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Author Rhodes, James Ford, 1848-1927.

Title History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 / Edited, with an introd., by E. B. Long.

Publication Info. New York : Ungar [1961]

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  973.7 R476H    Check Shelf
Description 486 pages.
Series American classics
American classics.
Contents The great factor in destruction of slavery -- Theory of South Carolina -- Crittenden Compromise -- Southern Confederacy -- Lincoln's Inaugural Address -- Anderson and Fort Sumter -- 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 -- Congress -- Slavery the cause of the war -- FreĢmont -- McClellan -- Great Britain's action -- English sentiment -- Mason and Slidell -- English precedents -- Lincoln and Seward -- Surrender of Mason and Slidell -- Simon Cameron -- Edwin M. Stanton -- Fort Donelson -- Surrender of Donelson -- Ulysses S. Grant -- McClellan's dalliance -- Grant and Halleck -- Grant and Sherman surprised at Shiloh -- Battle of Shiloh -- Lincoln and Grant -- The bockade -- The Merrimac -- The Monitor -- Farragut ; Fox -- Farragut's capture of New Orleans -- McClellan's Peninsular Campaign -- Stonewall Jackson's campaign -- "The great scare" -- Battle of Fair Oaks -- Robert E. Lee -- Battle of Gaines's Mill -- McClellan's demoralization -- Lee and McClellan -- Lee and Jackson -- Seven Days' Battles -- Legal-Tender Act -- Lincoln's attitude to slavery -- Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation -- 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 -- Fall elections of 1862 -- Alarm in Cincinnati -- Buell and Morton -- McClellan's removal -- Unfortunate choice of Burnside -- Battle of Fredericksburg -- The Cabinet crisis -- Lincoln's sagacity -- Lincoln ; Chase -- Lincoln ; Seward -- Battle of Stone's River -- Action of Congress -- Popular feeling and action -- Hooker in Command -- Battle of Chancellorsville -- Effect of Chancellorsville
Subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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