HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

FROM THE EARLIEST DISCOVERY OF AMERICA TO THE PRESENT TIME

BY
E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS

CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF BROWN UNIVERSITY

With 650 Illustrations and Maps


VOLUME IV.

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1912

COPYRIGHT, 1894 AND 1903, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

CONTENTS

PERIOD IV
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
(Continued)
1860–1868

CHAPTER V. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
Three Great Lines of Campaign.—Confederate Posts inKentucky.—Surrender of Fort Henry.—Siege of FortDonelson.—Capture.—Kentucky Cleared of ArmedConfederates.—Pope Captures Island No. 10.—GunboatFight.—Memphis Ours.—Battle ofPittsburg—Landing.—Defeat and Victory.—Farragut and Butler toNew Orleans.—Battle.—Victory.—The Crescent City Won.—Onto Vicksburg.—Iuka.—Corinth.—Grant’s MasterlyStrategy.—Sherman’s Movements.—McClernand’s.—Gunboats passVicksburg.—Capture of Jackson, Miss.—Battle of Champion’sHill.—Siege of Vicksburg.—Famine within.—TheSurrender.

CHAPTER VI. THE WAR IN THE CENTRE
Bragg Invades Kentucky.—Buell Saves Louisville.—Battle ofPerryville.—Of Stone River.—Losses.—Chickamauga.—Thomasthe “Rock of Chickamauga.”—Grant to the Front.—Bragg’sMovements.—Chattanooga.—The “Battle above theClouds.”—Capture of Missionary Ridge.—Bragg’s Army BrokenUp.—Grant Lieutenant-General.—Plan of Campaign for1864-65.—Sherman’s Army.—Skirmishes.—KenesawMountain.—Johnston at Bay.—Hood in Command.—Assumes theOffensive.—Sherman in Atlanta.—Losses.—Hood to Alabama andTennessee.—The March to the Sea.—Living on theCountry.—Sherman at Savannah.—Hardee Evacuates.—A ChristmasGift.—The Blow to the Confederacy.—Thomas CrushesHood.—Sherman Marches North.—CharlestonFalls.—Columbia.—Johnston Routed at Bentonville.—ShermanMaster of the Carolinas.—Johnston Surrenders.

CHAPTER VII. THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGNS OF 1862–63
McClellan to Fortress Monroe.—Yorktown.—Williamsburg.—FairOaks.—Lee in Command.—McDowell Retained atFredericksburg.—Lee Assumes the Offensive.—Gaines’s Mill.—TheSeven Days’ Retreat.—Malvern Hill.—Union Army at Harrison’sLanding.—Discouragement.—McClellan Leaves thePeninsula.—Pope’s Advance on Richmond.—Retreat.—Jackson inhis Rear.—Second Battle of Bull Run.—PopeDefeated.—Chantilly.—McClellan again Commander.—Lee inMaryland.—South Mountain.—Antietam.—LeeEscapes.—McClellan Removed and Burnside inCommand.—Fredericksburg.—The Battle.—HookerGeneral-in-Chief.—Chancellorsville.—Flank Movement byJackson.—Battle of May 3d.—Lee in Pennsylvania.—Convergenceto Gettysburg.—First Day’s Battle.—SecondDay.—Third.—Pickett’s Charge.—Failure.—LeeEscapes.—Significance of this Battle.

CHAPTER VIII. COLLAPSE OF THE CONFEDERACY
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