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History of the Great Rebellion
From Its Commencement To Its Close

Giving an Account of Its Origin, the Secession of the Southern States,
and the Formation of the Confederate Government,
Concentration of Military and Financial Resources of ederal Government,
Development of Its Vast Power, the Raising, Organizing, and Equipping of Contending Armies and Navies;
Lucid , Vivid, and Accurate Descriptions of Battles and Bombardments,
Sieges and Surrender of Forts, Captured Batteries, etc;
Immense Financial Resources and Comprehensive Measure of the Government,
The Enthusiasm and Patriotic Contributions of the People,
Sketches of the Lives of All the Eminent Statesmen and Military and Naval Commanders,
with a full and complete Index.

Complete In One Volume
by
Thomas P Kettell

This book is 144 years old!


COPYRIGHT: 1865 copyright with 1865 on title page
PUBLISHER: L Stebbins
PAGES: 778 pgs. measuring 6" x 9"
CONDITION: This old, leather book is a solid research or reading copy for anyone interested in Civil War history. The leather boards have wear, scrapes and corners have wear. The front outside board hinge is cracked but is still solid; the inside front hinge has been reinforced with archival cloth binding. The outside rear hinge is cracked on the top half of the hinge and the rest has no cracking; the rear inside hinge has also been reinforced with archival cloth binding. The boards are solid and intact due to the repairs and the original spine binding cords still being intact and good condition. The bottom spine leather is chipped. The leather has no leather rot. There are no signs of previous ownership. The pages have some age spots, some old smudge marks and a few have minor edgewear. The steel engraved plates are in good condition. Outside page edges are clean. No odors, pages are not brittle, and no missing pages (verified).


This is a solid book and complete in one volume (later editions were reprinted in two volumes)

The table of contents is listed below to help you better understand the vast amount of information in this Civil War history book. The entire index is also scanned and included below to aid you in your bidding decision. I won't take up any more of your time because there is far more interesting reading below. . . . Enjoy! Thomas Prentice Kettell (born 1811) was a 19th century American political economist, magazine editor, and author. He was a well-known economic commentator from the 1840s through Civil War. Kettell wrote for the New York Herald starting in 1835 as a financial columnist. He also wrote for Hunt's Magazine and later edited The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. He founded United States Economist in 1852. Kettell authored one of the earliest histories of the Civil War.

List of Illustrations: Lincoln, Late President • Frontispiece: Jefferson Davis • Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy • Bombardment of Fort Sumter • Hon. William H Seward, Secretary of State • Maj. Gen. G B McClellan • Maj. Gen. A E Burnside • Commodore D D Porter • Commodore Dahlgren • Commodore A H Foote • Lieut. J L Worden • Maj. Gen. B F Butler • Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker • Maj. Gen. W S Hancock • Maj. Gen. George G Meade • Maj. Gen. G H Thomas • Maj. Gen. P H Sheridan • Lieut. Gen. P G T Beauregard • Lieut. Gen. Braxton Bragg • Gen. T J Stonewall Jackson • Gen. Sterling Price • Gen. James Longstreet • Gen. John C Pemberton • Mag. Gen. Halleck • Vice Admiral Farragut • Charge on the Battery • Lieut. Gen. Grant • Cavalry Charge • Maj. Gen. J A Logan • Maj. Gen. W S Rosecrans • Maj. Gen. W T Sherman • Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick • Maj. Gen. A H Terry • Brig. Gen. N Lyon • Gunboats and Monitors Bombarding the Defenses of Charleston • Hon. E M Stanton, Secretary of War • Battle of the Wilderness • Lieut. Gen. R E Lee • Funeral Ceremony of the Late President Lincoln at the White House • Andrew Johnson, President of the United States

Maps: South Carolina • Virginia • Missouri • North Carolina • Alabama • Fredericksburg to Petersburg • Gettysburg to Fredericksburg • Tennessee and Kentucky • Mississippi • Charleston Harbor • Chattanooga to Atlanta • Mobile Harbor • Wilmington Harbor

Chapters: I. Secession determined upon by Southern Leaders • Treachery of Cabinet Officers • Division of Democratic Party • Election of Lincoln • John Brown Raid • Impending Crisis and "Compendium" • Movements for Secession in Cotton States

II. South Carolina Convention • Ordinance of Secession and Declaration of Causes • Resolutions for Convention of Seceded States • Mississippi Convention • Alabama Convention • Florida Ordinance • Seizure of Forts • Georgia's Resolution in response to New York • Ordinance of Secession • Louisiana Convention • Texas Convention • Vote of People • General Houston • Virginia Resolutions • Ordinance of Secession • Convention with Confederacy • Arkansas • Secession defeated • North Carolina Ordinance passed • Tennessee Act of Independence • Military League • Maryland Resolutions • Confederate Congress • Constitution • Jefferson Davis, President • Address

III. Meeting of Congress • President's Message • Resignation of Secretaries Cobb, Cass, Floyd and Thompson • Defalcations • Special Message of President • Committee of Thirty-three • Crittenden Resolutions • Border States' Plan • Virginia Resolutions • Peace Convention • Close of Congress • New Territories • Finance • Constitutional Amendment • Lincoln's Arrival at Washington • Inaugural; its Effects • Southern Commissioners • Supplies to Fort Sumter • Policy of Government • Charleston Harbor • Events at the South • Bombardment and Surrender of Fort Sumter • Fort Pickens Re-enforced

IV. Effect of Fall of Sumter • Call for 75,000 Troops, and Replies of States • Congress Convened • Destruction of Property at Norfolk • Effect of Proclamation at the North • Baltimore Riot • March of Troops to Washington • Position of Maryland • Proceedings of her Legislature • Pacification of Baltimore

V. Confederate Congress • Davis's Message • Virginia • Beauregard's Proclamation • Border States' Convention • Western Virginia • State Reorganization

VI. Troops concentrated at Washington • Popular Impatience • Occupation of Alexandria • Operations in Virginia

VII. Occupation of Fortress Monroe • Engagement at Big Bethel • Increase of Army • Army Organization • Want of Arms • Advance to Centreville • Bull Run

VIII. Missouri • Capture of State Troops • Booneville • Carthage • Shenandoah Valley • Patterson Crosses the Potomac-Bunker Hill • Campaign in Western Virginia • Philippi • Laurel Hill • Rich Mountain • Beverly • Western Virginia cleared of Rebels • McClellan transferred to Potomac

IX. Effect of Battle of Bull Run • Confederate Congress • Davis's Message • Privateering • Affairs in Missouri • Commissioners to Europe • Southern Armies and Finances

X. Meeting of Congress • President's Message • Naval and Military Affairs • Estimates for Year • Senators expelled • Acts passed • Confiscation • Operations of Treasury • Different Loans Authorized • Difficulties of Government • Habeas Corpus • The Press • Newspapers Suppressed

XI. Modern Art of War • Great Wars of Europe • New Principles • "Strategy" • "Tactics" • Formation of Soldiers • Education of Officers • Scientific Aspect of Present War • McClellan's Order • Restoration of Discipline • Army Organization • Inactivity of Enemy • His Projects • Hatteras Occupied • General Fremont in Missouri • Battle of Dug Springs • Battle of Wilson's Creek • Death of Lyon • Retreat of Army under Sigel • Martial Law • Position of Forces • Colonel Blair's Charges • Fremont's Proclamation • Manumnission •  Widlam • Capture of Lexington • Advance of Fremont • Retreat of Price • Major Zagonyi • Fremont Relieved

XII. Kentucky • Vote of the State • Meeting of Legislature • Message of Governor • Kentucky for the Union • Breckinridge's Proclamation • Military Movements • Cairo • Columbus, its Position and Strength • Paducah • Concentration of Troops • Mill Spring • Defeat and Death of Zollicoffer • Construction of Gunboats • Capture of Fort Henry • Bowling Green Evacuated • Fort Donelson • Escape of Pillow and Floyd • Fall of Nashville • Columbus Evacuated • Missouri under General Halleck

XIII. Affairs in Western Virginia • General Rosecrans • Oppression by General Wise • Population of Western Virginia • Confederate Troops • Gauley Bridge • Kanawha Expedition • Rosecrans's Command • Proclamation • General Lee • Elk River • Cheat Mountain • General Reynolds • His Command • Carnifex Ferry • The Battle • General Benham • Retreat of Enemy • Dogwood Gap • Big Sewall • General Floyd • General Reynolds • Green River. Enemy's Loss • Chapmanville • Gauley Bridge • Guyandotte • Romney • Camp Allegheny

XIV. Strength of Navy • Blockade • Captures by Navy • Large Increase of Ships of War • Right of Blockade • Propositions of American Government • Action of England and France • Privateers • The Sumter • The Nashville • Trial of Privateers • Laws of Piracy • Retaliation of the Confederates • Exchange of Prisoners

XV. Improved Efficiency of Navy • Expeditions • Port Royal • The Fleet • The Assault • Troops Landed • Proclamation • Stone Fleet • Ship Island • General Butler • Proclamation of General Phelps • Burnside's Expedition • Fort Pickens • Galveston • Combat on the Mississippi • Effectiveness of the Blockade

XVI. Army of the Potomac • Volunteers • Union Advance • Lewinsville • Ball's Bluff • General Scott Retires • McClellan in Command • Dranesville • Programme of Movement • President's Foreign Mission of Confederates • Mr. Seward's Letter of Instructions • Earl Russell and Confederates • France Recognizes defacto Governments • Foreign Recognition of the Belligerent Rights of the South • Mr. Seward's Reply • Spain • Mexico • Monroe Doctrine • The Trent Affair

XVIII. Age of Invention • Change in Arms • Springfield Rifle • Enfield Rifle • Repeating Arms • The Rodman Gun • Columbiads • Parrott Gun • Dahlgrens • Table of Guns in Service • Projectiles • Batteries

XIX The Situation • Army of the Potomac • General McClellan • Retreat of Enemy from Manassas • The Peninsular Campaign • Yorktown • McDowell's Corps Withdrawn • Siege of Yorktown

XX. Iron-plated Ships • Merrimac • Federal Fleet • Hampton Roads • Destruction of the Cumberland and Congress • Monitor • Iron-clad Duel • Repulse of the Merrimac

XXI. Evacuation of Yorktown • Retreat of the Enemy • Pursuit • Battle of Williamsburg • West Point • Advance of McClellan • Fort Darling • Repulse of the Gunboats

XXII. Taking of Norfolk • Chickahominy • Position of Enemy • Hanover Court-House • Battle of Fair Oaks • Advance of the Reserves • Retreat of Enemy

XXIII. General Jackson's Movement • Battle at Winchester • Advance on Banks • Shields ordered to join McDowell • Retreat of Banks • Front Royal • Banks driven across the Potomac • Mountain Department • Fremont supersedes Rosecrans • Battle at McDowell • Fremont's Corps ordered to support Banks • Object of Jackson's Raid • Fremont's Movement • Retreat of the Enemy • Harrisonburg • Cross Keys • Escape of Jackson • McDowell concentrates at Fredericksburg • Formation of Army of Virginia under Pope

XXIV. Continued Operations against Richmond • Combat of June 25th • McClellan's Dispatch • Mechanicsville • Gaines's Mills • Change of Base to the James River • White Oak Swamp • Malvern Hill • McClellan Addresses the Troops • Jefferson Davis's Address • Close of Campaign • Causes of Failure

XXV. Department of Missouri • General Halleck • Negotiations with Price • Van Dorn, Curtis, and Sigel • Pea Ridge

XXVI. Island No. Ten • Beauregard at Corinth • Battle of Pittsburg Landing • Huntsville • Fort Wright

XXVII. Halleck at Pittsburg Landing • Fall of Corinth • Pursuit • Memphis Occupied • General Grant •: End of Campaign • Halleck at Washington

XXVIII. Operations of Army of Virginia under General Pope • New Policy of Conducting the War • Cedar Mountain • Line of the Rappahannock • Flanking Movement of Stonewall Jackson • Second Battle of Bull Run • Chantilly • Death of Kearny • Evacuation of the Peninsula

XXIX. The Expedition of Burnside • Capture of Newbern • Beaufort Captured • Operations on the Southern Coast • Siege of Fort Pulaski • James Island

XXX. Financial Situation • Legal Tender • Interest in Coin • Duties in Specie • Gold Notes at a Premium • Deposits • Ways and Means • Debt • Excise Loan • Income Tax • Paper Circulation • Effect of Paper Money • Rise in Price • Premium on Gold • Commerce • Government Expenses • Growth of Debt • Immense Means

XXXI. Thirty-Seventh Congress • Foreign Relations • Public Anxiety • Surrender of Commissioners • War Conduct • Executive Action • President's Message • Co-operation • Hunter's Order • Border State Delegation • Kentucky Legislature • President's Letter • His Position • Western Delegation • Emancipation Action of Congress • No more Slave Territory • District of Columbia • Co-operation Resolution • Military not to Surrender Fugitives • Troops Authorized • Conscription • Work of the Thirty-Seventh Congress

XXXII. Expedition of General Butler • New Orleans • Its Defences • Passage of the Forts by Farragut • Capture of City • Butler's Administration • Baton Rouge • Vicksburg • Ram Arkansas • Her Destruction

XXXIII. Privateers • Confederate Navy • Oreto: Her Operations • The Alabama: Her Movements • Diplomatic Correspondence • Captures • Hatteras Captured

XXXIV. General Pope's Army • Its Condition • McClellan's Army • Enemy Cross the Potomac • McClellan in Command • Halleck refuses Troops • South Mountain • Harper's Ferry • Antietam • Hooker • Sumner • Burnside • Retreat of Enemy • Advance of Army • McClellan superseded

XXXV. Burnside in Command • Change of Plan • Pontoons Delayed • Plans of Crossing • Two Attacks • Franklin's Movements • Seizure of Fredericksburg • Sumner • Terrible Slaughter • Repulse on the Right • Inaction • Withdrawal of Army • End of Campaign • Intrigues • Order No. 8 • Burnside Relieved

XXXVI. Situation in Kentucky • Bragg's Invasion • Mumfordsville • Buell's Advance • Perrysville • Retreat of Enemy • Features of Campaign

XXXVII. Cumberland Gap • Morgan's Escape • Iuka • Price Retreats • Corinth • Repulse of the Enemy • Vicksburg Expedition • Reorganization of Ohio Army by Rosecrans • His Advance • Battle of Stone River • Defeat of Enemy

XXXVIII. Turn of the Tide of War • New Combinations • Vicksburg • Sherman's Attack • Arkansas Post • Renewal of Attempt upon Vicksburg • Passage of Batteries by the Fleet • Flanking March of Grant

XXXIX. Flank Movement against Vicksburg • Battles of Raymond, Jackson, and Champion Hills • Investment of the City • Obstinate Defence • Surrender • Chronology of Events • Grierson's Raid

XL. Expedition of General Banks • Investment of Port Hudson • Unsuccessful Assaults • Brashear City • Capitulation of Port Hudson • Chronology of Events

XLI. New Movement against Richmond • Lee's Flank Turned • Battle of Chancellorsville • Retreat of looker • Operations by Sedgwick

XLII. Second Invasion of Maryland • Defeat of Milroy at Winchester • Meade appointed to command the Army of the Potomac • Battle of Gettysburg • Retreat of Lee

XLIII. Lee's Retreat from Gettysburg • Peace Mission • Conscription • Meade Re-enforced • Draft Riots • Lee crosses the Rapidan • His Advance and Subsequent Retreat

XLIV. Meade's Advance across the Rapidan • Recrosses • Winter-Quarters • Draft for 300,000 Men • Reconnaissance • Kilpatrick's Raid upon Richmond • Death of Dahlgren

XLV. Creation of the Office of Lieutenant-General • General Grant Appointed • Army Reorganization • Draft for 200,000 Men • General Grant assumes Command in Chief. Powers of the Lieutenant-General • Country between Washington and Richmond • Rule of Advance • Rebel Position

XLVI. Army in Tennessee • Results of Murfreesboro • Operations in Tennessee • Minor Expeditions • Advance of Rosecrans • Retreat of Bragg • Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee • Occupation of Knoxville • Evacuation of Chattanooga • Concentration of the Enemy • Battle of Chickamauga • Two Generals • Results of the Battle

XLVII. Inaction of Brag • His Position • His Indecision • Rosecrans Recruiting • Storms • Hooker Arrives • Grant Ordered up • He Supersedes Roscrans • Thomas in Command of Department • Position of the Army • Movement to open River • Defeat of the Enemy • Sheridan's March • Combat • Change of Route • Burnside's Position • Longstreet Detached from Bragg • Siege of Knoxville • Burnside Hard Pressed • Bragg Weakened • Grant Attacks • Movement Successful • Sherman Relieves Burnside • Retreat of Longstreet

XLVIII. Operations against Charleston • Arrival of Monitors • Montank • Attack by the Enemy • Iron Clad Attack on Sumter • Capture of the Atlanta • General Gillmore in Command • Assault on Fort Wagner • Bombardment of Fort Sumter • Siege and Reduction of Fort Wagner • Occupation of Morris Island

XLIX. Advance on Richmond • Crossing of the Rapidan • Routes of Corps • Enemy Attempts Flanking Movement • Meade's Attack • Repulse of Griffin • Hancock Arrives • Concentration of Army • Burnside ordered Forward • New Dispositions • Advance of Hancock on the 6th • Arrival of Longstreet • Fall of Wadsworth • Longstreet Wounded • Attack on the Union Right • Results of the Two Days' Fighting

L. Movement upon Spottsylvania • Enemy on Alert • Attack of May 10th • Death of Sedgwick • Position of Troops • Grant "to Fight it out on that Line" • Assault by the Second Corps on May 12th • Large Captures of Prisoners and Guns • Results of Struggle • Sheridan's Cavalry Raid • Death of General Stuart • Battle at Meadow Bridge • Sheridan at James River

LI. Retrograde Movement of Enemy • Bad Condition of Roads • Union Movement to the Left • Relative Position of Armies • Re-enforcements • Irruption on Rear Repulsed • Grant Crossing the North Anna • Impregnable Position of the Enemy • North Anna Re-crossed, Movement to Left continued

LII. Original Plan of Campaign • Butler's Expedition up the James • Movement on Petersburg • Fort Darling • Repulse of the Union Forces • Attack by Beauregard • Beauregard Re-enforces Lee • Smith sent to Support Grant

LIII. Position of Grant's Army • Warren's Advance • Further Development of the Union Left Wing • Severe Battles around Cold Harbor • New Flank Movement determined • Crossing of the James and Junction with Butler • Results of Campaign

LIV. Advance on Petersburg • Position of City • Assault and Capture of Earthworks and Guns • Assault of Saturday, June 15th • Repulse • Aspect of Campaign

LV. Relative Strength of Armies • Grant Moves against Railroad Connections of Richmond. Combat of June 2lst • Repulsed the 23d • Sheridan's Expedition • Movement of Wilson and Kautz on the Danville Road • 500 Thousand Men called out • Explosion of the Mine in Front of Petersburg • Failure of Assault

LVI. Sigel's Movement in Valley • Hunter Supersedes Sigel, and Defeats the Rebels near Staunton • Occupation of Lexington • Lynchburg • Early sent to the Valley • Retreat of Hunter through Western Virginia • Advance of Early down the Valley and Invasion of Maryland • Defeat of Wallace • Washington Threatened • Arrival of Sixth Corps and Retreat of Early • Various Encounters in the Valley • Hunter Superseded by Sheridan

LVII. Dutch Gap Canal • Movement North of the James • Expedition of the Fifth Corps to the Welden Road • Attack by Hill • Severe Fighting near Ream's Station • Losses • Repulse of the Enemy • Subsequent Repulse of Hancock • Renewal of Movement North of the James and Capture of Fort Harrison • Further Operation on the Weldon Railroad

LVIII. Operations in Tennessee • Sherman's Raid Through Mississippi • Failure of Smith's Co-operative Movement • Invasion of Western Tennessee and Kentucky by Forrest • Massacre at Fort Pillow

LIX. Cooperative Movement on Atlanta • Size and Organization of Union and Rebel Armies • Commencement of Campaign by Sherman • Evacuation of Dalton by Johnston • Battle of Resaca and Retreat of Rebels • Operations at Dallas and Kenesaw • Rebels Flanked and Driven Across the Chattahoochee

LX. New Position of Enemy • Johnston again Turned and Pushed Back upon Atlanta • Rosseau's Raid • Hood Succeeds Johnston • Investment of Atlanta • Battles of July 20th and 22d • Death of McPherson • Cavalry Raids of Stoneman and McCook • Defeat and Capture of Stoneman • Battle of July 25th • Prolongation of the Union Right Wing • Changes of Commanders in Sherman's Army

LXI. Siege of Atlanta • Position of the City • Topography • Enemy's Strength • Sherman Moves to the Right • Wheeler's Raid • Kilpatrick's Raid • Grand Flank Movement of Army on Macon Railroad • Defeat of Enemy at Jonesboro' • Evacuation of Atlanta • Congratulatory Order of General Sherman • Truce • Depopulation of Atlanta • Correspondence between Sherman and Hood • Results of Campaign

LXII. Gulf Department • Sabine Pass Expedition • McPherson Moves from Vicksburg • Expedition to Rio Grande and Occupation of Brownsville • Banks's Red River Expedition • Capture of Fort DeRussey • Occupation of Alexandria • Battle of Mansfield • Retreat of the Army • Repulse of Enemy at Pleasant Hill • Operations of Fleet • Dam at Alexandria • Arrival of Army and Fleet in the Mississippi • Co-operative Movement of Steele in Arkansas • Causes of its Failure

LXIII. War in Missouri • Execution of Guerrillas • Marmaduke's Movements • Helena • Successful Campaign of General Steele in Arkansas • Capture of Little Rock • General Gantt • Sacking of Lawrence by Quantrell • Price's Last Invasion of Missouri • His Disastrous Defeat and Retreat into Arkansas

LXIV. Mobile • Its Defences • Concentration of Troops • Combined Operations • Landing on Dauphine Island • Order of Battle • Tecumseh Blown up • Tennessee Attacks • Desperate Battle • Mode of Attack • Fort Powell Blown up • Fort Gaines Surrenders • Siege of Fort Morgan. Surrender • Minor Expeditions

LXV. Expedition to Florida • Occupation of Jacksonville • Advance of General Seymour • Battle of Olustee, and Retreat of Union Army • Demonstration against Newbern • Capture of Plymouth • The Albemarle • Her Fight with Union Gunboats • Her Destruction • Rebel privateers • Combat between the Kearsarge and Alabama • Capture of the Florida and Georgia

LXVI. Depopulation of Atlanta • Correspondence between General Sherman and Mayor Calhoun • Flank Movement by Hood • Attack on Allatoona • Hood Severs Sherman's Communications • Marches into Alabama and Enters Tennessee • Sherman's New Plan of Campaign • Invasion of Tennessee • Battle of Franklin • Affair at Murfreesboro • Battles of December 15th and 16th before Nashville • Retreat of Hood into Alabama • Close of the Campaign

LXVII. Sheridan in Command of Middle Military Division • Maneuvering in the Valley • Object of Movements • Battles of Opequan Creek and Fisher's Hill • Route and Retreat of the Rebels • Their New Position at Brown's Gap • Movements of Sheridan

LXVIII. Position of Armies • Early Advances • Battle of Cedar Creek • Opportune Arrival of Sheridan • Disastrous Defeat of the Enemy • Sheridan's Troops Leave for the Potomac • Devastation

LXIX. Political Parties • Elections of 1862 • Organization and Strength of the Peace Party • Banishment of Vallandigham • Ohio Election • Political Reaction in Favor of Administration • 38th Congress • President's Plan of Reconstruction • Amendment to Constitution • Presidential Canvass of 1864 • Conventions at Baltimore and Chicago • Nomination of Lincoln and McClellan • Result of the Election • Peace Negotiations • Colonel Jaques • The Niagara Falls Correspondence

LXX. Finances of 1863 • Revenue • Sales of Bonds • Effect of Paper Money • Policy of Mr. Chase • Gold Law and its Effects • Mr. Chase Resigns • Finances of 1864 • Sales of Bonds in Europe • Statement of Debt • National Banks • Prices of Gold

LXXI. Sherman Proposes to Cross Georgia • Composition of Army • Marching Orders • Combat at Griswoldville • Appeal to the People of Georgia • Milledgeville Reached • Army at Louisville • Combat with Wheeler • March to Savannah • Communicates with the Fleet • Fort McAllister • Evacuation of Savannah • Sherman's Dispatches • Wilmington Expedition • Fort Fisher • Powder-Ship • Bombardment • Failure • Return to Hampton Roads • Co-operation from Plymouth

LXXII. Affairs at Petersburg • Renewed Attempt to Flank the Rebel Right • Battle at Hatcher's Run • Fighting on North Side of the James • Review of Year • Importance of Sherman's Operations • Calls for Troops • Relative Strength of Armies • Second Attack on Fort Fisher • Capture of Fort and Garrison

LXXIII. Capture of Remaining Defences on Cape Fear River • Schofield's Order from Tennessee • Fort Anderson Taken • Occupation of Wilmington • Movement on Kingston • Goldsboro • Gill more before Charleston • Evacuation of City by Hardee • Flag Restored to Fort Sumter • Sheridan in the Valley • His Raid • Great Destruction of Rebel Property • Joins Meade

LXXIV. General Sherman at Savannah • Advance Northward • Pocotaligo • Salkehatchie • Movement on Columbia • Conflagration in Columbia and its Origin • Beauregard at Charlotte • Lee Placed in Chief Command of Rebel Armies • Johnston Reinstated • Fayetteville • Rebel Strength • Averysboro • Bentonville • Goldsboro • Junction of Three Union Armies • Objective of the Campaign Gained

LXXV. Grant's Preparations for a Final Movement • Rebel Attack on Fort Steadman • Disastrous Repulse • Object of Lee • Movement on the Left Commenced • Affair of Quaker Road • Heavy Fighting on Boydton Road • Decisive Battle of Five Forks • Rebel Left Turned • Assault on Petersburg • Evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond • Pursuit of Lee • His Surrender to Grant • End of Campaign

LXXVI. Raids in Kentucky and East Tennessee • Defeat and Death of Morgan • Successes of Stoneman and Bubridge • Destruction of Woks at Saltville • Stoneman's Last Raid • Capture of Salisbury • Negotiations between Sherman and Johnston • Agreement for Surrender by Johnston disavowed at Washington • Reasons Assigned • Final Surrender of Johnston • Wilson's Great Raid in Alabama and Georgia • Capture of Selma, Montgomery, and Macon • Exchanges of Prisoners • Cruel Treatment by Rebels of Union Prisoners • Horrors of Andersonville • Rebel Plots in Canada • St. Albans Raid • Execution of Beall and Kennedy • Attempts to Fire American Cities and Introduce Pestilence

LXXVII. Peace Negotiations at Fortress Monroe • Their Fruitless Issue • Second Inauguration of Lincoln • His Address • Rejoicings at Prospect of Peace • Assassination of Lincoln • Public Mourning • Funeral Procession • Character of Lincoln • Booth, the Murderer, Pursued and Shot • Trial and Execution of his Accomplices • Inauguration of Andrew Johnson as President • Amnesty Proclamation • Plan for Reconstruction • Pursuit and Capture of Davis • Capitulation of Generals Taylor and Kirby Smith • Termination of the War and Disbanding of the Armies • National Debt • Concluding Reflection


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