CHAPTER VI.

THE OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN IN TENNESSEE.

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Capture of Fort Henry. — Commodore Foote's Account of the Fight. His
Care for the Wounded. - His Preaching on Sunday. - Affairs in Missis-
sippi. Capture of Fort Donelson. - - Movement of the Troops. The
Surrender. The Appearance of the Rebels. The Town of Dover. —
Scenes in the Rebel Lines. The formal Surrender of the Fort.
pearance of Buckner and Grant. Rebel Officers on the Rampage.
Commodore Foote's Intentions. His Plans frustrated by Halleck.
Nullification of Order No. 3.- Occupation of Columbus. - - The Southern
Muse. Bombardment of Island No. 10. Colonel Bissell's Canal.
Passage of Transports to New Madrid.

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Running past the Batteries.

General Pope's Operations. Capture of Rebels. - Surrender of Island

No. 10

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CHAPTER VII.

PITTSBURG LANDING, FORT PILLOW, AND MEMPHIS.

The Opposing Forces. - The Battle-Field. - The Poor Whites of the South.

Davis. Captain Maynadier. - A Trap for the Rebels.. - Movement of

the Rams. Fire of the Rebel Batteries. - Evacuation of Fort Pillow. -

Battle of Manassas. Colonel Broadhead. Confidence of the Rebels. -

Uprising in Pennsylvania. - Surrender of Harper's Ferry. - Escape of

the Union Cavalry. - Negro Teamsters. - Excitement of the Citizens. -

Hagerstown. Antietam. Visit to the Right Wing.- Poffenberg's

House. Sumner's Movement. The Corn-Field.—Burnside's Attack.

-The Fight at the Bridge.

The Opposing Forces. - Bragg's Advance. - Capture of Frankfort. — The
Rebels in Lexington. Inauguration of Governor Harris. — Bragg's Re-
treat from Frankfort. - Battle of Perryville. - President's Proclamation.

- The Kentucky Policy. General Gillmore's Order No. 5. Twenty-

Second Wisconsin and Colonel Utley. Judge Robertson and his Boy

Jo. — The Kentucky Policy reversed.

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CHAPTER X.

FROM HARPER'S FERRY TO FREDERICKSBURG.

- Removal of McClellan. - Burnside's Plans. Army Cor-

Gold Speculators. Expectations of the People

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Hall's Brigade. Rebel Sharpshooters. Crossing the River. Seventh

Michigan.

mer-Boy.

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Night Scene. The Drum-
His Funeral Obsequies. — Lee's
Burnside's Orders to Franklin. —

- Yankees in Fredericksburg..

Rev. Arthur B. Fuller.

Army. Positions of the Troops.

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Franklin's Despatches. Meade's Attack. — Jackson's Line broken.

Franklin's Account.. Wounded Soldiers. - Attack on the Right.

Eleventh New Hampshire.

- Recrossing the River

General Hooker in Command. - Reorganization of the Army. Hooker's

Plan. Movement of the Troops. First and Sixth Corps. Lee

puzzled. Hooker in Position. - Lee's Movement. Jackson's March.

Howard's Position. Sickles's Advance. - Jackson's Attack. The

Eleventh Corps. - Sickles's Return. - Death of Jackson. The Battle

of Sunday. Best's Artillery. Stewart's Attack. The Second Corps.

Hooker's last Position. Second Battle of Fredericksburg. - Sedg-

wick's Attack. Maryee's Hill. Barksdale's Retreat. - Battle of Sa-

lem Church..Lost Opportunity

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CHAPTER XIV.

CAVALRY OPERATIONS.

Stoneman's Preparations. Crossing the Rapidan.

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His Escape.

ginia. — Kilpatrick's Audacity. — Shelling Richmond. ·

Stoneman's Return

CHAPTER XV.

THE ATLANTIC COAST.

Port Royal. Sunday Services. Rev. Mr. Murchison.

Plantations. Sancho's Address.

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Visit to the

Negro Music..

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Mitchelville.

Sojourner Truth. - Enlistment of Negro Troops. Colonel Higginson.

Antipathy of White Soldiers.. - First South Carolina Regiment.

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CHAPTER XVI.

THE IRON-CLADS IN ACTION.

Destruction of the Nashville. — Captain Worden. - Attack on Fort McAl-

lister. First Bombardment of Sumter. Visit to the Fleet. - Captain

Rodgers. Damage to the Fort

General Lee's Movements. Hooker on the Watch. - Bedlam in Pennsyl-

vania. — Harrisburg. — Baltimore. — Colored Population. — Resignation

of General Hooker. - General Meade. - Feelings of the Soldiers.-

Advance to Gettysburg. — Organization of the Army. Patriotism of

the People. Bread for the Soldiers. Ride to Gettysburg. — Geo-

graphical Features of the Place.

General Reynolds's Position. Beginning of the Fight. — General How-
ard's Account. Weidreick's Battery. — General Slocum at Two Tav-
erns. Howard's Messages.. General Hancock's Arrival. Color-

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Bearers of the Nineteenth Indiana. Arrival of the Third Corps. —

- The Cemetery.-Major

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SECOND DAY.-General Meade on the Field.

Howard. Ride along the Lines. Stannard's Brigade. Meade's

Head-Quarters. - Position of the Second Corps.

ulars.

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The Third Corps.

Confidence of the

Half past Three. —

The Attack. Resistance of the Third Corps.- McGilvery's Batteries.

The Ninth Massachusetts Battery. - Barnes's Division.

- The Reg-

Resistance of the Pennsylvania Reserves. Hood's Advance.

O Colonel Chamberlain's Position. - Slocum's Movement. - Double-

day and Williams. - Men of Vermont. - Fourteenth Maine. Louis-

iana Tigers. THIRD DAY.

Rebel

The Morning Cannonade.

Prisoners.

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- Fight on Culp's Hill. Cavalry Operations. Lee's Prep-

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arations for the last Attack. - - Position of the Troops. Scene at Meade's

Head-Quarters. - The Cannonade. - Howard's Batteries. Hancock

wounded. The Vermont Regiments.

Scenes along the Lines. In the Rebel Lines. — Midnight. — After the

Battle. Lee's Retreat. Meade's Movements. Lee at Williamsport.

Opening of the Campaign. — Organization of the Army. — Grant's Plan.

The Ninth Corps. - President Lincoln reviewing the Colored Troops.

-The Army in Motion.. - Across the Rapidan. — Grant and Meade in

Council. The Wilderness. - Position of the Army. First Day's

Fight. Arrival of the Ninth Corps. - Second Day. - Movement to

Spottsylvania. Sheridan's Fight. Todd's Tavern. Warren en-

gaged. Battle of Spottsylvania. Song of the Wounded. The

Vermont Brigade. - Death of General Rice. - Attack of the Second

Corps. A Day in Fredericksburg. — Sanitary and Christian Commis-

sions. - Getting Straw for the Hospitals. - Movement to the North Anna.

Battle of Jericho Bridge. A Night in a Cabin. - Movement to

Hanover. - Battle of Bethesda Church. - General Smith's Advance to

Cold Harbor. Sheridan's Movement. - Position of the two Armies.

First Battle of Cold Harbor. - Hospital Scene. Second Battle.

McClellan at Cold Harbor and the Campaign of '62.

Grant's Opera-

tions. Caroline County. The Planters and their Property. The

Day of Jubilee. - Breaking up of Society.

Comments of the Rebel Newspapers.

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Opinions of the Soldiers.

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sion of Plans. - · General Hunter's Advance to Lynchburg.

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Sheridan's

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Raid. Butler and Gillmore. — Movement to James River. - Gillmore's
Failure. Grant's Instructions to Smith. Lee surprised. — General
Hinks's Division of Colored Troops. Their First Engagement. -—
Smith's Advance. - First Battle in Front of Petersburg. Capture of
Rebel Intrenchments. - General Terry's Movement. Lost Opportuni-
ties. Sentiments of the People. - President Lincoln. — Heroism of the
Colored Soldiers. · -Arrival of the Ninth Corps. Second Battle in
Front of Petersburg. — General Potter's Division. - Fifty-Seventh Mas-
sachusetts. Edward M. Schneider. — Third Battle in Front of Peters-
burg. Barbarism of Slavery. - Prejudice against Colored Troops.
The Christian Commission. - Hardships of the Campaign. - Religion

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CHAPTER XXI.

SIEGE OPERATIONS.

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Lieutenant-Colonel Pleasants. His Plan for a Mine to destroy the Works
before Petersburg. Difficulties he encountered in constructing it.
Battle at Deep Bottom. Completion of the Mine. Preparations for
springing it. Fuse goes out. - Delay. — Relighted. — The Explosion.
- Consternation of the Rebels. -Confusion of Union Troops. - Rebels
return to their Guns.
Terrible Slaughter in the Crater. Reasons for
the Failure. The Rebel Press. - The Fortunes of the Confederacy.

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THIRD INVASION OF MARYLAND.

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General Situation of Affairs. Early's Movement down the Valley. -

Breckenridge sent to reinforce him. — The Sixth Corps. — Excitement

in Washington. Early's Force. - Massachusetts Sixteenth Regiment.

- Arrival of Nineteenth Corps.

restored. Battle of Monocacy.

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Review of Sherman's Campaign. -Jeff Davis's dislike of Johnston.—

Appointment of Hood. Davis's Speech to Hood's Army. Sher-

man contemplates a Movement to Savannah. - Grant authorizes it. —

Organization of Sherman's Army.- Comments of Rebel Press on his

March to the Sea. — Complaints of Sherman's Inhumanity. — He is

compared to Attila. His Vindication of Himself. The Bummers.

Their Humanity to Union Refugees

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