PRESENT AND

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,

WITH THE

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 MEN: VIEWS OF
PLACES OF HISTORIC INTEREST. MAPS, DIAGRAMS OF BATTLE-FIELDS, NAVAL
ACTIONS, ETC.: FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES.

VOL. I.

HARTFORD:

PUBLISHED BY O. D. CASE AND COMPANY.
LONDON: STEVENS BROTHERS.

17 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W. C.

1867.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864,

BY O. D. CASE & COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
District of Connecticut.

ΤΟ

JOHN BRIGHT,

BRITISH COMMONER AND CHRISTIAN STATESMAN:

THE FRIEND OF MY COUNTRY, BECAUSE THE FRIEND OF MANKIND.

This Record of a Nation's Struggle

UP

FROM DARKNESS AND BONDAGE TO LIGHT AND LIBERTY.

IS REGARDFULLY, GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED

BY

THE AUTHOR.