CHAPTER X.

BATTLES OF LEESBURG, BELMONT, AND SHILOH. Rebel Cruelty to Prisoners—The Fratricide—Grant Defeated—Saved by Gunboats—Buell’s Advance—Railroad Disaster—The South Despondent—General Rosecrans—Secession will become Odious even in the South—Poem 282—296

A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO By Benjamin Brawley

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