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 ..

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THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN

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POSITIONS PRELIMINARY TO THE BATTLE OF SEVEN PINES... 384 JACKSON'S CAMPAIGN IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY

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REGION OF THE SEVEN DAYS' FIGHTING-PART I

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

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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

End of Kentucky's Neutrality. The Rebels Occupy

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

federate Command in the West. Buckner Occupies

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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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Lincoln Directs Concert of Action. Grant's Tennessee

Reconnaissance. Military Conditions at Cairo. Mc-

Clernand's March to Mayfield. Smith's March to

Calloway. Gunboat Reconnaissance of Fort Henry.

McClernand's Report. Lincoln's Advice on the

Western Campaign. Halleck Suggests a Tennessee

Movement

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CHAPTER VII. GRANT AND THOMAS IN KENTUCKY

Characteristics of Grant. His Early Western Duties.

Commands the Post of Cairo. The Battle of Belmont.

Grant's Narrow Escape. Lincoln's Letter to Mc-

Clernand. Thomas in Eastern Kentucky. Zollicoffer's

Camp. Buell's Orders to Thomas. Zollicoffer Attacks

Thomas. Death of Zollicoffer. Rebel Retreat from

Mill Springs. The Western Gunboats. The Capture

of Fort Henry

CHAPTER VIII. CAMERON AND STANTON

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Arming Contrabands. Cameron's Report on Arming

Slaves. Lincoln Modifies Cameron's Report. Cam-

eron Appointed Minister to Russia. Stanton Made

Secretary of War. Censure of Cameron by the House

of Representatives. Lincoln's Special Message. Stan-

ton and Buchanan. Lincoln's First Meeting with

Stanton. Stanton's Criticisms of Lincoln. Personal

Relations Between the Two. Stanton's Duties and

Services. Lincoln's Note about Mrs. Baird. Corre-

spondence about the Discharge of Certain Prisoners.

The Incident about Prisoners-of-War at Rock Island . 123

CHAPTER IX. PLANS OF CAMPAIGN

Lincoln Suggests a Plan of Campaign. McClellan's

Notes and Answers. Committee on the Conduct of

the War Appointed. Lincoln's Admonitions to Mc-

Clellan. McClellan's Estimate of the Enemy. John-

ston's Report of His Force. Confederate Council of

War. McClellan's Illness. Lincoln's Councils of War.

Lincoln's General War Order, No. 1. The President's

Special War Order, No. 1. McClellan's Council of War.

The Harper's Ferry Fiasco. General War Orders

No. 2 and No. 3 .

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