CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

PAGD

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V THE GREAT FACTOR IN DESTRUCTION OF SLAVERY

V THEORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

r CRITTENDEN COMPROMISE

r SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY

r LINCOLN'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS

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ANDERSON AND FORT SUMTER

SEWARD'S FOREIGN POLICY

BREAD FOR ANDERSON

BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER

RISING OF THE NORTH

BALTIMORE RIOT

VTHE BLOCKADE

SUPPOSED DANGER TO WASHINGTON

THE BORDER STATES

THE CIVIL WAR

WUNPREPAREDNESS

VJEFFERSON DAVIS

LINCOLN

V “ON TO RICHMOND"

V BATTLE OF BULL RUN

VTHE PRESIDENT'S COURAGE

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CHAPTER II

CONGRESS

V SLAVERY THE CAUSE OF THE WAR

FRÉMONT

MCCLELLAN

GREAT BRITAIN'S ACTION

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SIMON CAMERON

EDWIN M. STANTON

FORT DONELSON

SURRENDER OF DONELSON

ULYSSES S. GRANT

McCLELLAN'S DALLIANCE

GRANT AND HALLECK

GRANT AND SHERMAN SURPRISED AT SHILOH

BATTLE OF SHILOH

LINCOLN AND GRANT

THE BLOCKADE

THE MERRIMAC

THE MONITOR

FARRAGUT - Fox

FARRAGUT'S CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS

MCCLELLAN'S PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN

STONEWALL JACKSON'S CAMPAIGN

"THE GREAT SCARE"

BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS

ROBERT E. LEE

BATTLE OF GAINES'S MILL

MCCLELLAN'S DEMORALIZATION

LEE AND MCCLELLAN

LEE AND JACKSON

SEVEN DAYS' BATTLES

CHAPTER IV

LEGAL-TENDER ACT

LINCOLN'S ATTITUDE TO SLAVERY

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FALL ELECTIONS OF 1862

ALARM IN CINCINNATI

BUELL AND MORTON

McCLELLAN'S REMOVAL V

UNFORTUNATE CHOICE OF BURNSIDE

BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG .

THE CABINET CRISIS

LINCOLN'S SAGACITY

LINCOLN CHASE

LINCOLN - SEWARD

BATTLE OF STONE'S RIVER

ACTION OF CONGRESS

POPULAR FEELING AND ACTION

HOOKER IN COMMAND

BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE

EFFECT OF CHANCELLORSVILLE

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CHAPTER VI

LEE'S INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA

MEADE SUCCEEDS HOOKER

BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

PICKETT'S CHARGE

LEE MEADE

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