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,

WITII TIIE

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 NEN: VIEWS OF
PLACES OF HISTORIC INTEREST : MAPS, DIAGRAMS OP BATTLE-FIELDS, NAVAL

ACTIONS, ETC.: FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES.

VOL. II.

HARTFORD:
PUBLISHED BY O. D. CASE & COMPANY.

1866.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866,

By 0. D. CASE & COMPANY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the

District of Connecticut.

Electrotyped and Printed by

C. A. ALVORD,
15 Tandewater Street, New York.

Theos feculez

TO

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;