Battles and Leaders of the Civil War - 4 Volumes

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Battles and Leaders
Of the Civil War
Vol. 1, 2, 3 & 4
By The Century Co., 1884
770 + 776 + 772 + 819 pages, indexed, illustrated
BEING FOR THE MOST PART CONTRIBUTIONS
BY
UNION
AND CONFEDERATE OFFICERS.
BASED UPON "THE CENTURY WAR SERIES."
EDITED BY ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON
AND CLARENCE CLOUGH BUEL,OF THE EDI-
TORIAL STAFF OF "THE CENTURY MAGAZINE'.'
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First-hand accounts from both commanders and enlisted men of important leaders and major battles of the Civil War
These four volumes of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, published in the late nineteenth century, became the best-selling and most
frequently cited works ever published on the Civil War.
"
This compendium of battle studies and reports was written by commanders of all levels: Grant, Sherman, Lee and Longstreet down to lieutenants commanding
companies for points of clarification on minor skirmishes or segments of the battlefield.The accounts were set down when the war was still fresh in their
memories, yet when enough time had passed for reflection.
The fact that several viewpoints, some conflicting, are given for each major battle and campaign adds immeasurably to the value of this work.
.. you get
the immediacy and vigor of the post-war controversies and the finger-pointing --- the first early exposition of the rift between Longstreet and the Jubal Early
faction for example.
If you have any interest in the Civil War, and lack the time to sift through the voluminous post-war memoirs of the commanders, you'll want to keep
Battles and Leaders handy."
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE
Preface Page X
Preliminary Events 1
Organization of the Two Governments 4
Washington on the Eve of the War 8
With Slemmer in Pensacola Harbor 26
Recollections of the Twiggs Surrender 33
From Moultrie to Sumter 40
Inside Sumter in '61 49
The First Step in the War 74
Notes on the Surrender of Fort Sumter 86
War Preparations in the North 84
The Confederate Government at Montgomery 98
Jackson at Harper's Ferry in 1861 110
McClellan in West Virginia 124
Going to the Front 147
Virginia Scenes in '61 156
McDowell's Advance to Bull Run 166
The First Battle of the Bull Run 195
Responsibilities of the First Bull Run 245
General Ewell at Bull Run 259
The Confederate Commissariat at Manassas 261
The First Year of the War in Missouri 262
In Command in Missouri 278
Wilson's Creek, and the Death of Lyon 289
Arkansas Troops in the Battle of Wilson's Creek 298
The Flanking Column at Wilson's Creek 304
The Siege of Lexington 307
The Pea Ridge Campaign 314
Union and Confederate Indians in the Civil War 335
Recollections of Foote and the Gun-Boats 339
Notes on the Life of Admiral Foote 347
General Polk and the Battle of Belmont 348
The Gun-Boats at Belmont and Fort Henry 358
The Defense of Fort Henry 368
Holding Kentucky for the Union 373
Marshall and Garfield in Eastern Kentucky 393
The Capture of Fort Donelson 398
The Opposing Forces at Fort Donelson 429
The Western Flotilla 430
Ellet and His Steam-Rams at Memphis 453
Sawing Out the Channel Above Island Number Ten 460
The Battle of Shiloh 465
Shiloh Reviewed 487
Albert Sidney Johnson at Shiloh 540
The Campaign of Shiloh 569
Notes of Confederate Staff-Officers at Shiloh 594
Surprise and Withdrawal at Shiloh 604
The March of Lew Wallace's Division to Shiloh 607
The Union and Confederate Navies 611
Early Coast Operations in North Carolina 632
The Burnside Expedition 660
Du Pont and the Port Royal Expedition 670
The First Fight of Iron-Clads 692
Watching the Merrimac 712
The Plan and Construction of the Merrimac 715
Notes on The Monitor/Merrimac Fight 718
In the "Monitor" Turret 719
The Building of the "Monitor" 730
The Loss of the Monitor 745
Negotiations for the Building of the Monitor 748
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME TWO
Siege and Capture of Fort Pulaski 1
New Orleans Before the Capture 14
The Opening of the Lower Mississippi 22
The "Brooklyn" at the Passage of the Forts 56
Farragut's Capture of New Orleans 70
Fighting Farragut Below New Orleans 76
The Ram "Manassas" at the Passage of the New Orleans Forts 89
Incidents of the Occupation of New Orleans 91
Farragut's Demands for the Surrender of New Orleans 95
The Water-Battery at Fort Jackson 99
Confederate Responsibilities for Farragut's Success 101
The Confederate Invasion of New Mexico and Arizona 103
McClellan Organizing the Grand Army 112
Ball's Bluff and the Arrest of General Stone 123
Captain Wilkes's Seizure of Mason and Slidell 135
Early Operations on the Potomac River 143
Operations of 1861 About Fort Monroe 144
Campaigning to No Purpose 153
The Peninsular Campaign 160
Yorktown and Williamsburg 189
Manassas to Seven Pines 202
Two Days of Battle at Seven Pines (Fair Oaks) 220
The Navy in the Peninsular Campaign 264
Stuart's Ride Around McClellan 271
Anecdotes of the Peninsular Campaign 275
West Virginia Operations Under Fremont 278
Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah 282
The Opposing Forces in the Valley Campaigns 299
Fighting Jackson at Kernstown 302
The Opposing Forces in the Seven Days' Battles 313
Hanover Court House and Gaines's Mill 319
The Charge of Cooke's Cavalry at Gainse's Mill 344
Reflections of a Participant in the Charge 346
Lee's Attack North of the Chickahominy 347
Of the Confederate Right at Gainse's Mill 363
Rear-Guard Fighting During the Change of Base 366
McClellan's Change of Base and Malvern Hill 383
"The Seven Days" Including Fraiser's Farm 396
The Battle of Malvern Hill 406
With the Cavalry on the Peninsula 429
The Rear-Guard at Malvern Hill 434
The Administration in the Peninsula Campaign 435
Richmond Scene's in '62 439
The Second Battle of Bull Run 449
In vindication of General Rufus King 495
The Opposing Force at Cedar Mountain, VA 496
Jackson's Raid Around Pope 501
Our March Against Pope 512
The Time of Longstreet's Arrival at Groveton 527
Marching on Manassas 529
Jackson's Foot-Cavalry at the Second Bull Run 530
The Sixth Corps at the Second Bull Run 539
Washington Under Banks 542
From the Peninsula to Antietam 545
In the Ranks to the Antietam 556
The Battle of South Mountain, or Boonsboro 559
Forcing Fox's Gap and Turner's Gap 582
Notes on Crampton's Gap and Antietam 591
The Opposing Forces in The Maryland Campaign 598
The Finding of Lee's Lost Order 603
Jackson's Capture of Harper's Ferry 604
The Surrender of Harper's Ferry 612
Stonewall Jackson's Intentions at Harper's Ferry 616
The Historical Basis of Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie" 619
Stonewall Jackson in Maryland 620
The Battle of Antietam 630
With Burnside at Antietam 661
The Invasion of Maryland 663
Sharpsburg 675
Antietam Scenes 682
A Woman's Recollection of Antietam 686
The Case of Fitz John Porter 696
Canby's Services in the New Mexican Campaign 697
Canby at Valverde 699
Shelby's New Mexican Campaign 700
Operations in North Alabama 701
The Locomotive Chase in Georgia 709
Notes on the Locomotive Chase 716
With Price East of the Mississippi 717
The Battle of Iuka 734
The Battle of Corinth 737
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME THREE
Retreat From Gettysburg
Bragg's Invasion of Kentucky 1
Morgan's Cavalry During Bragg's Invasion 26
The Opposing Forces at Perryville, KY 29
East Tennessee and the Campaign of Perryville East Tennessee and the Campaign of Perryville 31
On the Field of Perryville 52
Notes of a Staff-Officer at Perryville 60
Cumberland Gap 62
The Battle of Fredericksburg 70
The Confederate Left at Fredericksburg 86
Ransom's Division at Fredericksburg 94
A Hot Day in Marye's Heights 97
The Removal of McClellan 102
Sumner's Right Grand Division 105
The Crossing of the Rappahannock by the 19th Massachusetts 121
In Front of the Stonewall at Fredericksburg 122
Why Burnside Did Not Renew the Attack at Fredericksburg 126
Franklin's "Left Grand Division" 128
With Jackson at Hamilton's Crossing 139
In the Ranks at Fredericksburg 142
A Bit of Partisan Service 148
Stoneman's Raid in the Chancellorsville Campaign 152
The Chancellorsville Campaign 154
The Success and Failure of Chancellorsville 172
When Stonewall Jackson Turned Our Right 183
The Charge of the Eight Pennsylvania Cavalry 187
The Eleventh Corps at Chancellorsville 189
Stonewall Jackson's Last Battle 203
Hooker's Comments on Chancellorsville 215
Sedwick at Fredericksburg and Salem Heights 224
Lee's Knowledge of Hooker's Movements 233
The Opposing Forces in the Chancellorsville Campaign 234
Hooker's Appointment and Removal 239
Lee's Invasion of Pennsylvania 244
The Confederate Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign 251
The First Day at Gettysburg 255
Incidents of the First Day at Gettysburg 284
Hancock and Howard in the First Days Fight 287
Citizens of Gettysburg in the Union Army 289
The Second Day at Gettysburg 290
The Council of War on the Second Day 313
The 20th Maine at Little Round Top 314
The 146th New York at Little Round Top 315
The Breastworks at Culp's Hill 316
The Struggle for Round Top 319
Kershaw's Brigade at Gettysburg 331
Lee's Right Wing at Gettysburg 339
The Charge of Pickett, Pettigrew, and Trimble 354
A Reply to General Longstreet 355
The Great Charge and Artillery Fighting at Gettysburg 357
The Third Day at Gettysburg 369
General Hancock and the Artillery at Gettysburg 385
Repelling Lee's Last Blows at Gettysburg 387
Farnsworth Charge and Death 393
The Cavalry Battle Near Gettysburg 397
Meade at Gettysburg 406
The Confederate Retreat From Gettysburg 420
A Prisoner's March From Gettysburg to Staunton 429
The Opposing Forces at Gettysburg 434
The Conquest of Arkansas 441
The Opposing Forces in Arkansas 459
The Assault on Chickasaw Bluffs 462
Jefferson Davis and the Mississippi Campaign 472
The Defense of Vicksburg 482
The Vicksburg Campaign 493
The Vicksburg Mine 539
The Terms of Surrender 543
The Opposing Forces in the Vicksburg Campaign 546
Naval Operations in the Vicksburg Campaign 551
Gulf Operations in 1862 and 1863 571
The Confederate Gun-Boat "Arkansas" 572
The Confederate Torpedoes in the Yazoo 580
Union Vessels in the Vicksburg Operations 581
Military Operations in Louisiana in 1862 582
The Opposing Forces at Baton Rouge, LA 585
The Capture of Port Hudson 586
The Opposing Forces at Port Hudson 598
Bragg's Advance and Retreat 600
The Opposing Forces at Stones River, TN 610
The Battle of Stone's River 613
The Union Left at Stone's River 632
Morgan's Ohio Raid 634
Manoeuvering Bragg out of Tennessee 635
Chickamauga - The Great Battle of the West 638
The Crisis at Chickamauga 663
Reenforcing Thomas at Chickamauga 665
Notes on the Chickamauga Campaign 668
The Opposing Forces at Chickamauga 672
The Little Steamboat the Opened the "Cracker Line" 676
Chattanooga 679
Sherman's Attack at the Tunnel 712
Comments on General Grant's Chattanooga 714
The Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga 719
Opposing Forces in the Chattanooga Campaign 727
The Defense of Knoxville 731
Longstreet at Knoxville 745
The Opposing Forces at Knoxville 751
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOUR
The Defense of Charleston 1
The Confederate Defense of Fort Sumter 23
Minor Operations of the South Atlantic Squadron Under Du Pont 27
The Early Monitors 30
Du Pont's Attack at Charleston 32
The Boat Attack on Sumter 47
South Atlantic Blocking Squadron 51
The Army Before Charleston in 1863 52
The "Swamp Angel" 72
The Opposing Land Forces at Charleston 74
The Battle of Olustee 76
From Gettysburg to the Coming of Grant 81
Kilpatrick's and Dahlgren's Raid to Richmond 95
Preparing for the Campaign's of '64 97
From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor 118
General Grant on the Wilderness Campaign 145
Through the Wilderness 152
Hand-to-Hand Fighting at Spotsylvania 170
The Death of General John Sedgwick 175
McAllister's Brigade at the Bloody Angle 176
General Edward's Brigade at the Bloody Angle 177
The Opposing Forces at the Beginning of Grant's Campaign Against Richmond 179
The Opposing Forces at Cold Harbor 186
Sheridan's Richmond Raid 188
The Death of General J. E. B. Stuart 194
The Defense of Drewry's Bluff 195
Butler's Attack on Drewry's Bluff 206
The Eighteenth Corps at Cold Harbor 221
Notes on Cold Harbor 230
Sheridan's Trevillian Raid 223
The Cavalry Fight at Trevillian Station 237
General Lee in the Wilderness Campaign 240
THe Grand Strategy of the Last Year of the War 247
Opposing Sherman's Advance to Atlanta 260
The Opposing Forces in the Atlanta Campaign 284
The Struggle for Atlanta 293
Hood's Second Sortie at Atlanta 326
The Georgia Militia About Atlanta 331
The Defense of Atlanta 336
The Red River Campaign 345
The Navy in the Red River 362
The Mississippi Flotilla in the Red River Expedition 366
The Opposing Forces in the Red River Campaign 367
The Opposing Forces in Arkansas 368
The Defense of the Red River 369
Farragut at Mobile Bay 379
The Opposing Forces at Mobile 400
The Ram "Tennessee" at Mobile Bay 401
The Lashing of Admiral Farragut in the Rigging 406
The Defense of Fort Morgan 408
Land Operations Against Mobile 410
Closing Operations in the Gulf and Western Rivers 412
Cavalry Operations in the West Under Rosecrans and Sherman 413
The Sooy Smith Expedition 416
Forrest's Defeat of Sturgis at Brice's Cross-Roads 419
John Morgan in 1864 422
The Invasion of Tennessee 425
General Cheatham at Spring Hill 438
Repelling Hood's Invasion of Tennessee 440
The Union Cavalry in the Hood Campaign 465
The Opposing Forces at Nashville 472
Operations in East Tennessee and South-West Virginia 475
The Battle of New Market 480
Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 487
The Opposing Forces at New Market 491
The Opposing Forces in the Lynchburg Expedition 492
Early's March to Washington in 1864 493
The Opposing Forces at the Monocacy 499
Sheridan in the Shenadoah Valley 500
Winchester, Fisher Hill, and Cedar Creek 522
The Opposing Forces at Cedar Creek 530
Operations South of the James River 533
Four Days of Battle at Petersburg 540
The Battle of The Petersburg Crater 545
In the Crater 561
The Colored Troops at Petersburg 563
Actions on the Weldon Railroad 568
General Grant on the Siege of Petersburg 574
Gordon's Attack at Fort Stedman 579
The Recapture of Fort Stedman 584
The Opposing Forces at Petersburg and Richmond 590
The Confederate Cruisers 595
Cruise and Combats of the "Alabama" 600
The Duel Between the "Alabama" and the "Kearsarge" 615
First Battle of the Confederate Ram "Albemarle" 625
The "Albemarle and the "Sassscus" 628
The Destruction of the "Albemarle" 634
The Defense of Fort Fisher 642
The Defense at Fort Fisher 655
The Opposing Forces at Fort Fisher 661
Sherman's Advance from Atlanta 663
The Georgia Militia During Sherman's March to the Sea 667
Marching Through Georgia and the Carolinas 671
The Failure to Capture Hardee 679
Sherman's March From Savannah to Bentonville 681
The Opposing Forces in the Campaign of the Carolinas 696
The Battle of Bentonville 700
Closing Operations in the James River 705
Five Forks and the Pursuit of Lee 708
General Warren at Five Forks, and the Court of Inquiry 723
Lee's Report of the Surrender at Appomattox 724
The Fall of Richmond 725
The Surrender at Appomattox Court House 729
General Lee's Farewell Address to His Army 747
The Opposing Forces in the Appomattox Campaign 748
Final Operations of Sheridan's Army 754
Wilson's Raid Through Alabama and Georgia 760
Last Days of the Confederacy 762
Notes on the Union and Confederate Armies 767
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