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CAMPFIRE AND BATTLEFIELD.

Title: Campfire and Battlefield

An Illustrated History of the Campaigns and Conflicts of the Great Civil War

Author: Rossiter Johnson

Language: English

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Campfire and Battlefield


Campfire and Battlefield


Abraham Lincoln
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
(From a war-time photograph.)





CAMPFIRE AND BATTLEFIELD

Campfire and Battlefield
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE

CAMPAIGNS AND CONFLICTS

OF THE

GREAT CIVIL WAR

BY

ROSSITER JOHNSON
JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, LL.D.
GEN. J. T. MORGAN
GEN. O. O. HOWARD
GEN. SELDEN CONNOR
HENRY W. B. HOWARD
GEN. JOHN B. GORDON

ART EDITORS

FRANK BEARD
GEORGE SPIEL



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NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY

BRYAN, TAYLOR & COMPANY,

61 EAST NINTH STREET


Darkened Battlefield


CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.
PRELIMINARY EVENTS.

CHAPTER II.
PREPARATION FOR CONFLICT.

CHAPTER III.
THE BEGINNING OF BLOODSHED.

CHAPTER IV.
BORDER STATES AND FOREIGN RELATIONS.

CHAPTER V.
ARMY ORGANIZATION NORTH AND SOUTH.

CHAPTER VI.
THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN.

CHAPTER VII.
EFFECTS OF THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN.

CHAPTER VIII.
THE FIRST UNION VICTORIES.

CHAPTER IX.
THE "MONITOR" AND THE "MERRIMAC."

CHAPTER X.
THE CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS.

CHAPTER XI.
THE CAMPAIGN OF SHILOH.

CHAPTER XII.
MINOR ENGAGEMENTS OF THE FIRST YEAR.

CHAPTER XIII.
THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN.

CHAPTER XIV.
POPE'S CAMPAIGN.

CHAPTER XV.
THE ANTIETAM CAMPAIGN.

CHAPTER XVI.
EMANCIPATION.

CHAPTER XVII.
BURNSIDE'S CAMPAIGN.

CHAPTER XVIII.
WAR IN THE WEST.

CHAPTER XIX.
MINOR EVENTS OF THE SECOND YEAR.

CHAPTER XX.
EMPLOYMENT OF COLORED SOLDIERS.

CHAPTER XXI.
CHANCELLORSVILLE.

CHAPTER XXII.
GETTYSBURG.

CHAPTER XXIII.
THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN.

CHAPTER XXIV.
THE DRAFT RIOTS.

CHAPTER XXV.
THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON.

CHAPTER XXVI.
THE CHATTANOOGA CAMPAIGN AND BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA.

CHAPTER XXVII.
THE BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA.

CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE BLACK CHAPTER.

CHAPTER XXIX.
THE SANITARY AND CHRISTIAN COMMISSIONS.

CHAPTER XXX.
MINOR EVENTS OF THE THIRD YEAR.

CHAPTER XXXI.
THE OVERLAND CAMPAIGN.

CHAPTER XXXII.
THE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS.

CHAPTER XXXIII.
PRELIMINARY OPERATIONS IN THE WEST.

CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN.

CHAPTER XXXV.
THE BATTLE OF MOBILE BAY.

CHAPTER XXXVI.
THE ADVANCE ON PETERSBURG.

CHAPTER XXXVII.
WASHINGTON IN DANGER.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
SHERIDAN IN THE SHENANDOAH.

CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

CHAPTER XL.
THE NATIONAL FINANCES.

CHAPTER XLI.
THE MARCH TO THE SEA.

CHAPTER XLII.
MINOR EVENTS OF THE FOURTH YEAR.

CHAPTER XLIII.
THE FINAL BATTLES.

CHAPTER XLIV.
PEACE.

INDEX.

OTHER ARTICLES

WAR SONGS.

THE FIRST UNITED STATES FLAG RAISED IN RICHMOND AFTER THE WAR.

HUMOROUS INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

WAR HUMOR IN THE SOUTH.

INDIVIDUAL HEROISM AND THRILLING INCIDENTS.

REMINISCENCES OF THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN.

THE MEASURE OF VALOR.

LAST DAYS OF THE CONFEDERACY.

CAMP LIFE.

SOUTHERN SPIES AND SCOUTS IN THE WAR.

NORTHERN SPIES AND SCOUTS IN THE WAR.

IMPORTANT HISTORY SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE GROUP OF SHERMAN AND HIS GENERALS.

PRISONS AND ESCAPES.

UNION AND CONFEDERATE RAIDS AND RAIDERS.

WOMAN'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE CAUSE.





Fort Sumter before the bombardment
BEFORE THE BOMBARDMENT.
Fort Sumter after reduction
IN 1865—AFTER ITS REDUCTION BY GENERAL GILLMORE.
FORT SUMTER.



DEFENCES OF WASHINGTON
DEFENCES OF WASHINGTON—HEAVY ARTILLERY.




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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