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Title: The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 2 (of 2)

Author: George Cary Eggleston

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THE HISTORY OF THE
CONFEDERATE
WAR

THE HISTORY OF THE
CONFEDERATE
WAR

ITS CAUSES AND ITS CONDUCT

A NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY

BY
GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON

Volume II

 

 

New York
STURGIS & WALTON
COMPANY
1910
All rights reserved

Copyright, 1910
By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1910

CONTENTS

CHAPTER   PAGE
  Part II.—The Conduct of the War Continued
XXXI. The Struggle for Emancipation 3
XXXII. Burnside's Fredericksburg Campaign 19
XXXIII. Halleck's Treatment of Grant 31
XXXIV. Grant at Corinth 38
XXXV. Bragg's Campaign against Louisville 53
XXXVI. Fall and Winter Campaigns at the West and South 72
XXXVII. The Chancellorsville Campaign 83
XXXVIII. The Gettysburg Campaign 122
XXXIX. The Campaign of Vicksburg 151
XL. The State of Things After Gettysburg 171
XLI. The Struggle for Charleston 181
XLII. The Campaigns of Chickamauga and Chattanooga 196
XLIII. Grant's Strategy—The Red River Campaign—Fort Pillow, Etc. 207
XLIV. Grant's Plan of Campaign 221
XLV. The Battles in the Wilderness 228
XLVI. Spottsylvania and the Bloody Angle 237
XLVII. Cold Harbor and on to Petersburg 249
XLVIII. The Confederate Cruisers 261
XLIX. Sherman's Campaign against Atlanta 265
L. The Bay Fight at Mobile 278
LI. The Mine Explosion at Petersburg 284
LII. Early's Invasion of Pennsylvania 294
LIII. Operations at Petersburg and Sheridan's Valley Campaign 299
LIV. The Presidential Campaign of 1864 308
LV. Sherman at Atlanta 315
LVI. Sherman's "March to the Sea" 330
LVII. Hood's Campaign 337
LVIII. Preparations for the Decisive Blow 340
LIX. The End 347
  Index 357

VOLUME II
THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR
(continued)