New York
STURGIS & WALTON
COMPANY
1910
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Copyright, 1910
By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1910

[CONTENTS]

CHAPTER PAGE
Part I.—The Causes of the War
Introduction[3]
I.A Public, Not a Civil War[13]
II.The Growth of the National Idea[19]
III.The "Irrepressible Conflict"[37]
IV.The Annexation of Texas[58]
V.The Compromise of 1850[71]
VI.Uncle Tom's Cabin[107]
VII.The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, The Kansas-Nebraska Bill and Squatter Sovereignty[112]
VIII.The Kansas War—The Dred Scott Decision—John Brown's Exploit at Harper's Ferry[122]
IX.The Election of 1860[138]
X.The Birth of War[147]
Part II.—The Conduct of the War
XI.The Reduction of Fort Sumter[177]
XII.The Attitude of the Border States[194]
XIII."Pepper Box" Strategy[203]
XIV.Manassas[215]
XV.The Paralysis of Victory[233]
XVI.The European Menace[249]
XVII.Border Operations[256]
XVIII.The Blockade—The Conquest of the Coast and the Neglect to Follow up the Advantage thus Gained[261]
XIX.The Era of Incapacity[268]
XX.The First Appearance of Grant[273]
XXI.The Situation Before Shiloh[282]
XXII.Between Manassas and Shiloh—The Situation in Virginia[293]
XXIII.Shiloh[302]
XXIV.New Madrid and Island Number 10[328]
XXV.Farragut at New Orleans[332]
XXVI.McClellan's Peninsular Advance[352]
XXVII.Jackson's Valley Campaign[363]
XXVIII.The Seven Days' Battles[397]
XXIX.The Second Manassas Campaign[414]
XXX.Lee's First Invasion of Maryland[423]

[PART I]
THE CAUSES OF THE WAR