ILLUSTRATED BY MANY HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD, BY LOSSING AND In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. a T PREFACE. HIS volume completes the Chronicle of the Civil War. It compris a record of the events of the pict from midsomer of 1863, until the close of the struggle, in the field, in the spring of 1865. The second volume was ended with the erd of the capture of Vicksburg and Port Hads National armies, in July. This volume opens with an account of the movements of the Army of the Potomac in the winter and spring of 1863, which led to the Battle of Chancellorsville, and Lee's second invasion of Maryland that ended with the Battle of Gettysburg. It contains the story of the military and naval operations in the region of the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico, and all along the Atlantic coast, from Florida to the lower borders of Virginia, including the long sieg Charleston. Also, an account of the doings of the AngloConfederate pirate-ships, including those of the Alabama, and an count of her destruction. It also contains a record of the im ent movements in Eastern and Southeastern Tennesseewhic. vore followed by Sherman's great march and series of con, lictsm Chattanooga, by way of Atlanta, to the sea, and thence throug, the Carolinas; and the expulsion of the Confederates from anessee, by Thomas. It bears a record of the stirring events in the Red River region; in Texas; all along the Mississippi, and in the States whose borders are washed by its waters; at Mobile, and in the. interior of the States of Mississippi and Alabama, and the final triumph of the National arms in all the vast region of the Republic southward of the Roanoke River and westward of the mountain ranges of Virginia, Tennessee, and North and South Carolina. It contains a history of the great campaigns of the armies of the Potomac and the James, which ended in the capture of Rich |