetery Hill.-

Early's Attack Almost a Success.-Adventure of Wright's Brigade.-THE THIRD

DAY.-Sublime Terrors of the Artillery.--Heroic and Ever-Memorable Charge of

Pickett's Division on the Heights.-Half a Mile of Shot and Shell.-Pickett's Sup-

ports Fail.-The Recoil.-General Lee's Behavior.-His Greatness in Disaster.-Im-

mense Carnage.-Death of General Barksdale, "the Haughty Rebel."-General Lee's

Retreat. The Affair of Williamsport.-Lee Recrosses the Potomac.-Success of his

Retreat.-Yankee Misrepresentation.-Review of the Pennsylvania Campaign.-Half

of Lee's Plans Disconcerted at Richmond.-Results of the Battle of Gettysburg Ne-

gative.-Lee's Retreat Across the Potomac an Inconsequence.--Disappointment in

Richmond. The Budget of a Single Day in the Confederate Capital........ PAGE 13

CHAPTER II.

Vicksburg, "the Heroic City."-Its Value to the Confederacy.-An Opportunity

Lost by Butler. - Lieutenant-general Pemberton.-A Favorite of President Da-

vis.-The President's Obstinacy.-Blindness of Pemberton to the Enemy's De

signs. His Telegram to Johnston.-Plan of U. S. Grant.-Its Daring.-THE BATTLE

OF PORT GIBSON.-Exposure of General Bowen by Pemberton.-The First Mistake.—

Pemberton's Disregard of Johnston's Orders.-Grant's advance against Jackson.—

Johnston's Evacuation of Jackson.-His Appreciation of the Situation.-Urgent Or-

ders to Pemberton.-A Brilliant Opportunity.-Pemberton's Contumacy and Stupid-

ity. His Irretrievable Error.-Yankee Outrages in Jackson.-THE BATTLE OF BAKER'S

CREEK, &c.-Stevenson's Heroic Fight.-Alleged Dereliction of General Loring.-

His Division Cut Off in the Retreat.-Demoralization of Pemberton's Troops.-The

Enemy's Assault on the Big Black.-Shameful Behavior of the Confederates.-A

Georgia Hero.-Pemberton and the Fugitives.-His Return to Vicksburg.-Recrim-

inations as to the Disaster of the Big Black.--How Pemberton Was in the Wrong.-

Johnston Orders the Evacuation of Vicksburg.-Pemberton's Determination to

Hold It....
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CHAPTER III. `

The Defences of Vicksburg.-Pemberton's Force.-His Troops Reinspirited.-A

Memorable Appeal.-Grant's Assault on the Works.-Confidence of the Yankees.-

Their Repulse and Losses.-Commencement of Siege Operations.-Confidence in

Richmond.-Johnston's Secret Anticipation of the Fall of Vicksburg.--His Alleged

Inability to Avert it.-Critical Condition of the Confederate Armies in Numbers.-

Secret Correspondence of Richmond Officials.-Mr. Seddon's Bait of Flattery.-Suf-

ferings of the Garrison of Vicksburg.-Johnston's Attempt to Extricate them.-Pro-

posed Diversion in the Trans-Mississippi.-Its Failure.-A Message from Pemberton.

A Gleam of Hope.-An Important Despatch Miscarries.-The Garrison Unable to

Fight Their Way Out.-But Their Condition not Extreme.-Pemberton's Surrender

on the Fourth of July.-Surprise in Richmond-Mendacity of the Telegraph.-The

Story of the Rats and Mules.-Pemberton's Statement as to his Supplies.-His Ex-

planation as to the Day of Surrender.-The last Incident of Humiliation.-Behavior

of the Vicksburg Population.-A Rival of "The Beast."-Appearance and Manners

of the City under Yankee Rule.-Consequences of the Fall of Vicksburg.-THE YAN-

KEE REOCCUPATION OF JACKSON.-Johnston's Second Evacuation.-The Enemy's Rav-

ages in Mississippi.-How they Compared with Lee's Civilities in Pennsylvania.—

THE FALL OF PORT HUDSON, &c.--Enemy's Capture of Yazoo City.--THE BATTLE

OF HELENA.--THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI.-Repulse of the Confederates.-Abandonment

of Little Rock.-The Trials and Sufferings of the Trans-Mississippi Department.-

Hindman's Memorable Rule.-Military Autocracy.-The Generous and Heroic Spirit

of the Trans-Mississippi....
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CHAPTER IV.

Elasticity of the Spirit of the Confederacy.-What it Taught.-Decay of Confi-

dence in President Davis's Administration.-His Affection for Pemberton.-A Season

of Encouraging Events.-THE CAMPAIGN IN LOWER LOUISIANA.-Capture of Brashear

City.--The Affair of Donaldson.-THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON.-Operations of the

Enemy on Folly Island.-General Beauregard's Embarrassments.-Assault of the

Enemy of Fort Wagner.-His Foothold on Morris Island.--Beauregard's Designs.--

Bombardment of Fort Wagner.-Second Repulse of the Enemy's Assault.-Gilmore's

Insolent Demand.-His Attempt to Fire Charleston.--A Noble Reply from Beaure-

gard.-Bombardment of Fort Sumter.-The Fort in Ruins.-Evacuation of Morris

Island by the Confederates.-The Yankee Congratulations.-Devilish Penalties for

"the Secession City."-Dahlgren's Part of the Programme.-His Night Attack on

Sumter.--His Failure.-Safety of Charleston.-Bitterness of Yankee Disappointment.

--MORGAN'S EXPEDITION INTO INDIANA AND OHIO.-His Capture of Lebanon.-An

Unnatural Encounter.-Murder of Captain Magennis.-The Incursion Through Indi-

ana.-The Yankee Pursuit.-A Chaplain's Trick.-Operations in Ohio.-The Affair

of Buffington Island.--Morgan's Attempt to Escape.-His Capture and Imprison-

ment.-Results of his Expedition, Strategic and Material.-The Value of Military

Adventure...
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CHAPTER V.

Contrast between our Military Fortunes in the East and in the West.-Some

Reasons for our Success in Virginia.-Her Hearty Co-operation with the Confederate

Authorities. Her Contributions to the War.-General Bragg's Situation in Tennes-

see.-Confederate criticisms on General Rosecrans.-Opinion of the "Chattanooga

Rebel."-An Extensive Movement Contemplated by Rosecrans.-Bragg's Retreat to

Chattanooga.-The Yankees on a Double Line of Operations.-Buckner's Evacuation

of Knoxville. THE SURRENDER OF CUMBERLAND GAP.-President Davis's Comment

on the Surrender.-THE BATTLES OF CHICKAMAUGA.-Braggs' Evacuation of Chatta-

nooga. Topography of the Battlefield.-Thomas's Column of Yankees in McLemore's

Cove.-Disobedience of Orders by Lieutenant-general Hill of the Confederates.—

Bragg's Orders to Lieutenant-general Polk.-Two Opportunities Lost. Note:

Bragg's Secret and Official Report of the Miscarriage of His Plans.-The First Day's

Engagement on the Chickamauga.-Second Day.-General Polk's Fight on our

Right.-Longstreet's Successful Attack on the Left.-The Grand Charge.-Rout of

the Enemy.-Longstreet's Message to Bragg.-Forrest Up a Tree.-Bragg Declines to

Pursue. His Hesitation and Error.-His Movement upon Chattanooga.-Boast of

Rosecrans. An Empty Victory for the Confederates.-Bragg's Awkward Pause.-

Discussions of the Campaign.-His Supposed Investment of Chattanooga.-Two

Blunders of the Confederate Commander.-Chickamauga a Second Edition of Bull

Run. Note: Observations of a General Officer of the Confederate States Army on

the Campaign in the West....
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CHAPTER VI.

Political Movements in the Fall of 1863.-The "Peace Party" in the North.-The

Yankee Fall Elections.-The War Democrats in the North.-The South's Worst

Enemies.-Yankee Self-Glorification.-Farragut's Dinner-Party.-The Russian Ban-

quet.-Russia and Yankeedom.-The Poles and the Confederates.-THE POLITICAL

TROUBLES IN KENTUCKY.-Bramlette and Wickcliffe.-The Democratic Platform in

Kentucky.-Political Ambidexterity.-Burnside's Despotic Orders.-The Kentucky

"Board of Trade."-An Election by Bayonets.-The Fate of Kentucky Sealed.-OUR

EUROPEAN RELATIONS.-Dismissal of the Foreign Consuls in the Confederacy.-

Seizure of the Confederate "Rams" in England.-The Confederate Privateers.-

Their Achievements.-British Interests in Privateering.-The Profits of So-called

"Neutrality."-NAVAL AFFAIRS OF THE CONFEDERACY.--Embarrassments of Our

Naval Enterprise.—The Naval Structures of the Confederates.—LEE's FLANK MOVE-

MENT IN VIRGINIA.-Affair of Bristoe Station.-Failure of Lee's Plans.-Meade's

Escape to Centreville.-Imboden's Operations in the Valley.--Capture of Charlestown.

---OPERATIONS AT RAPPAHANNOCK BRIDGE.-Kelley's Ford.-Surprise and Capture of

Hayes' and Hoke's Brigades.-Gallantry of Colonel Godwin.-Lee's Army on the

Rapidan.-THE AFFAIR OF GERMANIA FORD.-Meade Foiled.-The "On-to-Rich-

mond" Delayed..........
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CHAPTER VII.

The Chattanooga Lines.-Grant's Command.-The Military Division of the Missis-

sippi.-Scarcity of Supplies in Chattanooga.-Wheeler's Raid.-Grant's Plans.--He

Opens the Communications of Chattanooga.-THE AFFAIR OF LOOKOUT VALLEY.-

Relief of Chattanooga.-THE BATTLE OF MISSIONARY RIDGE.-Bragg's Unfortunate

Detachment of Longstreet's Force.-His Evacuation of Lookout Mountain.-The

Attack on Missionary Ridge.-Hardee's Gallant Resistance.-Rout and Panic of the

Confederates.-President Davis's First Reproof of the Confederate Troops.--Bragg's

Retreat to Dalton.-Cleburne's Gallant Affair.-LONGSTREET'S EXPEDITION AGAINST

KNOXVILLE.-More of Bragg's Mismanagement.-Insufficiency of Longstreet's Force.

-Difficulty in Obtaining Supplies.--His Investment of Knoxville.-An Incident of

Personal Gallantry.-Daring of an English Volunteer.--Longstreet's Plans Discon-

certed. The Assault on Fort Sanders.-Devotion of Longstreet's Veterans.--The

Yankee "Wire-net."-The Fatal Ditch.-Longstreet's Masterly Retreat.-His Posi-

tion in Northeastern Tennessee.-He Winters, his Army there.--THE AFFAIR OF

SABINE PASS, TEXAS.--THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI.-Franklin's Expedition Defeated.--

The Upper Portions of the Trans-Mississippi.-The Missouri "Guerillas."--Quan-

trell.-Romantic Incidents.-THE VIRGINIA-TENNESSEE FRONTIER.-Operations of

General Sam Jones.-An Engagement near Warm Springs.-The Affair of Rogers-

ville.-BATTLE OF DROOP MOUNTAIN.-The Enemy Baffled.-Averill's Great Decem-

ber Raid. The Pursuit.--THE NORTH CAROLINA SWAMPS.--The Negro Banditti in the

Swamps.-Wild, Butler's "Jackal."--His Murder of Daniel Bright.-Confederate

Women in Irons.-Cowardice and Ferocity of the Yankees.....
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CHAPTER VIII.

The President's Declaration to the Confederate Congress of 1868-64.—"Want of

Capacity" in the Confederate Authorities.-Character of Jefferson Davis.-Official

Shiftlessness at Richmond.-Early Prognostications of the War.-The "Statesman-

ship" of the Confederates.-Ludicrous Errors of Confederate Leaders.-What "King

Cotton" might have done.-Gross Mismanagement of the Confederate Finances.-Mr.

Memminger's Maladministration.-The Moral Evils of an Expanded Currency.-The

Military Situation in December.-Secretary Seddon's Shameful Confession.-"De-

magogism" in the Confederate War Department.-Seddon's Propositions.-Military

"Substitutes."—An Act of Perfidy.-Bullying in Congress.-Spirit of the Confederate

Soldiery.-LINCOLN'S "PEACE PROCLAMATION."-Its Stupidity, Insolence, and Out-

rage. How the Confederates Replied to it.-A New Appeal Against "Recon-

struction."-THE SLAVERY QUESTION IN THE WAR.-A French Opinion.-The

Abolitionists Unmasked.-Decay of European Sympathy with Them.-Review of

Lincoln's "Emancipation" Policy.-The Arming of the Blacks.-The Negro Coloni-

zation Schemes.-Experiments of New England "Civilization" in Louisiana.

Frightful Mortality of "Freedmen."-The Appalling Statistics of Emancipation.-

The Contraband Camps in the Mississippi Valley.-Pictures of Yankee Philanthropy.

-"Slavery" Tested by the War.-The Confederates the True Friends of the African

Laborer. The System of Negro Servitude in the Confederacy.-The "War-to-the-

Knife" Party in the North.-HISTORY OF THE "RETALIATION" POLICY.-The Outrages

of Yankee Warfare.-President Davis's Sentimentalism.-The Record of his Unpar-

donable and Unparalleled Weakness.-A Peep into Yankee Prisons.-The Torture-

Houses of the North.-Captain Morgan's Experience Among "the Convict-Drivers."

-President Davis's Bluster.-His Two Faces.-Moral Effects of Submission to Yankee

Outrage. The Rival Administrations in December 1863.-Richmond and Washing-

ton. Mr. Lincoln's Gaiety.-New Issues for the Confederacy....... ... PAGE 174

CHAPTER IX.

The Importance of the Winter Campaigns of the War.-A Series of Remarkable

Events. Encouragement of the Confederacy. - ROSSER'S RAID. -- A Magnificent

Prize.-PICKETT'S EXPEDITION AGAINST NEWBERN.-The Fight on Bachelor's Creek.—

Destruction of the Yankee Gunboat "Underwriter."-The Brilliant Exploit of Com-

mander Wood.--Results of the Expedition.--THE AFfair of John's IslAND.--General

Wise's Fight.-THE BATTLE OF OCEAN POND.--History of the Yankee Expeditions into

Florida. Lincoln's Designs upon Florida.-Their Utter Defeat.--Political Jugglery

of Seymour's Expedition.-Price of "Three Electoral Votes."--SHERMAN'S EXPEDI-

TION IN THE SOUTHWEST.-What it Contemplated.--Grant's Extensive Designs.--The

Strategic Triangle.-Grant's Proposed Removal of the Mississippi River.—Polk's Re-

treat into Alabama.-Forrest's Heroic Enterprise.-His Defeat of Smith's and Grier-

son's Columns.--Sherman's Retreat to Vicksburg.-His Disgraceful Failure.-The

Yankee Campaign in the West Disconcerted.--The Lines in North Georgia.-Repulse

of the Yankees...
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CHAPTER X.

Auspicious Signs of the Spring of 1864.-Military Successes of the Confederates.-

Improvements in the Internal Polity of the Confederacy-Two Important Measures

of Legislation.-Revolution of our Finances.-Enlargement of the Conscription.-

Theory of the New Military Law.--A Blot on the Political Record of the Confeder-

acy.-Qualified Suspension of the Habeas Corpus.--An Infamous Edict, but a "Dead-

letter."-An Official Libel upon the Confederacy.-The Real Condition of Civil

Liberty in the South.-The Conscription not properly a Measure of Force.-Im-

pressments but a System of Patriotic Contribution.--Development of the Yankee

Government into Despotism.-An Explanation of this.-The Essence of Despotism

in One Yankee Statute.-MILITARY RESOURCES OF THE CONFEDERACY.-Its Military

System, the Best and Most Elastic in the World.-The War Conducted on A Volun-

tary Basis. Supplies.--Scarcity of Meat.-The Grain Product.-Two Centres of Sup-

plies.-A Dream of Yankee Hate.--Great Natural Resources of the North.-Summary

of the Yankee Military Drafts.-Tonnage of the Yankee Navy.-The Yankee War

Debt.--Economic Effects of the War.--Its Effects on European Industry.-Yankee

Conquest of the South an Impossibility.-A Remarkable Incident of the War.-

DAHLGREN'S RAID AROUND RICHMOND.-Kilpatrick's and Custar's Parts of the Expe-

dition. Dahlgren and his Negro Guide.-His "Braves" Whipped by the Richmond

Clerks and Artisans.--Death of the Marauder.-Revelation of his Infamous Designs.

-Copy and History of "the Dahlgren Papers."--A Characteristic Yankee Apothe-

osis. Ridiculous and Infamous Behavior of the Confederate Authorities.--A Bru-

tal and Savage Threat.-President Davis in Melodrama....
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CHAPTER XI.

The Current of Confederate Victories.-THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION.-Banks' Am-

bitious Designs.-Condition of the Confederates West of the Mississippi.-Banks'

Extensive Preparations.-A Gala Day at Vicksburg.-Yankee Capture of Fort De

Russy.--Occupation of Alexandria.-Porter's Warfare and Pillage.-Banks' Con-

tinued Advance.-Shreveport, the Grand Objective Point.-Kirby Smith's Designs.-

General Green's Cavalry Fight.-BATTLE OF MANSFIELD.-Success of the Confeder-

ates.-BATTLE OF PLEASANT HILL.-The Heroic and Devoted Charge of the Confeder-

ates.-The Scene on the Hill.-Banks Fatally Defeated.-Price's Capture of Yankee

Trains.-Grand Results of Kirby Smith's Campaign.-Banks in Disgrace.-Yankee

Tenure of Louisiana. -FORREST'S EXPEDITION INTO KENTUCKY.-His Gallant Assault

on Fort Pillow.-The Yankee Story of "Massacre."-Capture of Union City.-Con-

federate Occupation of Paducah.-Chastisement of the Yankees on their own Theatre