CONTENTS

PART I THE CAUSES OF THE WAR

INTRODUCTION The Magnitude of the Confederate War

CHAPTER I A Public, not a Civil, War

CHAPTER II The Growth of the National Idea

CHAPTER III The "Irrepressible Conflict"

CHAPTER IV The Annexation of Texas

CHAPTER V The Compromise of 1850

CHAPTER VI Uncle Tom's Cabin

CHAPTER VII The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, The Kansas-Nebraska Bill and Squatter Sovereignty

CHAPTER VIII The Kansas War The Dred Scott Decision John Brown's Exploit at Harper's Ferry

CHAPTER IX The Election of 1860

CHAPTER X The Birth of War

BOOK II THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR

CHAPTER XI The Reduction of Fort Sumter

CHAPTER XII The Attitude of the Border States

CHAPTER XIII "Pepper Box" Strategy

CHAPTER XIV Manassas

CHAPTER XV The Paralysis of Victory

CHAPTER XVI The European Menace

CHAPTER XVII Border Operations

CHAPTER XVIII The Blockade The Conquest of the Coast and the

CHAPTER XIX The Era of Incapacity

CHAPTER XX The First Appearance of Grant

CHAPTER XXI The Situation Before Shiloh

CHAPTER XXII Between Manassas and Shiloh The Situation in Virginia

CHAPTER XXIII Shiloh

CHAPTER XXIV New Madrid and Island Number 10

CHAPTER XXV Farragut at New Orleans

CHAPTER XXVI McClellan's Peninsular Advance

CHAPTER XXVII Jackson's Valley Campaign

CHAPTER XXVIII The Seven Days' Battles

CHAPTER XXIX The Second Manassas Campaign

CHAPTER XXX Lee's First Invasion of Maryland

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Title: The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume I (of 2)

A Narrative and Critical History

Author: George Cary Eggleston

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THE HISTORY OF THE
CONFEDERATE
WAR

THE HISTORY OF THE
CONFEDERATE
WAR

ITS CAUSES AND ITS CONDUCT

A NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY

BY
GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON

Volume I

New York
STURGIS & WALTON
COMPANY
1910
All rights reserved

Copyright, 1910
By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1910