Chapter 34

The Confederate Government Organized--Fort Sumter--President Lincoln Calls for 75,000 Men--Command of the Union Forces Offered to Robert E. Lee--Lee Joins the Confederacy--Missouri Saved to the Union--Battle of Bull Run--Union Successes in the West--General Grant Captures Fort Donelson--"I Have No Terms But Unconditional Surrender"--The Monitor and Merrimac Fight--Its World-wide Effect--Grant Victorious at Shiloh --Union Naval Victory Near Memphis--That City Captured--General McClellan's Tactics--He Retreats from Victory at Malvern Hill--Second Bull Run Defeat--Great Battle of Antietam--Lee Repulsed, but Not Pursued--McClellan Superseded by Burnside--Union Defeat at Fredericksburg --Union Victories in the West--Bragg Defeated by Rosecrans at Stone River--The Emancipation Proclamation, 287