| Other author/creator | Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937 editor. |
| Other author/creator | Buel, Clarence Clough, 1850-1933, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Tompkins, Frank, former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Century Company, editor, publisher. |
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Volume 1 (2 parts). Introduction. Preliminary events -- Organization of th two governments -- Signs of war. Washington on the eve of the war / General Charles P. Stone -- With Slemmer in Pensacola Harbor / Colonel J.H. Gilman -- Recollections of the Twiggs surrender / Mrs. Caroline Baldwin Darrow -- Fort Sumter. From Moultrie to Sumter / General Abner Doubleday -- Inside Sumter in '61 / Captain James Chester -- The first step in the war / General Stephen D. Lee -- Notes on the surrender of Fort Sumter / Colonel A.R. Chisolm -- Organizing for the conflict. War preparations in the North / General Jacob D. Cox -- The confederate government at Montgomery, by the editor of the Charleston "Mercury" in 1860-2 / R. Barnwell Rhett -- First operations in Virginia. Jackson at Harper's Ferry in 1861 / General John D. Imboden -- McClellan in West Virginia / General Jacob D. Cox -- Fireside and field of battle. Going to the front (recollections of a private) / Warren Lee Goss -- Virginia scenes in '61 / Mrs. Burton Harrison -- Campaign of the first Bull Run. McDowell's advance to Bull Run / General James B. Fry -- The opposing armies at the first Bull Run. Table of strength, composition, and losses -- The first battle of Bull Run / General G.T. Beauregard -- Incidents of the first Bull Run / General John D. Imboden -- Responsibilities of the first Bull Run / General Joseph E. Johnston -- General Ewell at Bull Run / Major Campbell Brown -- The Confederate Commissariat at Manassas / Colonel L.B. Northrop -- Wilson's Creek, Lexington, and Pea Ridge. The first year of the war in Missouri / Colonel Thomas L. Snead -- In command in Missouri / General John C. Fremont -- Wilson's Creek, and the death of Lyon / General William M. Wherry -- Arkansas troop's in the Battle of Wilson's Creek / General N.B. Pearce -- The flanking column at Wilson's Creek / General Franz Sigel -- The siege of Lexington / Colonel James A. Mulligan -- The Pea Ridge campaign / General Franz Sigel -- Union and Confederate Indians in the Civil War / Wiley Britton -- Belmont and Fort Henry. Recollections of Foote and the gun-boats / Captain James B. Eads -- Notes on the life of Admiral Foote (by his brother) / John A. Foote -- General Polk and the Battle of Belmont (by his son) / Captain William M. Polk -- The gun-boats at Belmont and Fort Henry / Rear-Admiral Henry Walke -- The defense of Fort Henry / Captain Jesse Taylor -- Mill Springs, the Big Sandy, and Fort Donelson. Holding Kentucky for the Union / Colonel R.M. Kelly --The opposing forces at Logan's Cross Roads, Ky. (Mill Springs or Fishing Creek) composition, strength, and losses -- Marshall and Garfield in Eastern Kentucky / Rev. Edward O. Guerrant -- The capture of Fort Donelson / General Lew Wallace -- The opposing forces at Fort Donelson, Tenn. composition, strength and losses -- The river gun-boats from Fort Donelson to New Madrid. The Western Flotilla at Fort Donelson, Island Number Ten, Fort Pillow, and Memphis / Rear-Admiral Henry Walke -- Ellet and his steam-rams at Memphis / General Alfred W. Ellet -- Sawing out the channel above Island Number Ten / Colonel J. W. Bissell -- Comment on Colonel Bissell's paper / General Schuyler Hamilton -- The opposing forces at New Madrid (Island Number Ten), Fort Pillow, and Memphis. Composition, strength, and losses -- Shiloh. The Battle of Shiloh / General Ulysses S. Grant -- Shiloh reviewed / General Don Carlos Buell -- Skirmishing in Sherman's front / Robert W. Medkirk -- The opposing forces at Shiloh. Composition, strengths, and losses -- Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh (by his son) / Col. William Preston Johnston -- The campaign of Shiloh / General G. T. Beauregard -- Notes of a Confederate staff-officer at Shiloh / General Thomas Jordan -- Surprise and withdrawal at Shiloh / Colonel S.H. Lockett -- The Shiloh Battle order and the withdrawal Sunday evening / Colonel A.R. Chisolm -- The march of Lew Wallace's division to Shiloh with documents submitted by General Lee Wallace -- Naval preparations. The Union and Confederate Navies / Professor J.R. Soley -- Coast operations in the Carolinas. Early coast operations in North Carolina / General Rush C. Hawkins -- The Burnside expedition / General A.E. Burnside -- The opposing forces at Roanoke Island and New Berne, North Carolina -- Du Pont and the Port Royal expedition / Rear-Admiral Daniel Ammen -- The opposing forces at Port Royal. Composition and losses -- "Monitor" and "Merrimac." The first fight of Iron-clads / Colonel John Taylor Wood -- Watching the "Merrimac" / General R.E. Colston -- How the gun-boat "Zouave" aided the "Congress" / Acting Master Henry Reaney -- The plan and construction of the "Merrimac" / Commander John M. Brooke, Constructor, John L. Porter -- Notes on the "Monitor"-"Merrimac" fight / surgeon Dinwiddie B. Phillips -- In the "Monitor" turret / Commander S. Dana Greene -- The building of the "Monitor" / Captain John Ericsson -- The loss of the 'Monitor" / Francis B. Butts -- Negotiations for the building of the "Monitor'. |
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Volume 2 (2 parts). Fort Pulaski. Siege and capture of Fort Pulaski / General Q. A. Gillmore -- The capture of New Orleans. Early operations in the Gulf / Professor J. Russell Soley -- New Orleans before the capture / George W. Cable -- The opening of the lower Mississippi / Admiral David D. Porter -- The "Brooklyn" at the passage of the forts / Com. John Russell Bartlett -- Farragut's capture of New Orleans / William T. Meredith -- The opposing forces in the operations at New Orleans, La. Composition, losses, and strength -- Fighting Farragut below New Orleans / Captain Beverley Kennon -- The ram "Manassas" at the passage of the New Orleans forts / Captain A.F. Warley -- Incidents of the occupation of New Orleans / Captain Albert Kautz -- Farragut's demands for the surrender of New Orleans / Marion A. Baker -- The Water-Battery at Fort Jackson / Captain Williams B. Robertson -- Confederate responsibilities for Farragut's success / James Grimshaw Duncan, Commodore John K. Mitchell -- Operations in the far South-West. The Confederate invasion of New Mexico and Arizona / Captain George H. Pettis -- Canby's services in the New Mexican campaign / Brevet Brig.-General Latham Anderson -- Canby at Valverde / Lieut.-Colonel A.W. Evans -- Sibley's New Mexican campaign / Major T.T. Teel -- Events of 1861-2. McClellan organizing the grand army / Philippe, Comte De Paris -- Ball's Bluff and the arrest of General Stone / Colonel Richard B. Irwin -- Captain Wilkes's seizure of Mason and Slidell / Rear-Admiral D. MacN. Fairfax -- Early operations on the Potomac River / Professor J. Russell Soley -- Operations of 1861 about Fort Monroe / General Joseph B.Carr -- Campaigning to no purpose (recollections of a private) / Warren Lee Goss -- McClellan before Richmond. The Peninsular campaign / General George B. McClellan -- Yorktown and Williamsburg / Warren Lee Goss -- The opposing forces at Williamsburg, VA. composition, strength, and losses -- Confederate use of subterranean shells on the Peninsula -- Manassas to Seven Pines / General Joseph E. Johnston -- The opposing forces at Seven Pines. Composition, strengths, and losses -- Two days of battle at Seven Pines / General Gustavus W. Smith -- The Navy in the Peninsular campaign / Professor J. Russell Soley -- Stuart's ride around McClellan / Colonel W.T. Robins -- Anecdotes of the Peninsular campaign -- The Shenandoah Valley in '62. West Virginia operations under Fremont / General Jacob D. Cox -- Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah / General John D. Imboden -- Notes on the Battle of McDowell -- The opposing forces in the Valley campaigns. Composition, losses, and strength -- Fighting Jackson at Kernstown / General Nathan Kimball -- The Seven Days' fighting. The opposing forces in the Seven Days' Battles. Composition, losses, and strength -- Hanover Court House and Gaines's Mill / General Fitz John Porter -- The charge of Cooke's Cavalry at Gaines's Mill / General P. St. George Cooke -- Recollections of a participant in the charge / Rev. W.H. Hitchcock -- Lee's attacks north of the Chickahominy / General Daniel H. Hill -- On the Confederate right at Gaines's Mill / General E.M. Law -- The cause of a silent battle / Professor John B. Demotte -- Rear-Guard fighting during the change of base / General E.B. Franklin -- McClellan's change of base and Malvern Hill / General Daniel H. Hill -- "The Seven Day," including Frayser's farm / General James Longstreet -- The Battle of Malvern Hill / General Fitz John Porter -- The army of the Potomac at Harrison's Landing / George L. Kilmer -- With the cavalry on the Peninsula / General William W. Averell -- The rear-guard at Malvern Hill / Brevet-Major Henry E. Smith, General Erasmus D. Keyes -- The administration in the Peninsular campaign / Lieut.-Colonel Richard B. Irwin -- Richmond scenes in '62 / Mrs. Burton Harrison Lee's campaign against Pope. The second battle of Bull Run / General John Pope -- In vindication of General Rufus King / Captain Charles King -- The opposing forces at Cedar (Slaughter) Mountain, Va. -- The opposing forces at the second Bull Run -- Jackson's Raid around Pope / General W.B. Taliaferro -- Our March against Pope / General James Longstreet -- The time of Longstreet's arrival at Groveton -- Marching on Manassa / Major W. Roy Mason -- Jackson's "Foot-cavalry" at the second Bull Run / Allen c. Redwood -- The Sixth Corps at the second Bull Run / General William B. Franklin -- Washington under Banks / Lieut.-Colonel Richard B. Irwin -- Lee's invasion of Maryland. From the Peninsula to Antietam / General George B. McClellan -- In the ranks to the Antietam / David L. Thompson -- The Battle of South Mountain, or Boonsboro / General Daniel H. Hill -- Forcing Fox's Gap and Turner's Gap / General Jacob D. Cox -- Notes on Crampton's Gap and Antietam / General William B. Franklin -- The opposing forces in the Maryland campaign -- The finding of Lee's lost order / General Silas Colgrove -- Jackson's capture of Harper's Ferry / General John G. Walker -- The capitulation of Harper's Ferry / General Julius White -- Stonewall Jackson's intentions at Harper's Ferry / General Bradley T. Johnson, Colonel Henry Kyd Douglas -- The opposing forces at Harper's Ferry, Va. -- The historical basis of Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie" / George O. Seilheimer -- Stonewall Jackson in Maryland / Colonel Henry Kyd Douglas -- The battle of Antietam / General Jacob D. Cox -- Will Burnside at Antietam / David L. Thompson -- The invasion of Maryland / General James Longstreet -- Sharpsburg / General John G. Walker -- Antietam scenes / Charles Carleton Coffin -- A woman's recollections of Antietam / Mary Bedinger Mitchell -- The case of Fitz John Porter / Lieut.-Colonel Richard B. Irwin -- Iuka and Corinth. Operations in North Alabama / General Don Carlos Buell -- The locomotive chase in Georgia / Rev. William Pittenger -- Notes on the locomotive chase / General James B. Fry -- With Price east of the Mississippi / Colonel Thomas L. Snead -- The Battle of Iuka / General Charles S. Hamilton -- The opposing forces at Iuka, Miss. -- The Battle of Corinth / General William S. Rosecrans -- Hamilton's division at Corinth / General Charles S. Hamilton -- An order to charge at Corinth / General David S. Stanley -- The opposing forces at Corinth. |
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Volume 3 (2 parts). The Perryville campaign. Bragg's invasion of Kentucky / General Joseph Wheeler -- Morgan's Cavalry during the Bragg invasion / General Basil W. Duke -- The opposing forces at Perryville, Ky. -- East Tennessee and the campaign of Perryville, KY. -- East Tennessee and the campaign of Perryville / General Don Carlos Buell -- On the field of Perryville / General Charles C. Gilbert -- Notes of a staff-officer at Perryville / Major J. Montgomery Wright -- Cumberland Gap / General George W. Morgan -- The opposing forces at Cumberland Gap -- Burnside at Fredericksburg. The battle of Fredericksburg / General James Longstreet -- The Confederate left at Fredericksburg / General Lafayette McLaws -- Ransom's Division at Fredericksburg / General Robert Ransom -- Kershaw's Brigade at Fredericksburg / General J.B. Kershaw -- A hot day on Marye's Heights / Lieutenant William Miller Owen -- Notes of a Confederate Staff-officer / Major W. Roy Mason -- The removal of McClellan / Colonel Richard B. Irwin -- Sumner's "Right Grand Division" / General Darius N. Couch -- The crossing of the Rappahannock by the 19th Massachusetts / Captain H.G. O. Weymouth -- The Pontoniers at Fredericksburg / Colonel Wesley Brainerd -- In front of the stone wall at Fredericksburg / General John W. Ames -- Why Burnside did not renew the attack at Fredericksburg / General Rush C. Hawkins -- Franklin's "Left Grand Division" / General William Farrar Smith -- With Jackson at Hamilton's crossing / J.H. Moore -- In the ranks at Fredericksburg / George E. Smith, Orson B. Curtis -- The opposing forces at Fredericksburg -- A bit of partisan service / Colonel John S. Mosby -- Chancellorsville. Stoneman's raid in the Chancellorsville campaign -- The Chancellorsville campaign / General Darius N. Couch -- The successes and failures of Chancellorsville / General Alfred Pleasonton -- When Stonewall Jackson turned our right / John L. Collins -- The charge of the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry / Gen. Pennock Huey, Major J. Edward Carpenter, Capt. Andrew B. Wells -- The artillery at Hazel Grove / Captain James F. Huntington -- The Eleventh Corps at Chancellorsville / General Oliver O. Howard -- Stonewall Jackson's last battle / Rev. James Power Smith -- Hooker's comments on Chancellorsville / Samuel P. Bates -- Sedgwick at Fredericksburg and Salem Heights / Colonel Huntington W. Jackson -- Lee's knowledge of Hooker's movements / General R. E. Colston -- The opposing forces in the Chancellorsville campaign -- Hooker's appointment and removal / Charles F. Benjamin -- Gettysburg. Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania / General James Longstreet -- The Confederate Cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign / Colonel John S. Mosby, General Beverly H. Robertson -- The first day at Gettysburg / General Henry J. Hunt -- Incidents of the first day at Gettysburg / Major E.P. Halstead -- Hancock and Howard in the first days fight -- Citizens of Gettysburg in the Union Army / H.M.M. Richards -- The second day at Gettysburg / General Henry J. Hunt -- The council of war on the second day / General John Gibbon -- The 20th Maine at Little Round Top / H.S. Melcher -- The 146th New York at Little Round Top / General James G. Grindlay -- The Breastworks at Culp's Hill / Captain Jesse H. Jones, General George S. Greene -- The struggle for 'Round Top' / General E.M. Law -- Kershaw's Brigade at Gettysburg / General J.B. Kershaw -- Lee's Right Wing at Gettysburg / General James Longstreet -- The charge of Pickett, Pettigrew, and Trimble / J.B. Smith -- A reply to General Longstreet / Colonel William Allan -- The great charge and artillery fighting at Gettysburg / General E.P. Alexander -- The third day at Gettysburg / General Henry J. Hunt -- General Hancock and the artillery at Gettysburg / General Francis A. Walker, Rejoinder by Gen.Henry J. Hunt -- Repelling Lee's last blow at Gettysburg / Colonel Edmund Rice, from the official report of Colonel Norman J. Hall, from the report of General Alexander S. Webb, Lieutenant L.E. Bicknell -- Farnsworth's charge and death / Captain H.C. Parson -- The cavalry battle near Gettysburg / Captain William E. Miller -- Meade at Gettysburg / General Francis A. Walker -- The Meade-Sickles controversy -- The Confederate retreat from Gettysburg / General John D. Imboden -- A prisoner's march from Gettysburg to Staunton / John L. Collins -- The opposing forces at Gettysburg, Pa. -- The Vicksburg year. The conquest of Arkansas / Colonel Thomas L. Snead -- The opposing forces in Arkansas -- The assault on Chickasaw Bluffs / General George W. Morgan -- The opposing forces at Chickasaw Bluffs (or First Vicksburg), Miss. -- Jefferson Davis and the Mississippi campaign / General Joseph E. Johnston -- The defense of Vicksburg / S.H. Lockett -- The Vicksburg campaign / General Ulysses S. Grant -- The Vicksburg mine / General Andrew Hickenlooper -- The terms of surrender -- The opposing forces in the Vicksburg campaign -- Naval operations int eh Vicksburg campaign / Professor James Russell Soley -- Gulf operations in 1862 and 1863 / Professor James Russell Soley -- The Confederate gun-boat "Arkansas" / Captain Isaac N. Brown -- Confederate torpedoes in the Yazoo / Captain Isaac N. Brown -- Union vessels in the Vicksburg operations -- Port Hudson. Military operations in Louisiana in 1862 / Colonel Richard B. Irwin -- The opposing forces at Baton Rouge, LA. -- The capture of Port Hudson / Colonel Richard B. Irwin -- The opposing forces at Port Hudson, La. -- Murfreesboro'. Bragg's advance and retreat / Colonel David Urquhart -- The opposing forces at Stone's River, Tenn. -- The battle of Stone's River / Colonel Gilbert C. Kniffin -- The Union left at Stone's River / General Thomas L. Crittenden -- Morgan's Ohio raid -- Chickamauga. Maneuvring Bragg out of Tennessee / Colonel Gilbert C. Kniffin -- Chickamauga- the great battle of the west / General Daniel H. Hill -- General Polk at Chickamauga / Captain W.M. Polk -- The crisis at Chickamauga / General Gates P. Thruston -- Reinforcing Thomas at Chickamauga / General J.S. Fullerton -- Notes on the Chickamauga campaign / General Emerson Opdycke -- The opposing forces at Chickamauga, GA. -- Chattanooga. The little steamboat that opened the 'cracker line' / General William G. Le Duc -- Chattanooga / General Ulysses S. Grant -- Sherman's attack at the tunnel / Captain S.H.M. Byers -- Comments on General Grant's "Chattanooga" -- The army of the Cumberland / General Joseph S. Fullerton -- General Bragg's comments on Missionary Ridge -- Opposing forces in the Chattanooga campaign -- The defense of Knoxville / General Orlando M. Poe -- Longstreet at Knoxville / General E.P. Alexander -- The opposing forces at Knoxville. |
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Volume 4 (2 parts). Charleston. The defense of Charleston / General G.T. Beauregard -- The Confederate defense of Fort Sumter / Major John Johnson -- Minor operations of the South Atlantic squadron under Du Pont / Professor James Russell Soley -- The early monitors / Captain John Ericsson -- Du Pont's attack at Charleston / Rear-Admiral C.R.P. Rodgers -- The boat attack on Sumter / Rear Admiral Thos. H. Stevens -- The South Atlantic blockading squardron -- The army before Charleston in 1863 / General Quincy A. Gillmore -- The "swamp angel" / Colonel William S. Stryker -- The opposing land forces at Charleston -- Olustee. The battle of Olustee, or Ocean Pond / General Samuel Jones -- The battle of Olustee, Florida / General Joseph R. Hawley -- Operations after Gettysburg. From Gettysburg to the coming of Grant / General Martin T. McMahon -- Kilpatrick's and Dahlgren's raid to Richmond / George E. Pond -- The Wilderness campaign. Preparing for the campaigns of '64 / General Ulysses S. Grant -- From the wilderness to Cold Harbor / General E.M. Law -- General Grant on the Wilderness campaign (extract from his report dated July 22d, 1865) -- Through the Wilderness / General Alexander S. Webb -- Hand-to-hand fighting at Spotsylvania / G. Norton Galloway -- The death of General John Sedgwick / General Martin T. McMahon -- McAllister's brigade at the "Bloody Angle" / General Robert McAllister -- Edward's brigade at the "Bloody Angle" / James L. Bowen -- The opposing forces at the beginning of Grant's campaign against Richmond -- The opposing forces at Cold Harbor, June 1st, 1864 -- Sheridan's Richmond raid / General Theo. F. Rodenbough -- The death of General J.E.B. Stuart / by a private of the Sixth Virginia Cavalry -- The defense of Drewry's Bluff / General G.T. Beauregard -- Butler's attack on Drewry's Bluff / General WM. Farrar Smith -- Cold Harbor / General Martin T. McMahon -- The Eighteenth Corps at Cold Harbor / General WM. Farrar Smith -- Notes on Cold Harbor / George Cary Eggleston -- Sheridan's Trevilian raid / General Theo. F. Rodenbough -- The cavalry fight at Trevilian Station / General M.C. Butler -- General Lee in the Wilderness campaign / Colonel Charles S. Venable -- Atlanta. The grand strategy of the last year of the war / General W.T. Sherman -- Opposing Sherman's advance to Atlanta / General Joseph E. Johnston -- The opening of the Atlanta campaign / Colonel W.C.P. Breckinridge -- The Confederate strength in the Atlanta campaign / Major E.D. Dawes -- The opposing forces in the Atlanta campaign -- The struggle for Atlanta / General Oliver O. Howard -- Hood's second sortie at Atlanta / Major W.H. Chamberlin -- The Georgia militia about Atlanta / General Gustavus W. Smith -- The defense of Atlanta / General John B. Hood -- Final operations in Arkansas and Missouri. The Red River campaign / Colonel Richard B. Irwin -- The Navy in the Red River / Captain Thos. O. Selfridge, Jr. -- The Mississippi Flotilla in the Red River expedition -- The opposing forces in the Red River campaign -- The opposing forces in Arkansas -- The defense of the Red River / General E. Kirby Smith -- Resume of military operations in Missouri and Arkansas, 1864-65 / Wiley Britton -- Mobile and the Gulf. Farragut at Mobile Bay / Lieut. John Coddington Kinney -- The opposing forces at Mobile -- The Ram "Tennessee" at Mobile Bay / Commander James D. Johnston -- The lashing of Admiral Farragut in the rigging / Capt. J. Crittenden Watson, Lieut.-Com. Joseph Marthon -- The defense of Fort Morgan / General Richard L. Page -- Land operations against Mobile / Colonel Richard B. Irwin -- Closing operations in the Gulf and Western Rivers / Professor James Russell Soley -- Cavalry operations on the Tennessee line. Cavalry operations in the West under Rosecrans and Sherman / Captain Thomas Speed -- The Sooy Smith expedition / Colonel George E. Waring, Jr. -- The capture of Fort Pillow, (April 12th, 1864) -- Forrest's defeat of Sturgis at Brice's Cross-Roads / Adjutant E. Hun Hanson -- A.J. Smith's defeat of Forrest at Tupelo / Captain W.S. Burns -- John Morgan in 1864 / General Basil W. Duke -- Hood's invasion of Tennessee. The invasion of Tennessee / General J.B. Hood -- General Cheatham at Spring Hill / General B.F. Cheatham -- The death of Generals Cleburne and Adams -- Repelling Hood's invasion of Tennessee / Colonel Henry Stone -- The Union cavalry in the Hood campaign / General James Harrison Wilson -- The opposing forces at Nashville, December 15th-16th, 1864 -- Up and down the Shenandoah. Operations in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia / Rev. Edward O. Guerrant -- The battle of New Market, VA,. May 15th, 1864 / General John D. Imboden -- Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 / General Franz Sigel -- The opposing forces at New Market, VA -- The opposing forces in the Lynchburg expedition -- Early's march to Washington in 1864 / General Jubal A. Early -- The opposing forces at the Monocacy, MD -- Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley / General Wesley Merritt -- Winchester, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek / General Jubal A. Early -- The opposing forces at Cedar Creek -- Petersburg. Operations south of the James River / General August V. Kautz, General R.E. Colston -- Four days of battle at Petersburg / General G.T. Beauregard -- The battle of the Petersburg Crater / Major William H. Powell -- The Crater / Major Charles H. Houghton -- The colored troops at Petersburg / Gen. Henry Goddard Thomas -- Actions on the Weldon Railroad / General Orlando B. Willcox -- General Grant on the siege of Petersburg -- Gordon's attack at Fort Stedman / George L. Kilmer -- The recapture of Fort Stedman / General John F. Hartranft -- The opposing forces at Petersburg and Richmond -- The Confederate cruisers / Professor James Russell Soley -- Cruise and combats of the "Alabama" / Captain John McIntosh Kell -- The duel between the "Alabama" and the "Kearsarge" / John M. Browne -- The Confederate ram "Albemarle". The first battle of the Confederate Ram "Albemarle" / Gilbert Elliott -- The "Albemarle" and the "Sassacus" / Edgar Holden -- The destruction of the "Albemarle" / Commander W.B. Cushing -- Note on the destruction of the "Albemarle". / Captain A.F. Warley -- The capture of Fort Fisher. The defense of Fort Fisher / Colonel William Lamb -- The Navy at Fort Fisher / Capt. Thos. O. Selfridge, Jr. -- The opposing forces at Fort Fisher, N.C. -- Sherman's March through the Confederacy. Sherman's advance from Atlanta / General Oliver O. Howard -- The Georgia Militia during Sherman's March to the sea / General Gustavus W. Smith -- Marching through Georgia and the Carolinas / Captain Daniel Oakey -- The failure to capture Hardee / Col. Alex Robert Chisolm -- Sherman's March from Savannah to Bentonville / General Henry W. Slocum -- The opposing forces in the campaign of the Carolinas -- The Battle of Bentonville / General Wade Hampton -- From the James to Appomattox court house. Closing operations in the James River / Professor James Russell Soley -- Five Forks and the pursuit of Lee / General Horace Porter -- General Warren at Five Forks, and the court of inquiry -- Lee's report of the surrender at Appomattox -- The fall of Richmond. The evacuation / Captain Clement Sulivane -- The occupation / Thomas Thatcher Graves -- The surrender at Appomattox court house / General Horace Porter -- General Lee's farewell address to his army -- The opposing forces in the Appomattox campaign -- Closing operations. Final operations of Sherman's army / General H.W. Slocum -- Opposing forces in Wilson's raid, March 22nd-April 20th, 1865 -- Wilson's Raid through Alabama and Georgia -- Last days of the Confederacy / General Basil W. Duke -- Notes on the Union and Confederate Armies -- Index to the 4 volumes. |
| Local note | Joyner Rare volumes include stamp of Frank Tompkins, Capt., 11, Cavalry on front and rear pastedowns. |
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| Issued in other form | Online version: Battles and leaders of the Civil War. Grant-Lee ed. New York : Century, ©1884-1887 |
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