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| First Battle of Bull Run | [9] |
| Battle of Shiloh | [14] |
| Battle of Fair Oaks and Seven Pines | [19] |
| The Seven Days' Battles before Richmond | [25] |
| Battle of Cedar Mountain | [36] |
| Second Battle of Bull Run | [40] |
| Battle of Antietam | [46] |
| Battle of Murfreesboro | [56] |
| Battle of Fredericksburg | [62] |
| Battle of Chancellorsville | [71] |
| Siege of Vicksburg | [79] |
| Battle of Gettysburg | [86] |
| Battle of Chickamauga | [104] |
| Battle of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge | [109] |
| Battle of the Wilderness | [114] |
| Battle of Spottsylvania Court House | [120] |
| Battle of Cold Harbor | [125] |
| Sherman's March to the Sea | [129] |
| Battle of Cloyd Mountain | [136] |
| The Siege and Fall of Petersburg | [142] |
| The Surrender at Appomattox | [149] |
[ILLUSTRATIONS]
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| General Robert E. Lee | [16] |
| General Ulysses S. Grant | [32] |
| John Brown on His Way to the Gallows | [48] |
| Battlefield of First Bull Run | [64] |
| Battle of Antietam | [96] |
| Battle of Gettysburg | [112] |
| Dedicating the National Cemetery at Gettysburg | [128] |
| Battle of Spottsylvania Court-House | [144] |
[AUTHOR'S PREFACE]
In all history of this American Republic, or perhaps any other nation, there was no conflict that was so terrible as our Civil war. Napoleon's efforts to bring into reality his dream of universal empire would not compare with it.
I have endeavored in this book to describe in detail the chief points that were enacted on the most important battlefields of that War. As those who participated in that War are now fast passing away, and the time will soon be here when they will only be remembered by their deeds of valor on these battlefields, I deem it only fit and proper that those in all walks of life should know more of these battles in detail and of those who participated in them. I think you will get this information from this book, as it is written specially with this view. It should specially appeal to teachers and students who can use it in a supplementary way in connection with the study of history of this period.
I now commend this book to you, and trust that it may be the means of giving you more light on this the greatest civil war of all time, and that it may help to lengthen in the minds of the American people their remembrance of those who participated in it.