HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

Copyright, 1886 and 1890,

by JOHN G. NICOLAY

and JOHN HAY.

ILLUSTRATIONS

VOL. V

ABRAHAM LINCOLN..

.Frontispiece

From a photograph bearing an inscription by Mr. Lincoln
to Mrs. Lucy G. Speed, dated Washington, D. C., October 3,
1861.

GENERAL ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON, AT THE AGE OF 57.... 336

HAMPTON ROADS AND THE BATTLE OF THE "MONITOR" AND

MILITARY AND NAVAL OPERATIONS ABOUT ISLAND No. 10.. 304

BATTLE OF SHILOH ..

320

THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN

368

POSITIONS PRELIMINARY TO THE BATTLE OF SEVEN PINES... 384

JACKSON'S CAMPAIGN IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY.

400

REGION OF THE SEVEN DAYS' FIGHTING-PART I

432

REGION OF THE SEVEN DAYS' FIGHTING-PART II ..

448

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOL. V

CHAPTER I. HATTERAS AND PORT ROYAL

The Blockade. Serviceable Ships. Assistant Secretary

Fox. An Improvised Navy. New Gunboats and Iron-

clads. The Question of Closing Insurrectionary Ports.

The Privateer Sumter. The Savannah Privateersmen.

The Hatteras Expedition. Capture of the Forts. A

Naval Expedition Prepared. The Fleet Sails for Port

Royal. Capture of Forts Walker and Beauregard . . 1

CHAPTER II. THE "TRENT" AFFAIR

Confederate Envoys to Europe. Captain Charles

Wilkes. The British Mail Steamer Trent Overhauled.

Mason and Slidell Removed. The Trent Allowed to

Proceed. The Prisoners Conveyed to Fort Warren.

Congratulations to Captain Wilkes. Comments by

President Lincoln. Public Feeling in England. British

War Measures. Lord Palmerston's Note. The Queen

and Prince Albert. The British Demand. Lincoln's

Draft of a Dispatch. Seward's Dispatch. Surrender

of Mason and Slidell

CHAPTER III. THE TENNESSEE LINE

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End of Kentucky's Neutrality. The Rebels Occupy

Columbus. General A. S. Johnston Assigned to Con-

federate Command in the West. Buckner Occupies

Bowling Green. Zollicoffer Invades Eastern Ken-

tucky. Legislature Demands Confederate Withdrawal.

Grant Occupies Paducah. Anderson Resumes Com-

mand in Kentucky. Sherman's Advance to Mul-

draugh's Hill. Preparations to Defend Frankfort.

Sherman Succeeds Anderson. Cameron's Conference

with Sherman. Lincoln's Letter to Governor Morton.

Johnston Calls Out Reënforcements. His Defensive

Policy

CHAPTER IV. EAST TENNESSEE

Loyalty of East Tennessee. Maynard and Clements

Elected to Congress. The Work of Nelson and Carter.

Governor Harris's Call for Help. Lincoln Suggests

Expedition to East Tennessee. Thomas Recommends

Movement on East Tennessee. Sherman Relieved

from Command. Buell Sent to Kentucky. Lincoln

Proposes a Railroad to East Tennessee. McClellan

Repeats His Instructions. Buell's Inaction. Corre-

spondence About the East Tennessee Movement. Lin-

coln's Letter to Buell. East Tennessee Movement

Abandoned. A Union Rising. Execution of Bridge-

burners. Arrest of "Parson" Brownlow

CHAPTER V. HALLECK

Department of Kansas Created. Hunter Assigned to

Command. Halleck Assigned to Command the De-

partment of Missouri. General Pike and the Indians.

The Lane Expedition. General Halleck. Price's Call

for Volunteers. Ex-Governor Jackson Convenes his

Rebel Legislature. Missouri Admitted to Confederate

States. Correspondence Between Halleck and Price.

Pope's Victory near Milford. Curtis's Campaign in

Southwest Missouri. Halleck's Order No. 3. State

Convention Reassembles. Missouri State Militia Or-

ganized. Amnesty and Oaths of Allegiance

CHAPTER VI. LINCOLN DIRECTS COÖPERATION

The Illness of McClellan. Lincoln's Suggestions to

Western Commanders. The Tennessee Expedition

Urged. Halleck's Views on the Western Campaign.

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