History of the Civil War, 1861–1865

James Ford Rhodes

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1918, Rhodes’s chronicle of the War Between the States both provides the general reader with a clearly written description of the events of four bloody years as well as reveals the self-educated author’s belief in the war’s cause as the evil of slavery.

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Contents

Preface    Abbreviations of Titles of Authorities    Subject Index

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1917 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2000

Chapter I

The Great Factor in Destruction of Slavery;   Theory of South Carolina;   Crittenden Compromise;   Southern Confederacy;   Lincoln’s Inaugural Address;   Anderson and Fort Sumter;   Seward’s Foreign Policy;   Bread for Anderson;   Bombardment of Fort Sumter;   Rising of the North;   Baltimore Riot;   The Blockade;   Supposed Danger to Washington;   The Border States;   The Civil War;   Unpreparedness;   Jefferson Davis;   Lincoln;   “On to Richmond”;   Battle of Bull Run;   The President’s Courage

Chapter II

Congress;   Slavery the Cause of the War;   Frémont;   McClellan;   Great Britain’s Action;   English Sentiment;   Mason and Slidell;   English Precedents;   Lincoln and Seward;   Surrender of Mason and Slidell

Chapter III

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;   Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation;   Lincoln and Greeley;   “Three Hundred Thousand More”;   Pope and Halleck;   Pope’s Defeat;   McClellan Again in Command;   Lee’s Invasion of Maryland;   Battle of Antietam;   Proclamation of Emancipation

Chapter V

Fall Elections of 1862;   Alarm in Cincinnati;   Buell and Morton;   McClellan’s Removal;   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

Chapter VI

Lee’s Invasion of Pennsylvania;   Meade Succeeds Hooker;   Battle of Gettysburg;   Pickett’s Charge;   Lee — Meade;   Lincoln — Meade;   Grant’s Expedition Against Vicksburg;   Vicksburg Campaign;   Grant;   Surrender of Vicksburg

Chapter VII

English Sentiment;   The Alabama;   English Mediation Proposed;   Gladstone;   Charles Francis Adams;   Earl Russell;   The Emperor of the French;   Anti-Slavery Sentiment;   The Times — Saturday Review;   Grote — Carlyle;   Dickens — Trollope — Tennyson;   Iron-Clad Rams;   England and France

Chapter VIII

New York Draft Riot;   Meade;   Battle of Chickamauga;   Grant in Command;   Thomas — Grant;   Battle of Chattanooga;   Recruits Wanted;   Grant — Sherman — Thomas — Sheridan

Chapter IX

Grant;   Grant’s Wilderness Campaign;   Battle of Cold Harbor;   Chattanooga — Atlanta Campaign;   Sherman — Thomas;   Lincoln — Chase;   Grant’s Campaign;   Lincoln Renominated

Chapter X

Lincoln — Grant;   Washington in Danger;   Disappointment in Grant;   Men Wanted;   Johnston — Hood;   Yearning for Peace;   Dissatisfaction with Lincoln;   Battle of Mobile Bay;   Capture of Atlanta;   Sheridan;   Lincoln Reëlected

Chapter XI

Life at the North;   Privations of the War;   Postage Stamps Currency;   Fractional Currency;   Gloom — Despair;   Business Activity;   Arbitrary Arrests;   Copperheads;   Seymour — Vallandigham;   The Democrats;   Arbitrary Arrests;   Sanitary Fairs;   Trade with the South;   Grave Financial Position;   The Northern Governors;   Stanton — Lincoln

Chapter XII

Discomfort at the South;   Lack of Tea and Coffee;   Lack of Bread and Meat;   Difficulty of Transportation;   The Age of Iron;   Munitions of War;   Blockade Running;   The Negro Slaves;   Conscription at the South;   Carnival of Fiat Money;   High Prices in the Confederacy;   Impressment Imperative;   The Southern Women;   Distress and Privations;   Religious Feeling South;   Comparison Between South and North;   North — A Dictatorship;   South — A Socialized State;   Davis — Lincoln

Chapter XIII

Sherman — Thomas;   Sherman’s March to the Sea;   Living on the Country;   Destruction;   The Negroes;   Savannah Taken;   Grant — Thomas;   Battle of Nashville;   Thirteenth Amendment;   Distress in the Confederacy;   Lee — Jefferson Davis;   Hampton Roads Conference;   Lincoln’s Magnanimity

Chapter XIV

Sherman’s March Northward;   South Carolina;   Sherman’s Army;   Lincoln — Grant — Sherman;   Grant — Lee;   Evacuation of Richmond;   General Lee’s Surrender;   Assassination of Lincoln;   The End of the War