Campfire and battlefield

CAUSES OF THE WAR--SLAVERY, STATE RIGHTS, SECTIONAL FEELING--JOHN BROWN--ELECTION OF LINCOLN--SECESSION OF SOUTHERN STATES--"SHOOT HIM ON THE SPOT"--PENSACOLA--MAJOR ROBERT ANDE...

DEFENCELESS CONDITION OF WASHINGTON--SECESSION SYMPATHIZERS IN OFFICE--VOLUNTEERS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--COL. CHARLES P. STONE--PROTECTION OF PUBLIC OFFICES AND GUARDING O...

Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address was one of the ablest state papers recorded in American history. It argued the question of secession in all its aspects--the constitutional r...

GOVERNORS OF CERTAIN STATES REFUSE TROOPS--THE GOVERNOR OF MISSOURI DISLOYAL--EVENTS IN ST. LOUIS--LOYALTY OF GERMANS--BATTLE AT CARTHAGE--THE STRUGGLE FOR KENTUCKY, MARYLAND AN...

Although up to this time no important engagements between the troops had taken place, the war was actually begun. The Sumter affair had been the signal for both sides to throw a...

THE ADVANCE INTO VIRGINIA--FORTIFICATIONS ON THE POTOMAC--POPULAR DEMAND FOR OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS--CONFEDERATES FORTIFY MANASSAS JUNCTION--THEIR LINE OF DEFENCE AT BULL RUN--McD...

PARALYSIS OF THE UNION CAUSE--FORTIFYING THE APPROACHES TO THE CAPITAL--WHY THE CONFEDERATES DID NOT ATTEMPT THE CAPTURE OF WASHINGTON--EFFECT OF UNION DEFEAT IN ENGLAND AND FRA...

FEDERAL NAVY--BLOCKADE-RUNNING--BALLS, POWDER, AND EQUIPMENTS BROUGHT FROM ENGLAND FOR CONFEDERATES--THE FIRST HATTERAS EXPEDITION--CAPTURE OF FORT HATTERAS AND FORT CLARK--CAPT...

THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE "MONITOR" AND "MERRIMAC"--EFFECT UPON NAVAL ARMAMENTS OF THE WORLD--IDEA OF REVOLVING TOWER NOT ORIGINAL WITH ERICSSON--DESTRUCTION OF THE "CUMBERLAND"--...

NEW ORLEANS THE LARGEST SOUTHERN CITY--FORTS ON THE MISSISSIPPI--CAPT. DAVID G. FARRAGUT CHOSEN COMMANDER--GEN. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER IN COMMAND OF LAND FORCES--TERRIFIC BOMBARDMEN...

OPERATIONS AT ISLAND NO. 10 AND NEW MADRID--NAVAL BATTLE ON THE MISSISSIPPI--THE BLOODIEST BATTLE WEST OF THE ALLEGHANIES--COMMENCEMENT OF BATTLE OF SHILOH, SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 186...

LARGE NUMBER OF BATTLES FOUGHT DURING THE WAR--DISASTER AT BALL'S BLUFF ON THE POTOMAC--SMALL ENGAGEMENTS AT EDWARDS FERRY, VA.--BATTLES AT FALLING WATERS AND BUNKER HILL, VA.--...

COMMAND GIVEN TO McCLELLAN--HIS PLANS--APPOINTMENT OF SECRETARY STANTON--ON THE PENINSULA--BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG--ON THE CHICKAHOMINY--THE BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS--EFFECT OF THE SW...

FORMATION OF THE ARMY OF VIRGINIA--HALLECK MADE GENERAL-IN-CHIEF--McCLELLAN LEAVES THE PENINSULA--BATTLE OF CEDAR MOUNTAIN--POPE AND LEE MANOEUVRE--BATTLE OF GROVETON--THE SECON...

CONFEDERATE ADVANCE INTO MARYLAND--THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC SENT AGAINST THEM--LEE'S PLANS LEARNED FROM A LOST DESPATCH--CAPTURE OF HARPER'S FERRY--BATTLE OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN--BATT...

LINCOLN'S ATTITUDE TOWARD SLAVERY--McCLELLAN'S ATTITUDE--THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S ATTITUDE--PREDICTIONS BY THE POETS--SLAVES DECLARED CONTRABAND--ACTION OF FRÉMONT--HUNTER'S PROCL...

McCLELLAN'S INACTION--VISIT AND LETTERS OF LINCOLN TO HIM--SUPERSEDED BY BURNSIDE--THE POSITION AT FREDERICKSBURG--ATTACK UPON THE HEIGHTS--THE RESULT--GENERAL BURNSIDE'S LACK O...

CONSCRIPTION ACT PASSED BY CONFEDERATE CONGRESS--GENERAL BRAGGS'S OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND EAST TENNESSEE--BATTLE OF PERRYVILLE--GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE CONFEDERATE CHARGE-...

LARGE ARMIES IN THE FIELD--BOMBARDMENT AND CAPTURE OF FORT PULASKI--BATTLE OF BLUE'S GAP, VA.--MARCHING OVER THE SNOW--OPERATIONS IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY--BATTLES OF WINCHESTER...

ENLISTMENT OF COLORED SOLDIERS DENOUNCED IN THE SOUTH--NEGRO ASSISTANTS IN CONFEDERATE ARMIES--CONFEDERATE THREATS AGAINST NEGRO SOLDIERS AND THOSE WHO LED THEM--DEMOCRATIC JOUR...

"FIGHTING JOE HOOKER"--LETTER FROM PRESIDENT LINCOLN--RESTORING THE DISCIPLINE OF THE ARMY--CAPTURING THE HEIGHTS OF FREDERICKSBURG--SKILLFUL MOVEMENT BY "STONEWALL" JACKSON--HE...

INVASION OF THE NORTH DETERMINED ON--CAVALRY SKIRMISH AT FLEETWOOD, WHICH MARKS A TURNING POINT IN THAT SERVICE--HOOKER'S PLANS--HE ASKS TO BE RELIEVED--MEADE IN COMMAND--BATTLE...

OPERATIONS ON THE MISSISSIPPI--GRANT PLACED IN COMMAND--PLANS THE CAMPAIGN--LOSS AT HOLLY SPRINGS--SHERMAN AND PORTER DESCEND THE RIVER--SHERMAN'S ATTEMPT ON THE YAZOO--AT HAINE...

The second attempt at invasion by Lee had ended at Gettysburg even more disastrously than the first, and he returned to Virginia at the head of hardly more than one-half of the...

BLOCKADE OF THE HARBOR--DU PONT'S ATTACK--DEFEAT--CAPTURE OF THE "ATLANTA"--GILLMORE'S SIEGE--ASSAULT ON FORT WAGNER--ITS CAPTURE--THE SWAMP ANGEL--BOMBARDMENT OF CHARLESTON--AC...

ROSECRANS AND BRAGG--FIGHT AT DOVER--AT FRANKLIN--AT MILTON--MORGAN'S RAID IN OHIO--MANOEUVRING FOR CHATTANOOGA--BATTLE AT CHICKAMAUGA--NUMBER OF MEN ENGAGED ON EACH SIDE--OPERA...

GRANT'S ARRIVAL AT CHATTANOOGA--GENERAL ROSECRANS'S INACTION--OPENING A NEW LINE OF SUPPLY--DESPERATE FIGHTING UNDER GENERAL SHERMAN--PAROLED PRISONERS FORCED INTO THE CONFEDERA...

PERSECUTIONS OF UNION MEN--THE BLACK FLAG--THE GUERILLAS--SECESSION FROM SECESSION--RIOT IN CONCORD, N. H.--MASSACRE AT FORT PILLOW--CARE OF PRISONERS--ANDERSONVILLE--OTHER PRIS...

WOMEN IN THE WAR--SANITARY COMMISSION FORMED--THE PUBLIC IDEA ABOUT IT--WORK OF THE COMMISSION--SANITARY FAIRS--THE CHRISTIAN COMMISSION--VOLUNTARY NURSES--THE VAST AMOUNT OF WO...

BANDS OF GUERILLAS IN VIRGINIA AND THE EAST--UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO CAPTURE MOSBY--IMPORTANT ACTION AT WAPPING HEIGHTS--NUMEROUS ENGAGEMENTS IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY AND ON TH...

GRANT MADE LIEUTENANT-GENERAL WITH COMMAND OF ALL THE ARMIES--HEADQUARTERS WITH THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC--PLAN OF THE CAMPAIGN--POSITION OF THE ARMIES--RELATIVE NUMBERS--A GREAT...

THE "ALABAMA" SUNK BY THE "KEARSARGE"--THE "SUMTER" AND OTHER CRUISERS--PROTEST OF OUR GOVERNMENT TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT--SECRETARY SEWARD'S DESPATCHES--PRIVATEERING--WHY ENG...

GENERAL SHERMAN CAPTURES MERIDIAN, MISS.--DESTRUCTION OF RAILROADS AND SUPPLIES--GENERAL BANKS ATTEMPTS TO CAPTURE SHREVEPORT, LA.--BATTLE OF SABINE CROSS-ROADS--TEMPORARY ROUT...

SHERMAN AND JOHNSTON--SHERMAN BEGINS THE CAMPAIGN--JOHNSTON ABANDONS RESACA--FIGHTING AT NEW HOPE CHURCH--THE POSITION AT PINE MOUNTAIN--JOHNSTON AT KENESAW--FALL OF GENERAL POL...

DEFENCES--ADMIRAL FARRAGUT'S PREPARATIONS--PASSING THE FORTS--LOSS OF THE "TECUMSEH"--FIGHT WITH THE RAM "TENNESSEE"--COST OF THE VICTORY--CRAVEN'S CHIVALRY--OFFICIAL REPORT OF...

ADVANCE ON PETERSBURG--GENERAL BUTLER'S MOVEMENT--BEAUREGARD'S COUNTER-MOVEMENT--ADVANCE FORCES UNDER GENERAL SMITH--HANCOCK'S ATTACK--CUTTING OFF THE RAILROADS--THE FIGHT AT WE...

CONFEDERATE FORCES THREATEN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL--GENERAL GRANT SENDS TROOPS TO ITS DEFENCE--BATTERIES AND INTRENCHMENTS AROUND WASHINGTON--CONFEDERATE FORCES IN SIGHT OF THE DO...

IMPORTANCE OF THE VALLEY--HUNTER ASKS TO BE RELIEVED--SHERIDAN'S CAREER--GRANT'S INSTRUCTIONS--INTERFERENCE AT WASHINGTON--LINCOLN GIVES GRANT A HINT--SHERIDAN MARCHES ON WINCHE...

EFFORTS TOWARD PEACE--THE FRÉMONT CONVENTION--THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION--NOMINATION OF LINCOLN AND JOHNSON--THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION--ITS DENUNCIATION OF THE WAR--NOMINATION OF...

AN EMPTY TREASURY--BORROWING MONEY AT TWELVE PER CENT.--SALMON P. CHASE MADE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY--THE DIRECT-TAX BILL--ISSUE OF DEMAND NOTES--CHASE'S COURAGE--THE BANKS FO...

SHERMAN MAKES ATLANTA A MILITARY DEPOT--HIS PECULIAR POSITION--DISAFFECTION IN THE CONFEDERACY--HOOD ATTACKS THE COMMUNICATIONS--DEFENCE OF ALLATOONA--THOMAS ORGANIZES AN ARMY--...

DESPERATE CONDITION OF THE CONFEDERACY--THE EXPORTATION OF COTTON, TOBACCO, AND SUGAR PROHIBITED--THE THREATENED SECESSION OF NORTH CAROLINA FROM THE CONFEDERACY--SWEEPING CONSC...

SHERMAN MARCHES THROUGH THE CAROLINAS--JOHNSTON RESTORED TO COMMAND--COLUMBIA BURNED--CHARLESTON EVACUATED--CAPTURE OF FORT FISHER--BATTLE OF AVERYSBORO--BATTLE OF BENTONVILLE--...

THE WAR GOVERNORS--CIVILIAN PATRIOTS--THE SUDDEN FALL OF THE CONFEDERACY--CAPTURE OF MR. DAVIS--CHARACTER OF THE INSURRECTION--MAGNANIMITY OF THE VICTORS--THE ASSASSINATION CONS...