Originally published in 1961. Includes index. "A Signet classic."
Contents:
The historic backgrounds of the issues of secession and slavery -- The political crises: from the Dred Scott decision to secession -- The fall of Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861 -- The issues in Washington and Richmond in 1861 -- Robert E. Lee and the offer of the United States command -- The First Battle of Bull Run, or Manassas -- Mason and Slidell: Confederate diplomacy abroad -- Du Pont's squadron at Port Royal -- The Battle for Missouri -- the capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson -- The Battle of Shiloh -- The Monitor and the Merrimack -- Capture of the Mississippi River Forts and New Orleans -- George McClelland and the army of the Potomac -- General Pope and Second Bull Run (Manassas) -- McClelland hlats Lee at Antietam -- Jeb Stuart's Chambersburg raid -- The road to emancipation -- Burnside and the Battle of Fredericksburg -- Chancellorsville The Vicksburg campaign -- The Gettysburg campaign -- Two minutes to Immortality -- The national election of 1864 -- General Sherman's campaign in Georgia -- Battles in the West: Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge -- The great locomotive chase -- The raids of Morgan, Dahlgren, and Quantrill -- Farragut is lashed to the rigging at Mobile Bay -- Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama -- Wilderness and Spotsylvania -- From Spotsylvania to Cold Harbor -- Early threatens Washington -- Fighting in the Shenandoah Valley -- Thomas Versus Hood in Tennessee -- Cushing destroys the Albemarle -- Negro troops in the Union Army -- Sherman's march to the sea -- Beauregard and Butler at Drewry's -- Grant moves south of the James -- The Red River expedition of Banks and Porter -- The bombardment and capture of Fort Fisher -- The long road to Appomattox -- The last days of Abraham Lincoln.
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