This comprehensive, engrossing volume examines the Civil War from all perspectives-the forces and events that caused it, the soldiers and civilians who fought it, and the ideas and values that are its legacy today.
New Foreword by Dr. Gary Gallagher with an Introduction by Richard S. Wheeler
List of Maps
Introduction
Foreword
1. The Historic Backgrounds of the Issues of Secession and Slavery
2. The Political Crises: From the Dred Scott Decision to Secession
3. The Fall of Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861
4. The Issues in Washington and Richmond in 1861
5. Robert E. Lee and the Offer of the United States Command
6. The First Battle of Bull Run, or Manassas
7. Mason and Slidell: Confederate Diplomacy Abroad
8. Du Pont's Squadron at Port Royal
9. The Battle for Missouri
10. The Capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
11. The Battle of Shiloh
12. The Monitor and the Merrimack
13. Capture of the Mississippi River Forts and New Orleans
14. George McClellan and the Army of the Potomac
15. General Pope and Second Bull Run (Manassas)
16. McClellan Halts Lee at Antietam
17. Jeb Stuart's Chambersburg Raid
18. The Road to Emancipation
19. Burnside and the Battle of Fredricksburg
20. Chancellorsville
21. The Vicksburg Campaign
22. The Gettysburg Campaign
23. Two Minutes to Immortality
24. The National Election of 1864
25. General Sherman's Campaign in Georgia
26. Battles in the West: Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge
27. The Great Locomotive Chase
28. The Raids of Morgan, Dahlgren, and Quantrill
29. Farragut Is Lashed to the Rigging at Mobile Bay
30. Battle of the Kearsarge and Alabama
31. Wilderness and Spotsylvania
32. From Spotsylvania to Cold Harbor
33. Early Threatens Washington
34. Fighting in the Shenandoah Valley
35. Thomas Versus Hood in Tennessee
36. Cushing Destroys the Albemarle
37. Negro Troops in the Union Army
38. Sherman's March to the Sea
39. Beauregard and Butler at Drewry's
40. Grant Moves South of the James
41. The Red River Expeditions of Banks and Porter
42. The Bombardment and Capture of Fort Fisher
43. The Long Road to Appomattox
44. Johnson's Surrender to Sherman
45. The Last Days of Abraham Lincoln
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