History of the Civil War, 1861-1865

HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 James Ford Rhodes Chapter I The Great Factor in Destruction of Slavery; Theory of South Carolina; Crittenden Compromise; Southern Confederacy; Lincoln’s Inaugural Address; 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; Ulysses S. Grant; McClellan’s Dalliance; Grant and Halleck; Grant and Sherman Surprised at Shiloh; Battle of Shiloh; The Merrimac; McClellan’s Peninsular Campaign; Stonewall Jackson’s Campaign; “The Great Scare”; Battle of Fair Oaks; Robert E. Lee; Battle of Gaines’s Mill; Seven Days’ Battles Chapter IV Legal-Tender Act; 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; Battle of Fredericksburg; Battle of Stone’s River; Battle of Chancellorsville; Effect of Chancellorsville Chapter VI Lee’s Invasion of Pennsylvania; Battle of Gettysburg; Pickett’s Charge; Lee — Meade; Vicksburg Campaign; Grant; Surrender of Vicksburg Chapter VII English Mediation Proposed; Gladstone; Charles Francis Adams; Earl Russell; The Emperor of the French; Chapter VIII Battle of Chickamauga; Battle of Chattanooga; Sherman — Thomas — Sheridan Chapter IX Grant’s Wilderness Campaign; Battle of Cold Harbor; Chattanooga — Atlanta Campaign; Chapter X Lincoln — Grant; Johnston — Hood; Battle of Mobile Bay; Capture of Atlanta; Sheridan Chapter XI Life at the North; —Copperheads; Seymour — Vallandigham; The Northern Governors; Stanton — Lincoln Chapter XII The Age of Iron; Davis — Lincoln Chapter XIII Sherman —Savannah Taken; Battle of Nashville; Thirteenth Amendment; Lee — Jefferson Davis; Chapter XIV Sherman’s March Northward; Evacuation of Richmond; General Lee’s Surrender; Assassination of Lincoln; The End of the War