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Foreign Mission of the Confederates.-Mr. Seward's Letter of Instructions.-Earl Russell and the

Confederates.-France Recognizes de facto Governments.-Foreign Recognition of the Bellig-

erent Rights of the South.-Mr. Seward's Reply. Spain. -Mexico.-Monroe Doctrine.-The

Trent Affair.......

Age of Invention.-Change in Arms.-Springfield Rifle.-Enfield Rifle.-Repeating Arms.-The

Rodman Gun.-Columbiads.-Parrott Gun.-Dahlgrens.-Table of Guns in Service.-Projec

tiles.-Batteries......

The Situation.-Army of the Potomac.-General McClellan.-The Retreat of the Enemy from

Manassas.-The Peninsular Campaign.-Yorktown.-McDowell's Corps Withdrawn.-Siege of

Iron-plated Ships.-Merrimac.-Federal Fleet.-Hampton Roads-Destruction of the Cumberland

and Congress.-Monitor.-Iron-clad Duel.-Repulse of the Merrimac........

Evacuation of Yorktown.-Retreat of the Enemy.-Pursuit.-Battle of Williamsburg.-West

Point.-Advance of McClellan.-Fort Darling.-Repulse of the Gunboats..

Taking of Norfolk.-Chickahominy.-Position of Enemy.-Hanover Court-House.-Battle of Fair

Oaks.-Advance of the Reserves.-Retreat of the Enemy....

General Jackson's Movement.-Battle at Winchester.-Advance o. Banks.-Shields ordered to

join McDowell.-Retreat of Banks.-Front Royal.-Banks driven across the Potomac.-Moun-

tain Department.-Fremont_supersedes Rosecrans.-Battle at McDowell-Fremont's Corps

ordered to support Banks-The Object of Jackson's Raid.-Fremont's Movement.-Retreat of

the Enemy.-Harrisonburg.-Cross Keys-Escape of Jackson-McDowell concentrates at

Fredericksburg.-Formation of the Army of Virginia under Pope................

Continued Operations against Richmond.-Combat of June 25th.-McClellan's Dispatch.-Me-

chanicsville.-Gaines's Mills.-Change of Base to the James River.-White Oak Swamp.-Mal-

vern Hill-McClellan Addresses the Troops.-Jefferson Davis's Address.-Close of Campaign.

-Causes of Failure....

Department of Missouri.-General Halleck.-Negotiations with Price.-Van Dorn, Curtis, and

Bigel.-Pea Ridge....

Island No. Ten.-Beauregard at Corinth.-Battle of Pittsburg Landing.-Huntsville.-Fort Wright. 802

Halleck at Pittsburg Landing.-Fall of Corinth.-Pursuit.-Memphis Occupied.-General Grant.—

End of Campaign.-Halleck at Washington....

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Operations of the Army of Virginia under General Pope.-New Policy of Conducting the War.-

Cedar Mountain.-Line of the Rappahannock.-Flanking Movement of Stonewall Jackson.-

Second Battle of Bull Run.-Chantilly.-Death of Kearny.-Evacuation of the Peninsula...... 819

The Expedition of Burnside.-Capture of Newbern.-Beaufort Captured.-Operations on the

Southern Coast,-Siege of Fort Pulaski.-James Island....

Financial Situation.-Legal Tender.-Interest in Coin.-Duties in Specie.-Gold Notes at a Pre-

mium.-Deposits.-Ways and Means.-Debt.-Excise Loan.-Income Tax.-Paper Circulation.

-Effect of Paper Money.-Rise in Price.-Premium on Gold.-Commerce.-Government Ex-

penses.-Growth of Debt.-Immense Means.......

Thirty-Seventh Congress.-Foreign Relations-Public Anxiety-Surrender of Commissioners.-

War Conduct.-Executive Action.-President's Message.-Co-operation.-Hunter's Order.-

Border State Delegation.-Kentucky Legislature.-President's Letter.-His Position. --West-

ern Delegation.-Emancipation Action of Congress.-No more Slave Territory.-District of

Columbia.-Co-operation Resolution.-Military not to Surrender Fugitives.-Troops Author-

ized.-Conscription.-Work of the Thirty-Seventh Congress...

Expedition of General Butler.-New Orleans.-Its Defences.-Passage of the Forts by Farragut.-

Capture of City.-Butler's Administration.—Baton Rouge.-Vicksburg.-Ram Arkansas.-Her

Destruction....

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CHAPTER XXXIII.

Privateers.-Confederate Navy.-Oreto: Her Operations.-The Alabama: Her Movements.-Dip-

lomatic Correspondence.-Captures.-Hatteras Captured.......

General Pope's Army.-Its Condition.-McClellan's Army.-Enemy Cross the Potomac.-McClel-

lan in Command-Halleck refuses Troops-South Mountain.-Harper's Ferry.-Antietam.-

Hooker. Sumner.-Burnside.-Retreat of the Enemy.-Advance of the Army.-McClellan

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Burnside in Command.-Change of Plan.-Pontoons Delayed.-Plans of Crossing.-Two Attacks.

-Franklin's Movements.-Seizure of Fredericksburg.-Sumner.-Terrible Slaughter.-Repulse

on the Right.-Inaction.-Withdrawal of the Army.-End of Campaign.-Intrigues.-Order No.

S-Burnside Relieved..

Situation in Kentucky.-Bragg's Invasion.--Mumfordsville.—Buell's Advance.-Perrysville.-Re-

treat of the Enemy.-Features of Campaign.....

CHAPTER XXXVII.

Cumberland Gap.-Morgan's Escape.-Iuka-Price Retreats-Corinth.-Repulse of the Enemy.

-Vicksburg Expedition-Reorganization of the Obio Army by Rosecrans.-His Advance.-

Battle of Stone River.-Defeat of the Enemy.....

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

Turn of the Tide of War.-New Combinations.-Vicksburg.-Sherman's Attack.-Arkansas Post.

-Renewal of Attempt upon Vicksburg.—Passage of Batteries by the Fleet.-Flanking March

The Flank Movement against Vicksburg.-Battles of Raymond. Jackson, and Champion Hills.-

Investment of the City.-Obstinate Defence.-Surrender.-Chronology of Events.-Grierson's

Expediton of General Banks-Investment of Port Hudson.-Unsuccessful Assaults.—Brashear

City-Capitulation of Port Hudson.-Chronology of Events......

New Movement against Richmond.-Lee's Flank Turned.-Battle of Chancellorsville.-Retreat of

Hooker-Operations by Sedgwick.

Second Invasion of Maryland.-Defeat of Milroy at Winchester.-Meade appointed to command

the Army of the Potomac.-Battle of Gettysburg.-Retreat of Lee......

Lee's Retreat from Gettysburg.-Peace Mission.-Conscription.-Meade Re-enforced.-Draft.—

Riots.-Lei crosses the Rapidan.-His Advance and Subsequent Retreat..

Meade's Advance across the Rapidan.-Recrosses.-Winter-Quarters.-Draft for Three Hundred

Thousand Ien.-Reconnoissance.-Kilpatrick's Raid upon Richmond.-Death of Dahlgren.... 470

Creation of the Office of Lieutenant-General.-General Grant Appointed.-Army Reorganization.

-Draft fo Two Hundred Thousand Men.-General Grant assumes Command in Chief.-

Powers of the Lieutenant-General.-Country between Washington and Richmond.-Rule of

Advance.-Rebel Position...........

The Army in Tennessee.-Results of Murfreesboro'.-Operations in Tennessee.-Minor Expedi-

tions-Adance of Rosecrans-Retreat of Bragg.-Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee.-

Occupationof Knoxville.-Evacuation of Chattanooga.-Concentration of the Enemy.-Battle

of Chickamuga-The Two Generals.-Results of the Battle....

Insetion of Brag.-His Position.-His Indecision.-Rosecrans Recruiting.-Storms.-Hooker Ar-

rives.-Grant Ordered up.-He Supersedes Rosecrans.-Thomas in Command of Department.

-Position of he Army-Movement to open River.-Defeat of the Enemy.-Sherman's March.

-Combat.-Cange of Route.-Burnside's Position.-Longstreet Detached from Bragg.-Siege

of Knoxville. Burnside Hard Pressed.-Bragg Weakened.-Grant Attacks.-The Movement

Successful.-Sierman Relieves Burnside.-Retreat of Longstreet....

CHAPTER XLVIIL

Operations against Charleston-Arrival of Monitors.-Montauk.-Attack by the Enemy.-Iron-

Clad Attack on Smter.-Capture of the Atlanta-General Gillmore in Command.-Assault on

Fort Wagner.-Bmbardment of Fort Sumter.-Siege and Reduction of Fort Wagner.-Occupa

tion of Morris Isind....

Advance on Richmond.-Crossing of the Rapidan.-Routes of Corps.-The Enemy Attempts a

Flanking Movement.-Meade's Attack.-Repulse of Griffin.-Hancock Arrives.-Concentration

of the Army-Burnside ordered Forward.-New Dispositions.--Advance of Hancock on the

6th.-Arrival of Longstreet.-Fall of Wadsworth.-Longstreet Wounded.-Attack on the Union

Right-Results of the Two Days' Fighting......

Movement upon Spottsylvania.-The Enemy on the Alert.-Attack of May 10th.-Death of Sedg

wick.-Position of the Troops.-Grant "to Fight it out on that_Line."-Assault by the Second

Corps on May 12th.-Large Captures of Prisoners and Guns.-Results of the Struggle.-Sheri-

dan's Cavalry Raid.-Death of General Stuart-Battle at Meadow Bridge.--Sheridan at the

Retrograde Movement of the Enemy.-Bad Condition of the Roads-Union Movement to the

Left-Relative Position of Armies.-Re-enforcements.-Irruption on the Rear Repused.-

Grant Crossing the North Anna-Impregnable Position of the Enemy.-North Ana Re-

crossed, and Movement to the Left continued...

Original Plan of Campaign.-Butler's Expedition up the James.-Movement on Petersburg.-Fort

Darling.-Repulse of the Union Forces.-Attack by Beauregard.-Beauregard Re-enforces Lee.

-Smith sent to Support Grant..

Position of Grant's Army.-Warren's Advance.-Further Development of the Union Let Wing.-

Severe Battles around Cold Harbor.-New Flank Movement determined upon.-Crosing of the

James and Junction with Butler.-Results of that Campaign.......

Advance on Petersburg.-Position of the City.-Assault and Capture of Earthworks aid Guns.-

Assault of Saturday, June 18th.-Repulse.-Aspect of the Campaign.....

Relative Strength of Armies.-Grant Moves against the Railroad Connections of Richmond.—

Combat of June 21st.-Repulsed the 23d.-Sheridan's Expedition.-Movement of Wilson and

Kautz on the Danville Road.-Five Hundred Thousand Men called out.-Explosion of the Mine

in Front of Petersburg.-Failure of the Assault.

Sigel's Movement in the Valley.-Hunter Supersedes Sigel, and Defeats the Rebels nar Staun-

ton.--Occupation of Lexington.-Lynchburg.-Early sent to the Valley.-Retreat of Hunter

through Western Virginia-Advance of Early down the Valley and Invasion of Maryland.-

Defeat of Wallace.-Washington Threatened.-Arrival of Sixth Corps and Retreatof Early.-

Varions Encounters in the Valley.-Hunter Superseded by Sheridan........

Dutch Gap Canal.-Movement North of the James.--Expedition of the Fifth Corps to the Weldon

Road. Attack by Hill.-Severe Fighting near Reams's Station.-Losses.-Repule of the Ene-

my.-Subsequent Repulse of Hancock.-Renewal of Movement North of the Janes and Cap-

ture of Fort Harrison.-Further Operations on the Weldon Railroad.

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CHAPTER LVIII.

Operations in Tennessee.-Sherman's Raid Through Mississippi.-Failure of Smiti's Co-operative

Movement.-Invasion of Western Tennessee and Kentucky by Forrest.-Mass.cre at Fort Pil-

Co-operative Movement on Atlanta-Size and Organization of the Union and Rebel Armies.-

Commencement of the Campaign by Sherman.-Evacuation of Dalton by Johnston.-Battle of

Resaca and Retreat of the Rebels-Operations at Dallas and Kenesaw.-Rebels Flanked and

Driven Across the Chattahoochee.....

The New Position of the Enemy. Johnston again Turned and Pushed Back upon Atlanta.-Ros-

seau's Raid.-Hood Succeeds Johnston.-Investment of Atlanta.-Battles of July 20th and 22d.

-Death of McPherson.-Cavalry Raids of Stoneman and McCook.-Defeat and Capture of

Stoneman.-Battle of July 28th.-Prolongation of the Union Right Wing.-Changes of Com-

manders in Sherman's Army..

Siege of Atlanta.-Position of the City.-Topography.-The Enemy's Strength.-Sherman Moves

to the Right-Wheeler's Raid.-Kilpatrick's Raid.-Grand Flank Movement of the Army on

the Macon Railroad.-Defeat of the Enemy at Jonesboro'.-Evacuation of Atlanta-Congratula-

tory Order of General Sherman.-Truce.-Depopulation of Atlanta-Correspondence between

Sherman and Hood.-Results of the Campaign......

The Gulf Department-Sabine Pass Expedition.-McPherson Moves from Vicksburg.-Expedi-

tion to the Rio Grande and Occupation of Brownsville.-Banks's Red River Expedition.-Cap-

ture of Fort De Russey.-Occupation of Alexandria.-Battle of Mansfield.-Retreat of the Army.

-Repulse of the Enemy at Pleasant Hill.-Operations of the Fleet.-The Dam at Alexandria.--

Arrival of the Army and Fleet in the Mississippi.--Co-operative Movement of Steele in Ar-

kansas-Causes of its Failure....

War in Missouri.-Execution of Guerrillas.-Marmaduke's Movements.-Helena.-Successful Cam-

paign of General Steele in Arkansas-Capture of Little Rock.-General Gantt.-Sacking of

Lawrence by Quantrell.-Price's Last Invasion of Missouri.-His Disastrous Defeat and Retreat

into Arkansas...

Mobile-Its Defences.-Concentration of Troops.-Combined Operations.-Landing on Dauphine

Island.--Order of Battle.-Tecumseh Blown up.-Tennessee Attacks.-Desperate Battle.-

Mode of Attack.-Fort Powell Blown up.-Fort Gaines Surrenders.-Siege of Fort Morgan.—

Surrender.--Minor Expeditions...

Expedition to Florida-Occupation of Jacksonville.-Advance of General Seymour.-Battle of

Olustee, and Retreat of the Union Army.-Demonstration against Newbern.-Capture of Ply-

mouth.-The Albemarle.-Her Fight with Union Gunboats.-Her Destruction.-Rebel Priva-

teers.-Combat between the Kearsarge and Alabama.-Capture of the Florida and Georgia..... 615

CHAPTER LXVL

Depopulation of Atlanta-Correspondence between General Sherman and Mayor Calhoun.-Flank

Movement by Hood.-Attack on_Allatoona-Hood Severs Sherman's Communications.—

Marches into Alabama and Enters Tennessee.-Sherman's New Plan of Campaign.-Invasion of

Tennessee.-Battle of Franklin.-Affair at Murfreesboro'.-Battles of December 15th and 16th

before Nashville.-Retreat of Hood into Alabama.—Close of the Campaign.......

CHAPTER LXVIL

Sheridan in Command of the Middle Military Division.-Manoeuvring in the Valley.-Object of

the Movements.-Battles of Opequan Creek and Fisher's Hill.-Rout and Retreat of the Rebels.

-Their New Position at Brown's Gap.-Movements of Sheridan.........

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