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THE
Civil
War
by Campaigns
By ELI
G.
FOSTER
S.
Author op " Reference Manual and Outlines op U.

AND ''Foster's Historical Chart''
History,"
Crane
&
Company, Publishers
ToPEKA, Kansas
1899^
the: t"IW Y')RK
PUBLIC LIBRARY
ASTOP.
LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1923 L R
Copyright 1899, by
Crane & Company, Topeka, Kansas.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Pages.
1.
Causes of the Civil
2.
Opening Events of
Naval
War tlie War
7-28
29- 35 36- oU
5(>-
3.
War
Missouri
4.
5.
Coast Operations
56
War
in
57- 68
6.
7.
8.
Grant's Campaign in the West
68-81
82-103
101-117
117-131
The Opening
Chattanooga
of the Mississippi River
Bragg's Invasion of Kentucky
9.
10.
11.
Sherman's March
to Atlanta
131-148
Sherman's March to the Sea

-NlcClellan's
149-164
12.
13.
Peninsular Campaign
165-179
180-188
Pope's Campaign
14.
15.
From Antietam
Chancellorsville
to
Fredericksburg
189-196
197-202
16.
Gettysburg
Grant's Overland Campaign
203-211
17.
18. 19.
211-226
Sheridan and Early
in
the Shenandoah Valley
226-234
234-248
Peace Commission, and Surrender of Lee

Outskirt
20. 21. 22.
Movements
248-252
252-262
Financial Measures
Cost of the
War National Debt
Closing Events
262-271
LIST OF MAPS.
Campaigns
P'orts
in
Missouri
6(.)
Henry and Donelson (frant's Campaign in the West

Island No. 10
(3)
7()
74
84
CONTENTS.
92
106 113
1
Grant at Vicksburg Campaigns of Buell and Bragg

Morgan's Raid
Chattanooga
Sherman's March to the Sea, and Hood's Retreat
27
142
The Army of the Potomac Lee's Campaign in Virginia

Battle of Gettysburg
IHS
203
204
INTRODUCTION.
Many
Nearly
oood
liistorios
of
tlie
Civil
War
have heon written.
all
of them devote
much
space to the details of battles

tliini^
and campaigns,
a most excellent
for those
devote their time to a comprehensive study of the war.
following chapters have been prepared for those
who wish to The who wish a
more condensed account of the important
events.
The
facts have been diligently collected
from leading standInstead of treat-
ard Avorks, and are presented in a
new form.
ing the subject chronologically, as works generally do, the author

has Avritten entirely by campaigns.
The movements
of one
army have been

has commenced.
fully treated before the discussion of another

It is
method of treatment will Indeed, this method of presentation of the subject to young men and young women in the school-room has resulted in awakening increased interest in the study of the great war, and has been the means of preventing many confusions that would otherwise occur and it has made the time spent in the study of the war more fruitful
hoped that
this
be found both interesting and profitable.
in result.
The military campaign maps tracing
the
movements of the
armies are entirely original, and have been prepared expressly

for this volume. A careful study of the maps " Grant's Campaign in the West," " Campaigns of Buell and Bragg,'' " Sherman's March to the Sea," and the " Army of the Potomac,"
will aid greatly in giving a clear
theaters of the Civil

sieges
and definite idea of the great War. The maps locating the battles and have been copied from larger works. All fanciful pic(5)
6
tures have beon a voider]
INTKHDUCTION.
only maps intended to simplify the
study of battles, eampaipis, and the great movements of the

armies, have been inserted.
Rnt
little
attention lias "been paid to the
various corps of the armies upon the field of battle.

detail has been purposely avoided.
movements of the Too great Those who desire this phase
of the
war are referred to the comprehensive works. minor events have been barely mentioned, some omitted entirely. The war was full of dramatic incidents. Books might be written, and in fact have been written, upon them. My aim is to present here only the main facts of the war, with now and again an incident appended to enliven and embellish the study of the movements of these ponderous armies in
]\Iany interesting
their Titanic struggles.
hoped that the omission of technical terms and the use of the campaign methods of treatment, illustrated by the miliIt is
tary campaign maps, will be the
means of
so simplifying the
subject that even the casual student

the various
campaigns of the war in

attention
is
may gain a clear idea the minimum of time.

l)y
of
But
to the
little
generally paid
the average person
study of the sources of revenue, without which governexist.
ments cannot
The chapter on
is
the financial measures to
provide revenue for the war
inserted to sup]:)ly at least an
outline on the subject, and should elicit a

the financial question.
more careful study
of
If the book finds
its
way
into the
hands of those who have not
the time to read nor the
means
to i)rocure the
numerous
excellent
comprehensive works on the Civil War, and aids in promoting

a better understanding of this great epoch in the history of our
!Nâtion, the
mission of the author in writing the work will be
fully attained.
ELI
ToPEKA, Kansas.
G.
FOSTER.
THE
Gi\ IL
WAR BY
CHAPTER
CAMPAIGNS.
I.
THE CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR.

Slavery and States' Rights were the two causes of the Civil
War
in the United States.
They came before
the people in a
variety of forms, which, in spite of repeated compromises, only
widened the sentiments between the North and South.

]\Iissouri
The
Compromise was
the first of a series of enactments and
struggles between the two sections on the subject of Slavery.
The
election of
Abraham Lincoln on
a platform opposed to the
extension of slavery was the last of the series, which grew more
bitter
and antagonistic until
it
culminated in the firing upoji
Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861.
The
first
Nullification Act of South Carolina, in 1832,
was the
serious manifestation of the doctrine of States' Rights,

finally, in the secession
which ended,
ordinances of the Southern

conflict.
States and precipitated the great
American
State Rigiits.
Different
vicAvs
were held by statesmen
"from the very beginning of our national history as to the nature

of the bond which held the States together.
It
was maintained
or con-
by one
class of statesmen that the
Union was a league
federation, which might be dissolved at the will of any of the

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States.
THE CIVIL
WAR
RY CAMPAIGNS.
Under
this theory a failure
on the part of the General
Government
to protect the rights, expressed or assumed, of any
of the States, entirely released these States
from
obligations to
sep-
the Union,
and restored them
to their
former position of
arate sovereign States.
Another
class of statesmen held that the
Federal Union con-
stituted a nation, with a strong central government,

no- State could secede
and that
all
from the Union without the consent of
the others.
These were the different constructions placed upon
the Constitution,
from
^^'hich
no serious
conflict arose until cer-
tain material questions
came before the people
for solution.
Chief among these were those which related to
tariff
and
slavery.
The South, which was engaged

tries,
entirely in agricultural indus-
demanded
free trade.
The ôrth, which derived much

industries, called for protecit
of its wealth
tion.
from manufacturing
When
the Tariff Act of 1832 became a law,
caused
in-
tense opposition
among
the people of the South, and led South

se-
Carolina to declare the act null and void, and to threaten to

cede from the Union
to enforce the law.
if
the Federal
Government should endeavor

action of President
The prompt and vigorous
Andrew Jackson
stored order
;
in sending troops to the rebellious State, re-
and Clay's compromise measure the following year
pacified the leaders for a time.
They however did not abandon

it
the principle of secession, but only shifted

issue, in
from the
tariff
which they had scored a
victory, to the
much compro-
mised and yet uncompromising issue of slavery extension.
Differences between the North and the South.

people
The
by
who
settled these
two sections were entirely different in
thought, habit, and customs.
They sprung from
different classes,
settled
Tnongh
all
were of English origin.
The North was
the Puritans,
who
fled
from the oppression and
religious per-
secution of
of faith
England
in search of freedom and a purer system
and worship.
The
early settlers of the South were the
Cavaliers,
their king.
who were
loyal to both the State

to the
and the religion of

middle
class,
The Puritans belonged
the
to
yoemanry, the pride and support of England,

establish
and
came
homes for themselves.

and
nobility,
The Cavaliers belonged

and came
largely
to the aristocracy
in search of wealth.
The
representatives of these two classes of society impressed
themselves upon the development of the respective sections in
which they
for a
settled,
and moulded the customs and institutions

class of settlers
more varied
who followed them.
The
character of the settlers in the North, as well as the nature of

the soil
tates.
and climate, tended toward the cultivation of small
es-
But
the early settlers of the South brought with

estates,
them
from England the idea of large
which climate and the
introduction of African slavery aided to perpetuate.

section
The one
was strongly imbued with the love of

all.
liberty
and a desire
for equal opportunities for
Free schools were established,

cities multiplied.
manufacturing sprung up, and

tion
The
other sec-
became agricultural, and educational advantages were conThis contrast in the character of the peo-
fined to the wealthy.
ple, the difference in the industries of the
two
sections,
and the
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THE CIVIL WAR BY CAMPAIGNS.
different conditions of climate

profitable in the
and
soil,
making
slave labor
more
Sonth than in the Nôrth, show how easily one

States.
section could
become slaveholding States and another free
Growtji of Slavery.
Slavery
was introduced
in the colof
onies in 1619, at Jamestown, Virginia.

slaves
The importation
Kevolutionary
was continued, and
at the close of the
War
col-
the slaves in the States
numbered 600,000, while there were

had woven slavery in her
greater.
about 50,000 free persons of color distributed through the

onies.
Europe
in her greed for gain
colonial policy that her
home revenues might be

slaves, tliough they
There
was not a colony without
were more com-
mon
in the
South than
in the Nôrth.
In vain had the Virginia

^^
House of Burgesses protested against the

slave trade."
inhumanity of the
The colony
of South Carolina passed an act in
1760
prohil)iting the importation of slaves, but the British govto sanction

it.
ernment refused
Otiier colonies
had endeavored
to place restrictions
upon the
trade, but without success.
The invention
of the
cotton-gin by
Eli
Whitney (1793)
greatly stimulated the
demand
for negroes and increased the
importation of slaves.
Before the invention of the cotton-gin,
the process of separating the seed

tedious,
from the cotton was
slow,
and expensive.
By
the use of this machine, one person
could accomplish the work of several hundred hands.

vation of cotton was greatly extended, which
slave labor in the South,
The
culti-
made
demand
for
where cotton was grown, and increased

of slaves increased rapidly
traffic,
the value of slaves.
The number
even tliough restrictions were placed upon slave
and
for-
THE CAUSER OF THE CIVIL WAR.

eign importation prohibited by Jaw in 1808.
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When
the Civil
War
began,
tlie
number
of slaves in the United States was about
4,000,000.
Soutliern opinion, whicli in the early colonial day

evil,
considered slavery an
to
gradually changed.
Many had come
regard
it
as a great moral, social
and
political good,
an
in-
stitution ordained
by Providence for civilizing and educating
the black race.
MovEiNiENTs TOWARD Fkeedom OF THE Slaves.

ing of the Civil
At
all
the Open-
War
there were
more
slaves in the
United States
confined to
river.
than in
all
other countries combined.
These were
the States south of Pennsylvania
and of the Ohio
All
the
Northern States had freed their
slaves, either before the

it.
adoption of the Constitution or soon after

lead, in
all
Vermont took
the
1777; Pennsylvania followed, in 1780; and eventually
other Northern States followed in abolishing slavery or proits
viding measures to effect

ish
it
gradual abolition.
The
last to abol-
was
New
Jersey, in 1804.
is
Though America
its
the " land of the free," slavery clung

it
to
soil
with greater tenacity than
did to that of European

to the slaves in
countries.
Great J3ritain gave freedom
her
col-
onies in 1838.
colonies of the
Immediate emancipation of the
slaves of the
French Government was decreed in 1848.
Other
European powers followed the example of Great Britain.
Many
of the South- American republics provided for the abolition of
slavery
Mexico
as early as 1829.
Washington in
his will provided for the emancipation of his
own
slaves.
John Adams believed
that slavery should be " ex-
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tirpatrrl
from the United
Statos."
Jefferson, himself a slave-
holder, declared,
when speaking
of this institution, " I tremble
for
mj
country when I remember that
God
is
just."
Patrick
Henry, Franklin, Hamilton and Madison opposed the principle

of slavery.
Most of the wisest and
best
men
of the time, both North and
South, looked forward with confidence and hope to the speedy

abolition of an institution so averse to the principles of Christianity
and
so dangerous to the interests of society
and the
state.
The Iôrthwest Territory, Organized
1787.
In 17S7
the
country including the present States of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois,
Michigan and Wisconsin was organized into a Territory, which
was called the Northwest Territory.

to this region
Freedom was guaranteed

famous clause
:
by the insertion of
this
" Neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in this Territory,
otherwise than in punishment of crimes."

clause
This anti-slavery
was submitted three years before, by Jefferson, for the

also for
government not only of the Northwest Territory, but

that south of the Ohio
river.
The
slavery provision was rejected

later,
for the territory south of the
Ohio river; and
four slave
States
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi were

it;
formed out of
while the territory to the north of the Ohio

to the principles of
was permanently attached
freedom.
Missouri Compromise of 1820.
In 1803
the boundaries of
the United States were extended to include that vast region west
of the Mississippi river to the
Kocky Mountains, known
as the

Louisiana Territory.
13
Of
the various States afterward formed

first to
out of this region, Missouri was the

to the Union.
til
apply for admission
The main
it
question concerning the admission of
is
State was whether
should he free or slave.

^N'orth
Before the abolition of slavery in the
and the admission
of the free States north of the Ohio, slavery had not become a
sectional affair.
Many
in the South during the Kevolutionary
period believed in the gradual emancipation of the slaves.
But
sentiment had undergone a change; their chief concern became

the perpetuation of the institution.
definitely
Sectional lines were beiiig

issue.
drawn on slavery
as
an
A new
epoch in the
history of slavery
was instituted when Missouri
ap]3lied for ad-
mission to the Union as a State, in 1819.

ored to extend slavery to
it.
The South endeavopposed

real
new
territory, while the rTorth

Tt
The
discuRsi(m was long and acrimonious.
was the
begiiniliig of the great political struggle out of
which came the
Civil
War.
The famous Missouri Compromise provided:

1.
That Missouri should be admitted

"
to the
Union
as a slave
State.
2.
That slavery or involuntary servitude, except
as a punish-
ment^ of crime, should be prohibited in the remaining part of

the Louisiana Purchase lying north of latitude 36 degrees 30
minutes, which formed the southern boundary of Missouri.

3.
No
provision was
made
relative to the admission of the
Territories south of this line; but as slavery already existed

there, they
were
tacitly
surrendered to the slave-power.
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THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
Maine was admitted

free
as a free State,
on the principle that one

at the
and one slave State should be admitted

so
same time.
The compromise from which

ing.
much was
expected
settled' noth-
The Southern people continued
to feel
and
to act as if
thej had been lilndered in the exercise of their rights.
Mexican Wak,
1845-48.
Ifexico declared
to
itself
independent
of Spain in 1821, and established a republic.
In 1829 the Pres-
ident of ^fexico ]jroclaimed the abolition of slavery within the

limits of his territory.
Texas refused
comply.
The
slaveto
power of the United States sent money, supplies and arms
Texas, and aided in stirring up a revolution with the express
purpose of annexing more slave States to the Union.

ton,
Sam Housand
former Governor of Tennessee, headed the
revolutioii,
in
1836 Texas became
a Republic, independent of Mexico.
The
next year she applied for admission to the Union, but opposition
in the
House and Senate, exposing the duplicity with which
the
Jackson administration had acted toward Mexico, for the time

silenced the agitators for annexation.
until another effort
It
was not
long, however,
was made
to
extend the slave territory.
A
sig-
joint resolution annexing
Texas received the President's
nature,
March
1,
1845.
It also pledged the faith of the
United
States to permit
new
States to be formed of this territory, not
exceeding four.
Texas thus became a full-fledged State in the
Union, and President Polk sent troops to occupy the territory
between the rivers

claimed as her
soil.
Isûeces
^
and Rio Grande, which Mexico
In the war which followed, the territory
now comprising
the States and Territories of California, Ne-

vada, Utah, Arizona,
15
New
Mexico, and a portion of Colorado
and Wyoming, was ceded
to the
United
States.
The
CoMPiio^riSE of 1850 (the
Omnibus Bill).
tlie
In 1850
The angry
California applied for admission to
Union
as a free State.
This created a
stir
among
the slavehohling States.
menace
to
harmony and unity again appeared.
The primary
ohject in annexing Texas and conducting the ÂFexican the acquisition of slave territory.
War was
exclud-
The Wilmot Proviso,

With
ing slavery from
all
territory acquired as a result of the war,
after hitter discussion
was voted down.
the admission of
of .Mich
Arkansas in 1836
as a slave State,
came the admission
igan as a free State.
With
the admission of I(jwa as a free
State, the equipoise of slavery
was maintained hy providing
in
the
same
its
bill for
the admission of Florida as a slave State,
though
population was not near the number recjuired for the
admission of States.
that of slave Texas.
The admission
of free Wisconsin balanced
The admission of California as a free

North the most substantial
State would disturb the equilibrium between the free and slave
States,
and give
to the
benefits of
it
the
Mexican War
and defeat the object for which
had been
waged.
great political struggle ensued.
Threats of secession
filled the air, in
were
rife.
Fiery and impassioned eloquence
the midst of which. Clay
came forward with
his
compromise
bill.
The
passed,
bill
it
was stripped of provision
after provision, until,
when
provided for the territorial government of Utah, and
nothing more.
The
rejected provisions were afterward taken
up one by one
as a special order of business,
and passed with but
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THE OIVIL WAR BY 0AMPAIGN8.

change from the original
bill.
little
The Omnibus
Bill
was
re-
created.
1.
2.
The following were
its
provisions
California should be admitted as a free State.

ISTew States not exceeding four
might be formed out of
Texas.
The people
of each State were to decide for themselves

slave.
whether such State should be free or

3.
Texas should be paid $10,000,000 for her claim on
New
Mexico.
4.
Utah and lêw Mexico should be organized
as Territories
without mention of slavery.

5.
Slave trade should be prohibited in the District of Co-
lumbia.
6.
Slaves escaping from their masters into free States should
be arrested and retu rned to them.
The
last clause is called the
" Fugitive Slave Law," the pass-
age of which caused intense opposition in the North.

liberty laws
officers
Personal
were passed by Northern

aid in the arrest
States, prohibiting state
from giving
and return of any
slave.
Counsel was provided for the arrested negroes, and the practical
operation of the fugitive slave act annulled.
The passage
of
tlie
Omnibus
Bill
was the death-knell of the
Whig
party; and instead of pacifying the feelings of the cou

it
tending elements,
contained in
its
provisions the seeds for
new
and greater
conflicts.
The Kansas-Nebraska
Douglas introduced a
of two Territories,
bill
Bill, 1854.
In
1854 Stephen A.
which provided for the organization

as
known
Kansas and Nebraska.
The
peo-
THE CAUSES OF THE CIVJL WAR.
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pie of these Territories were to decide for themselves whethei'
the States should
cpme
into the
Union
free or slave.
It vir-
tually repealed the Missouri
Compromise, which guaranteed
freedom
to this section,
and a territory nearly as large as the

to slavery.
thirteen original States

ritories,
was opened
Of
the
two Terfa-
Kansas was the more southerly, therefore the more
vorably situated for the planting of the institution of slavery.
Kansas
tlius
became the battle-ground for the contending

Great preparations were made
Pro-
elements of freedom and slavery.
both North and South fur the setth^ment of the State.

slavery societies,
known
as
Blue Lodges and Socnal Bands, were
formed from the South. Pro-slavery immigrants puured into the
new Territory from Missouri.
The Emigrant Aid Society was
formed by Eli Thayer, of Worcester, Mass.
By means
of
it
and
to
similar societies, a stream of anti-slavery emigrants was sent
Kansas.
At
the elections, a great
many Missourians
who
crossed the
il-
border, intimidated election officers, and cast thousands of

legal votes for the pro-slavery candidates,
thus received a
large majority of all votes cast.

liad cast a
The
anti-slavery settlers,
who
majority of legal votes, repudiated the election, and
chose
tlieir
own
officers.
With two
rival Legishitures,
and with
the opposing parties of

for
freedom and slavery bitterly contending

civil
supremacy, matters soon drifted into

'Jlie
war
in the
new
'I'erritory.
burning of houses, sacking of towns, and the

This bloody drama
taking of life continued for seveiâl years.
awakt^ned the conscience of
many
persons to the real intent and
purposes of the slave-power. Altliough the pro-slavery party had
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THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
the moral and material support of the President
and cabinet, the
State
to the
was
finally
won
to the cause of
freedom, and was admitted
Union
in 1861.
Dred Scott Decision,

who was taken by
Missouri
1857.
Dred
;
Scott
was
a negro slave,
his master. Dr.
Emerson, from the State of

thence he was taken to Fort
to the free State of Illinois
Snelling, near the present site of St. Paul.

place, in
From
the latter
which he married with his master's consent, he was
taken back to Missouri in 1838, where with his wife and children
he was sold to John F. A. Sanford.

liberty of himself
Dred
Scott sued for the
and family; alleging that his residence in a
free State
and in a Territory from which slavery was excluded by
the Missouri Compromise, established his freedom.

for trespass, brought in a St. Louis court,
favor,
An
action
Scott's
State.
was decided in
which was reversed by the Supreme Court of the
The
case
was then taken
to the
Federal court.
Able counsel
represented both sides.

terest only,
The
case ceased to be of a personal inas a contest for
and assumed national importance
constitutional principles between the slavery

parties.
and anti-slavery
Both the Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United

In the
free,
final de-
States decided against the freedom of Scott.

cision, the court afiirmed that
'^
no negro, slave or
who was
of slave ancestry,
States."
was
entitled to sue in the courts of the United
After denying
its
own
jurisdiction of the case, the court
passed upon the merits, and proceeded to discuss the constitutionality of the points
which were of
interest to the opposing

parties.
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It declared the Missouri
Comproinise was unconstitu-
tit)nal; tliat
slave-owners could carry their slaves into any of the
Territories, and tliat the people of those Territories could not
lawfully hinder them; that a negro was not a citizen, and by
terms of the Constitution could not become a citizen of the
United
States.
mandate was issued directing the
suit to be
dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

grace of his master,
tliat
Dred
Scott soon obtained, by

(honied him.
freedom which the courts
By
this decision of the
Supreme Court,
wliicli is
considered
the most
infamous of
all its
decisions, slaves could be taken any-
where, and slavery
made
as
national.
Instead, however, of extend-
ing the institution,
was the intention of the judges (a

it
majority of
whom
were from slave States),
united the people

to tlie extension
of the North in a of slavery.
more determined opposition
Anti-Slavery Publications.
The opinions on
the slavery
question separated the people of the North and South.

effort
The
on the part of the South
to
extend the institution was the
source of the most bitter friction between the two sections.
majority of the people of the North at the time of the Missouri
Compromise had not thought
of abolisliing slavery in the South-
ern States; in fact, this was not their intention at the beginning
of the Civil
War.
at
There were some inspired souls

an early date devoted
in the
North,
however,
who
tlieir talents to
the aboli-
tion of slavery.
Some
of the most prominent deserve mention.
The
press and the platform were used with great effect to arouse
the public conscience to a realization of the great national wrong.
20
TIIK CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
The "
Liberator/' a weekly journal published by William
Lloyd Garrison, then a youth of twenty-six, appeared in Boston

in 1831.
The
spirit of the
paper
is
indicated by his words in
the first issue:

^'
I will be as harsh as truth,
and
as unconiproinisiiig as jus-
tice.
On
this subject, I
ISTo
!
do not wish to speak or think or write

ISTo
!
with moderation.
ocate
am
in earnest
will not equiv-
I will not excuse
will not retreat a single inch
and
I will be
heard!"
streets of
He
desist
;
was dragged through the

;
Boston with a rope

if
around his body

but he
he Avas threatened with death
he did not
still
continued to publish his paper and to organize
abolition societies, until the great

cated.
wrong he
assailed
was
eradi-
Frederick Douglass, a runaway slave from Maryland, edited

the " ISTorth Star
''
at Kochester,
New
York.
Kev. Elijah P. Lovejoy attempted to establish a religious and

anti-slavery paper, first at St. Louis, Mo.,
and then
at Alton, 111.,
1835-37.
his press.
Three times in one year a pro-slavery
mob
destroyed
While engaged in
attacked him.
setting
it
up
a fourth time, a prohis property, he
slavery
mob
While defending
was
killed.
John G. Whittier, the Quaker

lyrics flew across the country
anti-slavery poet, whose burning
and moulded sentiment against

at the
slavery,
narrowly escaped death
hands of a mob at Con-
cord, N. H., in 1836, while attending an anti-slavery meeting.
21
Of
the literary forces that aided in directing sentiment against
sTavery, the
most weighty was the book " Uncle Tom^s Cabin,"

It first appeared as a
written by Mvi>. Harriet Beecher Stowe.

serial
in
tlie
^'
National Era/' an anti-slavery newspaper at

little
it
Washington, D. C, bnt attracted

book honses were afraid
their Sonthern trade.
to
attention.
lest
it
The
shonld
great
liurt
it,
pnl^lisli
new house
in
Boston published
in
1852.
It at once attracted great attention,
and became one of
the most popular novels ever written.
Whittier wrote to Garri-
son
^'What a glorious work Harriet Beecher Stowe has wrought

to the Fugitive Slave
Thanks
Law.
it
Better for slavery that that
law had never been enacted, for
gave the occasion for
'
Uncle
limit,
Tom's Cabin.' "

at
The
sale of the
book was almost without

however, was
its
home and
abroad.
Its greatest success,
moral
weight in unifying and antagonizing the Northern conscience to

the iniquities of the slave-power.
" The Impending Crisis of the South " was an argument

against slavery on moral and economic grounds.
Its author,
Hinton Rowan Helper, was one of the non-slaveholders of the

South,
who pleaded
for the rights of his class.
The book
at the
time created quite a strong sensation.
The coublant
mosities.
postoffices,
discussion and agitation aroused fears and aniin
The mails were regularly searched
many Southern
and any anti-slavery literature was taken out and
burned.
"Abolitionist " became the severest term of reproach in
the South.
The churches became
violently agitated over the
22
burning
issue.

Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian denomina-
tions separated, ISTorth
and South, on the subject of slavery.
From
the influence of platform, pulpit, society, and press, ar-
rayed against the encroaching steps of slavery

tory formally dedicated to freedom, there
upon
the terri-
came
a cr^^stallized
sentiment expressed in the principles of the Itcpublican party

in its platform of 1856.
Ais'ti-Slavery Parties.
In 1840
same
the " Liberty Party " put
a national ticket in the field.
James G. Birney was nominated,

Four years
ticket.
but received only a small vote.
later
he received
more than G2,0U0
votes on the
The party favored

Columbia and
in a!!
the abolition of slavery in the District of
national territory.
It favored the repeal of the Fugitive Slave
Law, favored the prohibition of slavery in new Territories and
new
States,
was opposed
to the internal slave trade,
and opposed
with the
the annexation of Texas.
Its adherents joined fortunes
Free-Soil party in 1848.
The
'^
Free-Soil party " was organized by bolting

tlie
Whigs and
Democrats, wdio held advanced views on

It
slavery question.
was joined by the followers of the old Liberty party.

its
Among
some of
leaders were Charles Francis Adams, Salmon P.
Chase, Charles Sunnier, William H. Seward, John P. Hale,
John A. Dix,
aiul
Henry Wilson.
The
Presidential candidates in 1848 and 1852 received a
considerable popular vote, but not sufficient to carry the electors in
any
State.
It advocated non-interference with slavery
where
it
already

existed, but
23
opposed
all
compromises with slavery, or the formaterritory, or the admission of
tion of
State.
any more slave
any slave
The Refublican Party.

soil
The constant and

to
resolute aggres-
sions of the slave-power called forth an equally aggressivp free-
movement
in the North.
Whigs, Wilmot-Proviso Demo-
crats,
and the Free-Soilers united
form
new
party, to pre-
vent the spread of slavery into
new
territory.
The various
Fremont was
elements opposed to slavery were thus skillfully and smoothly
kneaded into the new Eepublican party.

the first candidate for President.
votes;
John
C.
He
8.
received 114 electoral
Buchanan, 174; and Fillmore,
This formidable vote
might well have carried dismay into the pro-slavery columns.
The
election of
little
Buchanan on
a pro-slavery platform gave the

as events
South
ground for complaint, but
have shown,
it
afforded them an opportunity to prepare for Avar.
Through
the
treachery of the Secretary of War, John B. Floyd, and the indifference of the administration at Washington, large
amounts
of arms,
ammunition and
the time
stores
were transferred
to the South.
When
ham
came to choose a President, the people were
divided into four parties.
The Republicans nominated Abraand that Congress

all
Tincoln on the platform that there was no law for slavery
in Territories,
and no power
to enact one,
was bound
ritory.
to prohibit it in or exclude it
from
Federal
ter-
John C. Breckinridge was nominated by
the Southern
Democracy, on a platform distinctly favoring the extension of

slavery.
Stephen A. Douglas was nominated by the Northern
24
THE
CIVir.
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
Democracy, on a platform wliich would leave the people free

to decide the slavery question i'or themselves in
each Territory.
Bell,
The Constitntional Union party nominated John

Touni^ssee, on
tliis
of
platform: "
'J'lie
Constitution of the conntry,
the
Union of the
States,
and the enforcement of the laws."
The
popular vote decided against the extension of slavery.

electoral college, Lincoln received
In the
180
votes,
Breckinridge 72,
Bell 39, and Douglas 12.
The
slavery qnestion was the issue in the campaigTi.

Baii>, 1859.
John Brown's
ist.
John Brown was an

before,
abolition-
He moved
to
Kansas
in 1855, in time to
become a conspicFive of his
uons figure in the thrilling scenes of that State.

sons had settled near
Osawatomie the year
and
all
took
tri-
up the canse
of freedom.
Slavery would no doubt have

skill,
umphed
over legal and legislative
had not the sword been
thrown into the balance by such bold and resolute men as Brown.
After peace had been restored in Kansas, he conceived the idea
of freeing the slaves of the South.
Settling on a small
farm
near Harper's Kerry, he began secretly to collect material for

executing his designs.
He
Avith
twenty-one associates appeared
before Harper's Ferry on the night of October 16th, 1859, and

easily overpowered the guards
and took possession of the

States.
ar-
mory
there, belonging, to the
United
He
expected to
the guns
create an uprising
among
the slaves,
arm them with
stored there and liberate the negroes of the South.
Between forty and

in the
fifty citizens
were captured and confined
armory by him.
Some
slaves
were
liberated.
The people
25
of the town, ariiiinc; IlioiiisoKcs, iiindo an attack on the insnr-i>'Pii1s.
'J'hc
U.
8.
Marino, ooniinandofl by
to
(/ol.
Iiol)ort
E. Lee,
arrived.
Tlio
militia comnioncod
killed,
pour
in.
Thirteen of
sons.
Brown's men were

his
two of wliom were his
Two
of
men
escaped, and the rest were captured.
Brown
himself
was dangerously wounded.
He
erratic
ity
was
S2)ccdilj tried before a

2,
Virginia court, and was exe-
cuted on December
ISnO.
TTis execution for this wild
and
scheme
reflects little credit
upon the elements of humanVirginia,
and generosity of the
officers of
when we consider
that Jefferson Davis
and his followers suffered no such fate for
conducting the stupendous campaign of the great Rebellion.
Brown
people.
died a martyr to the cause of liberating an enslaved

spirit
His
was present in many a
battle
which followed,
and many a regiment was stirred by the words of the popular
war song
"John Brown's body
But
his soul is
lies
a-moulderiug in the grave,
marching on."
as it
Secession.
elected.
As soon
became known that Lincoln was
South Carolina called a convention to consider an ordi-
nance of secession, which ^vas unanimously passed on December

20, 1860.
to
Commissioners were sent
to the other cotton States
urge them to follow in the same course.

President Buchanan gave encouragement to the Southern
cause by his vacillating action.
His message
to
Congress in
December, 1860, Avhich was strongly disunion in character, contained these words: "After
much
serious
reflection,
I have
26
thp: civil
war by
campaigns.
arrived at the conclusion that no power has been delegated to
Congress, or to any other department of the Federal Govern-
ment, to coerce a State into submission which
is
attempting to
withdraw or has withdraAvn from the Union."

have profited by Jackson's vigorous measures
He
might well
a third of a cen-
tury before, when South Carolina threatened to secede.

Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
Texas,
Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, withdrew from

the
Union
in the
order named.
Four
slave States
Delaware,
In
these,
Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky
did not
secede.
sentiment was divided between the E'orth and the South, with
the preponderance in favor of the former.
The ordinances
of secession were followed quickly by the seiz

tlie
ure of the United States forts, arsenals and custom-houses in
seceding States, and by the formation of a Confederate Govern-
ment.
The
capital wâs located at
Montgomery, Alabama.
Jef-
ferson Davis was chosen President and Alexander
H. Stephens
Vice-President.
Southern
officers
resigned their places in the
Congress and the Cabinet, and in the
Army and Navy.

was
a close pattern
it
The
constitution of the Confederate States
of that from whose banner they had withdrawn, except that
made
slavery the corner-stone of the
new
system, and forbade a
protective tariff.
Crittendp:n Compromise, December, 1860.

mittee,
A Senate comdifferent
composed of men of different
politics
and from
sections of the country,
made
a last effort to patch
up
a scheme
by which slavery and freedom might work out
their ambitions

together.
'of the
27
a
The
patriotic
John
J. Crittenden,
who was
member
It of-
committee from Kentucky, submitted the scheme.
fered guaranties against arbitrary abolition of slavery by Congress in the slave States, or in places once within their limits,
such as forts and navy-yards.
It restrained Federal interferIt
ence with the interstate transportation of slaves.
bound the
United States
to
provide payment for fugitive slaves when local

It
violence prevented their return.
advised Northern States
to repeal their personal liberty laws.
But
its
main feature was
to establish,
by constitutional amendment, the Missouri Com-
promise line (36 30'), running east and west across the continent, as a
permanent barrier between the free and slave
States.
All efforts to reconcile the conflicting opinions proved futile.
The
vital points
alike.
were rejected by members from the
JSTorth
and
South
Inauguration of Lincoln, March

coln
4,
1861.
his
Abraham Linhome
in Spring-
was inaugurated March
4,
1861.
From
field, 111., to
Ilarrisburg, Pa., he
was everywhere received with
demonstrations of loyalty.
of the capitals
lie delivered addresses to the people

cities
and other large
of the States through

city,
which he passed.
Baltimore was not only a slaveholding
but Avas infested with a large
number
of persons
who were
tlie
loud
and
fierce in their
denunciation of Lincoln and
principles
which he represented.
Frequent reports were heard that a
plan had been concocted for the assassination of the

dent as he passed through the
city.
new
Presi-
His friends persuaded him
28
to

go to Washington on a special train, in advance of the one on
which his passage had been announced.

Lincoln's inangnral address was an able state paper.
It
was
an admirable
Avithont
effort to
cahn the ardor of the South for disunion,
compromising any of the principles of the party which

Tlie following detached sentences will express
had elected him.
Lincoln's views on some of the leading issues of that hour:
"I
^^
have no purpose, directly or indirectly,
to interfere
with
the institution of slavery in any of the States where
it exists.'^
The power confided
in
me
will be used to hold, occupy

to the
and
possess the property

^'
and places belonging
Government."
I shall take care, as the Constitution expressly enjoins
upon
me, that the laws of the

States."
^'
Union be
faithfully executed, in all
ô
State,
upon
its
ovm mere motion, can
lawfully get out
of the Union."
" In your hands,

in mine, is the
my
dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,
and not
momentous
issue of civil war.
The Government
will not assail you."
The
olive-branch of peace was accepted by the conspirators
as a challenge to war.
CHAPTER
11.
OPENING EVENTS OF THE WAR.

Capture of Fort Sumter, April
13, 1801.
The seceding
States at once began to seize all forts, arsenals, and national
property of every description for the use of the Confederacy.
Major Anderson, of the U.

trie
S.
Army, was occupying Fort MoulFearing an attack by the

his coniniand, on the
with a force of but ten men.
secessionists in Charleston, he
withdrew
night of December 26, 1800, to Fort Sumter, situated on an

island in the harbor, a stronger position than the one
which he
had abandoned.
Fort Moultrie was immediately occupied by
the authorities of Charleston.

batteries erected,
The
fort
was strengtliened and
and preparations begun for the reduction of

national authorities instructed
Fort Sumter.
The
Major AnEarly
derson not to interfere with this hostile proceeding.

in January, an
imarmed
was
vessel, the
Star of the West, carried
troops and supplies to reinforce Fort Sumter.

sight of the fort
ies,
it
When
within
batter-
fired
upon from the Confederate

'No effort was
and was
obh'ged to turn back.

to
made by
flag.
the
Government
avenge this insult to the national
The
had
Confederates organized an army, most of whose
officers
abandoned the Federal
service.
Gen. Beauregard was placed in

All supplies of food
command
federates.
of their forces at Charleston.

off"
from Charleston were cut
from Major Anderson by the Conto
The National Government began

(29)
make prepara-
30
tions to replenish the supply of food, without
which the fort

Gen. Beaure-
would soon have been starved into capitulation.
gard was instructed to demand the surrender of Sumter, and in

case of refusal, to reduce
it.
The powerful
it,
batteries
which had been thrown up

fort.
all
around
opened
fire
upon the
The bombardment continued

spirited defense, but
thirty-four hours.
Anderson made a
was
compelled to surrender after his ammunition was nearly expended, provisions consumed, magazine surrounded by flames,
and other damage wrought

on the 13th day of ApriL
to the fort.
The surrender was made
The next day

for
the fort
was evacuated, and the troops embarked
New
a
York.
Not
man was
killed on either side during the engagement.

to salute the
But while preparing

took
its
lowered
flag, as
the garrison
departure, a premature explosion occurred, which killed
one Federal soldier and wounded three others.
The joy
of the
South was complete, on receiving the news of the surrender of

Fort Sumter.
Call for Troops, April

Fort Sumter dispelled
slavery question.
ciliation.
all
15, 1801.
News
of the attack
upon
hopes for peaceful solution of the
Hitherto the President had hoped for recon-
War was commenced

On
by the military seizure of the
national fort.
Lincoln accepted the issue of war thus forced

April 15th he issued a
call for
upon the country.
75,000
to
troops, to serve for three months,
and summoned (vongress
assemble July
4th in extra session.
News
of the fall of
Sumter
31
awakened sentiments of the most enthusiastic loyalty in the ^vforthern States, and the response to the President's call was
prompt and
patriotic.
Within two weeks, 300,000 men offered

flag.
themselves to preserve the Union and defend the
The
loyal
whole ôrth became a great camp

States
of preparation.
The
made
liberal appropriations for the public defense.
Be-
fore the lapse of forty-eight hours, a Massachusetts regiment,
armed and equipped, was on
its
way
from
to
Washington.
Pennsyl-
vania volunteers reached that city on the 18th, and soon troops
were on their way
to the capital
all
lôrthern States.
less active.
The
authorities at
Montgomery were no
The
call
for additional troops was responded to with great enthusiasm.
Only seven of the Southern

call for troops.
States
had seceded before Lincoln's
After
this,
Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas
and Tennessee
cast their fortunes with the Confederacy.
The
Confederate capital was moved to

ginia seceded from the Union.
Kichmond,
as soon as Vir-
On
the 19th of April, the anniversary of the battle of Lexing-
ton, as the
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment was on

it
its
way through
Baltimore,
was attacked by
others.
mob, which killed three soldiers
and wounded
eleven and
The
troops fired into the mob, killing
wounding
several.
Intense excitement prevailed.

assailed.
Other troops, yet unarmed, were
Baltimore was
vir-
tually in control of the secessionists, but the approach of General Butler's
command, and
the gathering courage of Unionists

its senses.
brought the rebellious city to

Col. Ellsworth, in
command
of the ^N'ew
York Fire Zouaves,
32

the
moved down
at this point.
Potomac
to Alexandria.
No
resistance
was met
Seeing a Confederate flag waving from the Marin Alexandria, he stepped in with four of his
shall
House
it
men
and took
down.
Passiwg down
sliot
stairs,
he was met by eTackson,
the hotel-keeper,
who
Ellsworth dead on the spot.
Jackson
Ells-
suffered a like fate, for
he was instantly shot by one of
worth's men.
Events in West Virginia.
The northwestern
its
th(i
part of the
State of Virginia, comprising one-third of
area,
had for
many
years been at variance with
rest of the State on ques-
tions arising
from the institution of
slavery.
When
Virginia
seceded, an opportunity
was afforded
this portion of the State to
separate itself from the dominating influence of slavery.
Ac-
cordingly, the people of that section called a convention, dis-
avowed the
act of secession, established a loyal government,
and
took steps to be admitted to the
Union
as a separate State called
West Virginia.
Movements were
at once set
on foot to protect the new-born

Gen. George B. McClellan
State in her efforts to aid the Union.
was placed in command of a Federal force, with Gen.

Rosecrans as his second.
W.
S. at
The Confederates were defeated

all
Philippi and at llich Mountain, and practically lost

in
power
the
State.
These events, thougli
at the
time important,
must be regarded as merely a prelnde

which was soon to be fought.
to the first great battle,
After these successes in West Viriiinin and the Union defeat

at Bull
Run, Gen. McCkllan was promoted
to the
command
of

the
33
Army
Lee,
of the Potomac, and Rosecrans left to confront Robert

sent to retrieve Confederate losses in that
E.
who was
State.
Great results had been expected from Lee's presence, but
after several
minor engagements in which he exhibited none of

later campaigns, he
that vigor
which characterized his

fields.
was
trans-
ferred to other
Battle of Bult.
to
Rut^,
July
21, 1861.
The South prepared

Genit
prevent the advance of the Union troops into Virginia.
eral Beanregard, fresh
from
his glories at Fort Sumter, led a
strong Confederate column to Manassas Junction, and posted
behind Bull
Run
creek.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, retreating

at
from Harper's Ferry, took a position

cooperate with Gen. Beauregard.
Winchester, ready to
line of defense
Tliis
was
extended to the Potomac.
Gen. Winfield Scott, the hero of the Mexican War, was General-in-chief of the
Union
forces.
He was
too old
and infirm
to take the field for active service.
Gen. Irwin McDowell was
placed in
command
of the army,
which commenced the forward
movement.
Johnston.
The Union General Robert Patterson confronted

Arlington Heights, Lee's old home, opposite Wash-
ington, wâs seized
by the Union troops and strongly
fortified.
The armies
hastily
of both sides consisted of
raw
militia
and volunteers,
experience.
brought
together
and
without
drill the
military
Gen. Scott argued for time to
new
The
recruits before at-
tempting an advance.
calling for the
Northern newspapers were impatiently

of the army.
cry,
movement
"On
to Rich-
mond
" was taken up by Congressmen and Senators.
The
34
pressure on the Government became too strong to be resisted.
Secretary Salmon P. Chase was the champion in the cabinet

of the intense feeling in the
ôrth for a prompt and vigorous

irresistible,
campaign. Public sentiment became

to
it,
and
in response
the
army advanced, about 35,000

at their
strong.
The ConfederPatterson was

to the rescue
ates
had
command
about 30,000 men.
directed to prevent Johnston's

of their comrades at Bull
in doing.
army from going

a task
Run,
which he did not succeed
On
the 18th of July the
Union advance found
Confederate force at Blackburn's ford, on Bull Run, and after

a sharp conflict the Federals fell back to Centreville.
On
the
21st they resumed their march, and fought the Battle of Bull
Run,
or
Manassas Junction.
The
conflict
opened at about
the enemy's
10:30 in the morning.

left,
McDowell bore heavily on

from the stone bridge,
to
hoping
to drive it
make himself
master of Manassas Gap, and to prevent the junction of Johnston's reinforcements.

ston's
He
did not
know
that 8,000 of John-
men had
arrived the day before.
By
three o'clock the

the remaining
enemy had been driven back some

Gen. Kirby Smith, arrived by
distance,
when
brigade of Johnston's army, under the immediate

rail.
command
of
Cheer after cheer burst from
the Confederate forces as their fresh ranks rushed to the front.
The Union columns

forts to re-form
broke, rushed
down
:
the hillside, and all ef-
them were
of no avail
the retreat
was continued
in confusion to
Washington.
The three-months men, whose term
of enlistment had expired, went home.
shadow of gloom was

cast
3.">
upon the North
the spirit of triumph and confidence
upon
the South.
The Confederates did not attempt an
active pursuit.
Their
army was much demoralized, not

campaign against the defenses
ates lost about 2,000 killed
at
in a condition to engage in a
Washington.
The ConfederUnion
loss
and wounded,
wliile the
was about 3,000,

taught the lesson
the
many of whom were prisoners. The disaster so many in the ISTorth needed to know that
war would be
long, bloody,
and
costly.
At once movements
were put on foot for a gigantic struggle by both rival governments.
CHAPTEK
III.
NAVAL WAR.
Brief History of the Growth of Tâval Science before
THE Civil War.

but
little
Until
the year 1840, naval science had
made
progress.
last
Sliips
were essentially the same as they had
been for the
two hundred years, and naval warfare was con-
ducted on the same principle.

place, but
few improvements had taken
none of any great importance.
The introduction of
steam as a motive power in 1840 marked the beginning of a new

era.
The next
thirty years witnessed great improvement.
Sail-
ing-vessels wei-e
abandoned for the improved steamers.

into use as a powerful
The
ram again came
weapon of
destruction.
The Greeks and Romans had used a ram on

great eifect.
their galleys with
When
sailing-vessels superseded the galleys, this
engine of warfare
fell into disuse.
The introduction
of steam
again revived the use of the ram, with greatly increased power.
The manufacture
caliber
of guns had undergone a great change.
Their
was increased.
Breech-loading and rifling came into use.
Greater range, accuracy and penetration were obtained.

sides of vessels, hitherto unprotected,
The
were shielded by two-inch

until
iron
plate,
which was gradually improved

solid
the vessels
were armored with

fact,
'I'he
masses of
steel,
22 inches thick.
In
the whole system of naval tactics underwent a change.
improvement began with the introduction of steam

(36)
as a
NAVAL WAR.
motive power, but only reached
its
87
trials
culmination in the
and
'emergencies of the Civil War.
The
IN'avy
of 1861.
At
the outbreak of the Rebellion onr
navy was not
in a condition to render the eifective assistance
whicli the occasion
demanded.
I'he total
at the
number
of vessels in
the service of the
Government
time was ninety.
Fifty of
these were sailing ships, and, splendid as they had been in their
day, they had
now become almost

Only eight
useless.
Forty were propelled
by steam.
^lost of these were in foreign ports, or laid

vessels
;
up
in the
navy yards.
those of the
ers.
were ready for immediate use
home squadron
and only four of these were steamofficers
More than two hundred
resigned their commissions"
and hastened to join their fortunes Avith the Southern States.
The Government began
the
work of
collecting a great navy.
Six hundred vessels were demanded at once for blockading the
Southern coast and for operating against Confederate privateers.

Six screw-frigates, constructed in 1855, commanding the admiration of naval
liance of the
men
at
home and abroad, were

They proved
of
little
the chief re-
Government.
value, howevet*,
because they wêre unable to enter the shallow waters of the
Southern
coast.
The
vessels in foreign ports
were called home.
Those in the navy yards were soon made available.

chant marines, tho'ugh of limited
facilities,
The mer-
afforded an oppor-
tunity for improvising a naval force.
The South entered upon
the
war without any navy, and with
limited resources for creating one.
Had
it
not been for the aid
from England, acting contrary
to the rights of a neutral nation.
38
hilt little

flamapê
little
would have been done
to the
commerce
of the
North, and
resistance offered to the naval force of the

seized several revenueto the
Union.
cutters
The Confederate government
and lighthouse-tenders, belonging

little
United States;
but these were of
value.
The Merrimac, which was sunk
on the abandonment of Norfolk, was raised by Confederates,
and for a time threatened much harm.
Object of the Navy.
The navy with

it
its
limited resources
Its
had a weighty task imposed upon

objects
1.
at the
very beginning.
may
be included under several heads:

to blockade the entire coast of the
It
was
Confederate
States, a distance of nearly three

2.
thousand miles.
its
It was to aid in the opening of the Mississippi river and
tributaries.
3.
It
was
to acquire control of all to the
bays and sounds from the
Chesapeake
4.
Rio Grande.
It
was
to protect the
commerce of the United
States, de-
stroy or capture all Confederate cruisers and blockade-runners.

5.
It
was expected
and
to capture all forts along the coast
and
seaports,
to aid in the
movements and campaigns of the
armies within cooperating distance along the coast.
Abandonment of Norfolk, April

located about twelve miles
21,
1801.
Norfolk,
seat
this
from Fortress Monroe, was abandoned

It
by the Federals
in the early spring of 1861.
was the
of one of the principal
navy yards of the Nation,
At
time
there were four
war
vessels lying there,
which could have been
NAVAL WAR.
prepared for sea
Merriniac,
in a short time.
39
of these
One
was the
an
friiG,ate
wliich,
after
beini;'
converted
into
ironclad,
made
sncli liavoc at
Hampton Koads.
There were
also several of
old vessels of no great vahie in the yards.
The inhabitants
Norfolk and vicinity had become very hostile toward the Government.
Many
of the officers were disloyal to the Union.
Doubts
loyal.
and indecision characterized the minds of those who were
And
The
without any good reason, the ships and buildings were fired
and destroyed, and Norfolk abandoned on the 21st of April.

greatest misfortune to the
Union was the
loss of at least
1,200 fine guns, which were used to

federates from the Potomac
>
man
the forts of the Con-
the Mississippi.
Had
it
not been
for the guns taken at Norfolk
and Pensacola, the Confederates
could not have armed their fortifications for at least a year

after the opening of hostilities.
The destruction
of the navy
yards seems to have been the result of a panic, for there was
no imminent danger
to
warrant
this action.
After remaining in possession of the Confederates about one

year, Norfolk
was evacuated by them
Avith as little reason as
that which led to the departure of the
Union
authority.
Tjie Blockade.
The
first
order for the blockade of the
Southern ports was issued by President Lincoln April 19, 1861.
The blockade was
a military
measure of great importance.
At
the breaking-out of the
war the South was
destitute of ships,
machine-shops, rolling-mills, and gun factories.

the other hand,
England, on
was both capable and desirous of furnishing
arms, munitions of war, ships, and clothing, in exchange for the
40
TIIK
IVIL
WAR BY
Sontli.
CAMPAIGNS.
this
raw cotton grown in the
Without
commercial
in-
tercourse between Great Britain and the Confederacy, the Con-
federate cause wouhl be greatly weakened, and
many
of the
manufactories of
All
available
England
ships
of
closed.
every
descri])tion
and from every

task of
source were drafted into service for the
momentous
to the
blockading the coast
from the Chesapeake
Rio Grande.
fully equal
effi-
The
to
force thus hastily gathered, though not at
first
the task
imposed upon
it,
became in time entirely
cient,
and virtually sealed the

It is true,
Southern ports from foreign

vigi-
commerce.
some blockade-runners escaped the
lance of our vessels and carried on a contraband trade with the
South.
Blockade-Runnees.
With
the blockade of
tlie
Southern
ports the price of cotton in the South fell to eight cents a pound,
while in England
it
rose to fifty cents per pound.
Commerce
between the two countries became a profitable business to those
who succeeded
in running the blockade.
Regular
'^
blockadevessels
Theii-
runners " were constructed.

of great speed, which
hulls Avere only a
coal,
They were long, low steam

little
drew but
depth of water.
few
feet out of water.

little
They burned
anthracite
be-
which made but
smoke.
Their trips were made
tween the Confederate States and ^Nassau, the capital of the Ba-
hama
islands,
which was the center from which Great
Britaii;
carried on
commerce with the South.
The blockade-runners
Indies,
carried the cotton to Nassau and the
West
where
it
wa^
witli
taken upon vessels headed for England, while they returned
NAVAL WAR.
tlie
41
cnrcôos of "Briiisii ^'oods to food
and
clotlio
tho Roiithern
off the coast
;riiiios
and
('(piii) tlio
Suntlioni troops.
Aj^pearing
on a dark night, they would make a dash past the blockading

vessels,
and land their cargo in a Confederate
port.
During the war, 355
of these vessels were sunk, l)urnod, or
otherwise destroyed, and 1,119 vessels were captured,

of which wore ociiiippod by the
poses.
many
Government
for blockading pur-
The
total
number
of vessels taken and destroyed was
1,504, valued in a low estimate, at $30,000,000.
CoNFEDEKATE Cruiees.
armed
Tlioso cruisors
were a
class
of
vessels sent out to destroy the
commerce of the Xorth.
They
were called " commerce destroyers," and cruised the seas,
generally the higlnvays of commerce, in search of the Union
merchantmen, ^vhich were
to be
found in
all
tho ])orts of tho

cruisers had no
officers
world when the war opened.

])orts to
The Confederate
prizes.
which they could take their
Their own
a
constituted their courts of admiralty.

fell
When
merchantman
into their hands,
it
was
set
on
fire
and burned.
The adventures
of these cruisers began with the escape of the
Sumter, which ran the l)lockade at the mouth of the Mississippi

in
June, 18G1, and entered upon a memorable career.

the
Slie
was
'.inder
command
of Captain
Semmes, who afterward became
'"amous as the
commander
of the Alabama.
After the Sumter had taken

tiont sent several vessels in
many
prizes, the Federal Govêrn-
search of her, but only one of these
was fast enough

'ral
to overtake her if siglited.
Finding that Fedleft the
cruisers were on his track. Captain
Semmes
Carib-
42

'J1ie
bean son and crossed the Atlantic.

terminated at Gibraltar.
for her; her
career of the Snmtcr
Two
Federal gnnboats were watching

to
commander was nnable
pnrchase any more
coal,
and thns the Snmter was
finally laid
np
at Gibraltar, while
to Southhampton,
Captain Semmes and some of his

England, in search of a better
depredations.
officers
went
vessel,
with which to renew their

a blockade-runner,
The Sumter afterward became

off the coast of
and
later
was wrecked
China.
Tiip]
Trent Affair,
at
1861.
The
San Jacinto, commanded

tlie
by Captain Wilkes, was one of the vessels in search of

ter.
Sum-
While
federate envoys were on their
Havana Captain Wilkes learned that two Conway to arrange, if j)ossible, for the
Slidell, a
recognition of the Confederate States.
They were Mr. John

Law, chosen
Britain.
vessel,
prominent Southern lawyer,
and Mr. James IMnrray Mason, the author of the Fugitive Slave
to represent the
Confederacy
at
France and Great
Escaping from Charleston on a dark night in a small
they arrived at Havana.
There they boarded the British

Captain Wilkes
mail-steamer Trent, and set out for Europe.
determined to intercept them.
When
the Trent arrived in the

her, he
Bahanui C^hannel, where he had been on the Avatch for
stopped the vessel, boarded her, seized the Confederate envoys
Nov.
8,
1861, over the protests of the English captain, and
carried
Jacinto.
them and
their secretaries as prisoners on board the

to Massachusetts,
The prisoners were taken
and there
confined in one of the forts of Boston harbor.
No
law would sanction the seizure of the envoys.
It
had not
NAVAL WAR.
been
lonf>-
43
tlio
sinrc Eno'lnnd
l>el(>ni;iiii;'
had da mod
i
siipprisod
ri,c:ht
to
SGarcli vessels
to another nation, and the United States
resisted
it
in the
War
of 1812.
England had formally given

Great
np the claim
in the
Webstcr-Ashl>nrton Treaty, 1842.
Britain denonneed this act of Wilkes with great vehemence,
demanded
the surrender of ]\ressrs.
Mason and
Slidell
and an
apology from the United States.
The House
of Representatives
extended a vote of thanks

the traitors
Slidell
to
Captain Wilk(>s for his arrest of
and Mason, and public clamor heartily
approved his course.

i>ritain
War seemed imminent

But
the wiser councils of
between Great
and the Xorth.

'^
Abraham
Lin-
coln
i)revailed.
^'
We
cannot abandon our own principles,"

to give these
said he.
We
shall
have
men up and
apologize for
what we have
done.''
Accordingly the envoys Avere released,
January
1,
1862, and set sail for Europe.

sides.
Public feeling raved a great deal on both

public believed that the
The English
to
American statesmen had yielded only

Avliile
avoid an open rupture,
the
Americans believed that Engforce.
land had
made an
offensive
and unwarranted display of
The Confederates had been
rejoicing over anticipated trouble
between the ^ôrth and England.

the whole trouble
left,
By
the return of the envoys
was
settled without
an appeal to arms, but
it
for a time, an impression of hatred on botli sides, which

class
was intensified by the sympathy manifested by the ruling

of
England for the Southern
cause.
The
Florida.
Great Britain became
the naval base of the
Confederacy.
Her
ship-builders were preparing a privateer
44
'
THE CIVIL WAR BT CAMPAIGNS.

as fast as they could work.
navy for the Confederacy
Nearly
all
the Confederate vessels of any service were constructed in English
dockyards.
first
The
privateer which hccame formidable to the
commerce
tlie
of the North
was the Florida,
called in her early history
Oreto.
The Florida was
built at Birkenhead, nominally for the

real des-
use of Italy.
tination,
go.
flag,
The American minister had learned her
and warned the British government against

sailed for
letting her
The Florida
Nassau (Bahamas) under the British
with every preparation for the reception of guns and

vessel,
munitions of war, which were brought on another

taken to Grand
and
Key
(an uninhabitable island of the Bahamas),

cruiser.
and equipped for the work of a
The British
and
flag
was
hauled down and the Confederate flag hoisted.
Within three
taken
months
slie
had burnt thirteen
vessels,
two
for
use as Confederate cruisers.
After roving the sea for more
than two years, she was captured by the United States cruiser
Wachusett in the neutral harbor of Bahia, Brazil.
Both
vessels
liours
had permission
to coal
to
remain in the harbor for forty-eight
and for
repairs.
The Wachusett crashed

her,
into the Florida

to surrender.
and opened She

Avas
fire
upon
which compelled her
towed out
to sea.
The capture
of the Florida
was
violation of the rights of neutral nations.
The Government
crew were
disavoAved the act of Collins,
commander
The
vessel
of
the Wachusett, and offered apologies to Brazil.

to be returned to ]3ahia, but she
and
''un-
was sunk by an
foreseen accident," near
Hampton Koads.
NAVAL WAR.
45
The
Alai'.aîa.
Of
all
the Confederate cruisers, the Ala-
bama was by
far the most famous.
She was built
at
Birkenhead,
near Liverpool, by the house of Laird, expressly for Confederate

service.
Wliilie
under process of construction she was called the

to sea
" 290."
federate
It
was not until she had put
and hoisted the Confull
flai>',
and Captain Semmes appeared on her deck in
Southern uniform, that she took the name Alabama.
During her career she captured

Tier plan
sixty-six
Northern
vessels.
was always the same.
Hoisting the British
flag,
and
(hM'oying lier intended victim within reach, she

raise the
would suddenly
Confederate colors, and capture her prize.

off in the
An
Ameri-
can captain saw far

vessel.
night the burning flames of a
Hastening
to rescue the
crew of the burning ship, he was

still
made prisoner by
tlie
Alabama, which
remained
in the
same
waters as the ship which he had burned.
The Alabama
any
did not do mueli fighting.
She preyed upon
mercliant vessels that could not fight.

in
conflict.
Only twice did she engage
The
first
time was with the Hatteras, a small
blockading ship, which was sunk in a short time.
The second
June
encounter took place

19,
size
off the coast
of Cherbourg, France,
18G4, with the United States warship Kearsarge, whose
and armament were about equal
to
her own.
In an hour the
Alabama was completely
shattered, and
went down with many
of her crew killed and wounded.

the Kearsarge
Iô one
was
killed
on board
mortally.
though three men were wounded, one
Captain Semmes and thirty-eight others were picked up by the

British ship Deerhound, that had been hovering around to wit-
46
ness the battle.

Instead of communicating with Captain John
A.
Win slow,
of the Kearsarge, after the rescue, the Deerhouncl

flight to
pursued a hasty
ror to
England.
The
destruction of the "terin the Nôrth,
American commerce" caused great rejoicing
but the escape of her
commander
took from the victory a reason
for the ha])piest a]:>plause.
^Ferrimac and Îonitor, Battle between,
March
9,
1862.
After the aljundonnient of Xorfolk by the Federals, the Confederates took possession of the navy yard, and began to
make
the
use of what had not been consumed by the flames.

ships burned
hull
sel
Among
The
was the frigate Merrimac.

boilers
The lower part
of her
ves-
and engines and

raised,
were practically unhurt.

as
was
and rebuilt
an ironclad.
Her
sloping sides
were covered with a double coating of iron plates, each two

inches thick.
to the
cast-iron
ram
projecting four feet was attached
bow of
the vessel, which was rechristened the Virginia,
by the Confederates.
The news
the
of the consti'uction of this formidable ironclad led

to exert
first
Government
every effort to complete the Monitor in
season to meet the
movements of the Merrimac.

to
Corre-
sponding
efforts
were made by the Confederates

first,
have the
latter vessel
completed
to
make
a raid
upon the wooden
vessels of the
United States which were blockading the Chesa-
peake.
This extra effort resulted in preparing the ^ferrimac

little
for use one day in advance of her
antagonist.
at that time,
In the harbor
off
Fortress
Monroe
St.
were the
Union
frigates Minnesota,
Roanoke,
Lawrence, and several
NAVAL WAR.
gimboats.
47
Off [N'ewport News, seven miles above, which was
strongly fortified by a Federal garrison, were anchored the

frigate Congress
ried
and the sloop Cumberland.
These vessels
car-
heavy batteries and were excellent vessels of their kind, but

to
were not calculated

he could not be
stand against an ironclad.

these
Realizing that
harmed by
war
vessels, the
commander
of
the Merrimao, on the 8th

into the midst of the
struction.
day of March, 1862, steamed leisurely

vessels
Union
and began the work of
de-
Steering straight for the Cumberland and Congress,
he struck the former vessel in the side at right angles, and

a great opening into which the water poured.
of the
made
The brave crew
Cumberland continued the unequal

battle.
contest with as
much
heroism as was ever seen in naval
Driven from the lower
deck by the water, they continued to operate the pivot guns on

the upper deck, until the vessel
flying.
went down with
colors
still
The Congress grounded
and, in her helpless condition,
she was compelled to surrender, and was consigned to the flames
by the Confederates.
The ebb
tide
and approaching night
pre-
vented the Merrimac from making an attack on the remaining
Union
to
vessels, so she retired to
SewelFs Point, a few miles away,
anchor for the night, with the expectation of completing the

in the morning.
It is probably
work
no exaggeration
to say that
the Confederate ironclad could have destroyed all the

vessels at that
wooden
time in the Federal navy, had they been within
reach,
and unsupported by fort or monitor.

9 p. M. the
At
of
Monitor made
fleet.
its
appearance.
An atmosphere
gloom pervaded the
The pygmy
aspect of the ^^cheese-
48
box," as the jMonitor was called, did not inspire
much
confidence
among
those
who had
seen the destruction of the Cumberland

disaster,
and the Congress.
She took a station amid wreck and
near the Minnesota, which Avas aground.
On Sunday
to
to
morning,
the
her,
March
9,
the
Merrimac moved from anchor

little
attack
Minnesota.
The
Monitor moved forward

fled.
meet
while the wooden vessels turned and
Then commenced one

It revolu-
of the greatest naval combats recorded in history.

tionized the navies of the world,
and introduced a
vessels.
class of iron-
clads in place of the vulnerable
wooden
and
The
vessel
conflict
was
long, furious,
at close quarters
neither
was very seriously injured.
The Merrimac withdrew,
however, to I^Torfolk in a leaking condition, while the Monitor
remained in possession of the
field.
The former guarded

Chesapeake.
the the
James
river,
the latter protected the
On
evacuation of ISTorfolk by the Confederates, in May, 18G2, the
Merrimac was destroyed.

sea whil(^ on her
The Monitor went down
in a storm at
way
to Charleston,
and only a few of her crew
were saved.
The Monitor was designed by Captain John

was a native of Sweden.
Ericsson, Avho
of
He
served in the
army and navy
that country, pursued the profession of an engineer in England,
and came
to
America
in
1839. The Monitor consisted of a
small iron Indl 124 feet long, 34 feet wide.

hull
On
the top of the
was a boat-shaped
raft,
covered with iron plates.
On
the
top of the deck there was
mounted
a turret, 20 feet in diameter

riv-
and nine feet high, covered with eight one-inch iron plates
NAVAL WAR.
eted together.
49
which, as the
She carriod two ll-inph
.^-nns,
turret revolved, could be used to fire iu any direction.
The
Merrimac carried ten guns.
The Monitor was

when news
of the
bnilt at
êw York
to
for coast defense, but
forini(1al)l('-
cliaracter of tlie Mcn-riniac
was
received, her construction

ironclad.
was hastened
meet
tlie
Confederate
The voyage
to the
Chesapeake was a tempestuous one.

after an exciting trip,
at a distance,
slie
Agaiii and again she
was ahnost sunk, but

booming cannons
in wliicli she lioard the
and saw
the sky
lit
up by the burning C<mgress,
entered TTamptun
Roads
in time to
end the (h^structive career of the Merrimac.
CHAPTEK
IV.
COAST OPERATIONS.
Hatteras Inlet Surrendered, August
Fortress
29,
1861.
Gen.
from
Benjamin F. Butler and Commodore Stringham were
sent
Monroe with sealed orders, on an expedition against

Butler was in
Hatteras Inlet.
command
of the land forces, and
Stringham directed the naval expedition.

a series of
This was the

coast.
first of
movements against the Southern
Hatteras
Inlet
commanded
The
the entrance to Pamlico Sound, whose waters
became a favorite rendezvous for traders engaged in blockaderunning.

Inlet
was defended bj Forts Hatteras and Clark.
The bombardment
of these
was commenced August
28, 1861,
and renewed the next day, when the Confederates hoisted the
white
flag.
The
secrecy of the expedition had been so well kept,
that for several days the blockade-runners, seeking Confederate

shelter, fell
an easy prey to the Union troops who had taken
possession of the forts.
The 615
prisoners
who
fell into
Union
o:f
hands were taken to 'New York harbor.
The commands
Hawkins and Weber were
left to garrison the forts,
and Gen
Butler returned to the N'orth and commenced the organization

of an expedition directed against ISTew Orleans.
Confederate Attack upon Fort Pickens, October, 1861. At the breaking-out of the war, Pensacola was seized b}^ the
Confederates without a struggle.
(50)
Lieutenant Slenuner was
COAST OPERATIONS.
51
ordered to surrender Fort Pickens, on Santa Kosa Island, com-
manding
of this
fall of
the
main entrance
the fort
to
Pensacola harbor.
to the
By
the fidelity
officer,
was saved
Union.
Soon after the

to the defenses
Fort Sumter, reinforcements were sent
of Pensacola.
Gen. Braxton Bragg assembled a formidable
force there during the early part of the war, and threatened an
attack
upon Fort Pickens.

left
Finally after months of delay a

9,
Confederate force
Pensacola on the night of Oct.
18G1,
and, crossing the bay,
made an
attack
upon Fort Pickens.
The
movement was
the island.
unsuccessful, and the invaders were driven from
Expedition against Port Royal and the Sea Islands,
October and November, 1861.

Roads for the Southern
On
October 29th a naval

left
and military expedition numbering 10,000 men

coast.
Hampton
(not Will-
Thomas W. Sherman
iam T. Sherman) commanded the land forces and Commodore

S.
F.
Dupont was
in
command
of the
fleet.
After a stormy pas-
sage, in
which four transports were
lost
and two disabled, they

Fort Walker, on Hil-
arrived at Port Royal, South Carolina.

ton Head,
lina,
was captured by the
fleet,
and Beaufort, South Caro-
was abandoned by the enemy.
By
the combined efforts of
the fleet and army, the whole chain of islaRds which

coast of South Carolina
form
the
and Georgia
fell into
Federal possession.
The Fall of Roanoke

out early in the year 1862.
Island, 1862.
Another land
was
and
naval force, against Roanoke Island,
ISTorth Carolina,
fitted
Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside and
52

L.
Com.
M. Goldsborough were
in
command
of the 12,000
men
sent on this expedition.
Gen. H. A. Wise commanded the Condelay was occasioned bj the fact that
federate forces.
Much
many
of the transports were of too great draft to permit a
passage through the shallow waters of the Sound.

afforded the
This delay
enemy an opportunity
to strengthen the fortress.
At
length, after the loss of several vessels,

to
which were grounded
and wrecked by a storm, an entrance

effected.
Pamlico Sound was

to Elizabeth City,
The Confederate
fleet
was pursued
and destroyed.
The
forts of
Roanoke Island were taken, Feb.
7th and 8th, after some desperate fighting.
The Union men

of
at-
waded waist-deep through

the batteries.
pond of water that protected one

their
The Confederates abandoned
work and
tempted
to retreat, but
were overtaken, and 2,500 were comloss
pelled to surrender.
The Federal
was 50
killed
and 250
wounded.
Edenton, Wintom, and
yielded to
many
of the settlements on the
Sound
Union
authority.
Newborn, one of the most imporafter a
tant seaports of
North Carolina, was taken March 14th,

Beaufort yielded without resistance.
vigorous defense.
Fort
Macon, after a bombardment, surrendered April 25th.

the whole of the coast of
Nearly
North Carolina thus lay
at the
mercy
of the victors.
ate ports
The
chief result
was the closing of the Confeder-
and the suppression of their commerce.
Gen. Burnside's forces were eventually taken, for the most

part, to Alexandria, to aid Gen.
Pope
left in
in his
campaign against
of the depart-
Lee.
Gen. John G. Foster was
command
COAST OrERATTONS.
inent of
53
North Carolina, with barely
sufficient forces to hold the
points which had been taken.
Soon after the recovery of Port Royal and the adjacent

ands, Gen.
isl-
Quincy A. Gillmore was
directed to
move
against
Fort Pulaski, on Cockspur Island.
After a bombardment of a
day and a
half, the fort surrendered, April 11, 1862.
Gen.
Hunter, who succeeded to
the command of Sherman, on
May
This
9th proclaimed South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to be
under martial law, and the slaves of these States

declaration was overruled
free.
by President Lincoln,
as
was Fre-
mont's proclamation in Missouri.
Gen. Wright in Florida, March, 1862.
While Gillmore
St.
was before Fort Pulaski, Commodore Dupont and Gen. H. G.
Wright were making conquests in Florida.

Jacksonville,
Augustine,
and other places
wêre
abandoned by the enemy

Pensacola was evacuated,
on the approach of the Union
forces.
and everything of a combustible character was burned before

the departure of Gen. Jones,
its
commander.
A strong Union
A
sentiment was manifest in the State after the
departure of the 10,000
men who
joined the Confederate army.
convention was called to assemble at Jacksonville, April 10,
1862, to organize a Union State Government.

those
To
the dismay of
who were engaged

his forces
called.
in
it.
Gen. Wright prepared to with-
draw
tion
two days before the day on which the conven-
was
In consequence, the Union feeling made
little
manifestation, and the Confederate supremacy was maintained

to the close of the war.
54
the civil war by campaigns.
Expedition into
ruary, 1862.
New Mexico
by the Confederates, FebSibley led an expedition,
The Confederate Gen.
early in 1862, against the Federal forts of

forts being
lip
New
Mexico, these
under the command
of Gen. Canby.
He
He
advanced
the
Kio Grande with considerable physical
difficulty,
and
defeated Canby's regulars in several combats.
found that
;
he could not maintain himself in that desert region
so he
abandoned Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and other places he had

taken, and condncted a disastrous retreat.
Movement against Charleston,

spring of 1863.
1863.
Charleston
re-
mained in undisputed possession of the Confederates
until the
The engagements
of the turret monitor led to
the belief that a fleet of these could force a passage through
Charleston harbor.
Accordingly, in April, Admiral Dupont

fleet
and Gen. Hunter led a

experiment.
of seven of these ironclads in the
The
vessels carried
32 guns; the opposing forts

Torpedoes and other
ob-
possessed an aggregate of 300 guns.

structions were placed in the harbor.
The heavy
to return.
fire
concenof
trated
upon the
vessels compelled
them
One
them
was sunk after being struck 99 times, of which 19 were below

the water-line.
All the rest were more or less damaged.
The
forts suffered but little
damage.
All effort to pass them was
now abandoned, and

and adjoining
operations were directed against the harbor
islands.
Gen. Hunter was superseded by Gen.
Q. A. Gillmore, and Admiral John A. Dahlgren soon relieved
Admiral Dupont.
set
Gen. Gillmore and Admiral Dahlgren at once

to a systematic
on foot upcrations louking
campaign against
COAST OPERATIONS.
65
effected
to
Fort Sumter and Charleston.

Island in July, and the
A landing was
made upon
it,
on Morris
enemy was driven
Fort WagTier.
Several fnrious assaults were
at great cost to the
Union arms,
as they left
1,500 dead and wounded upon the

garrison, however, evac-
treacherous sands.
The Confederate
uated the island in September.
The army and

and the other
the fleet opened fire
upon Charleston, Sumter,

and many
forts.
Fort Sumter was practically demolished.

city of Charleston,
Many
shells wêre
thrown into the
buildings greatly injured by the slow
bombardment which was

sus-
kept up to the end of the year.
Further operations were
pended, and Charleston remained in possession of the enemy

until the approach of
Sherman's victorious hosts in the spring
of 1865.
Mobile Bay, Summer of 1864.
Mobile was
the only sea-
port of importance on the coast of the eastern part of the Gulf.
There were several channels in the bay, the entrances
to
which
were protected by Forts Morgan, Gaines, and Powell.

coast
The
was of such
a character as to
make
blockade-runninc^ easv.
block-
and many blockade-runners escaped the vigilance of the

ading
fleet
by passing along the shallow waters of the
coast.
The
city of
Mobile became an important rendezvous for their

fall of
traflic.
After the
Vicksburg, Farragut was directed, in June,
1864, to prepare his vessels for an attack on Mobile bay.

dition to the forts the bay Avhich
In adone
v^^^
o'''oon-
was defended by four
vessels,
was the ironclad Tennessee, the most formidable

Torpedoes and obstructi
-
State
ever built by the Confederates.
rebellion,
been placed in the Avater.
56

Farragut arranged his fourteen wooden
vessels,
two abreast,
lashed them together, supported on their flanks by four monitors.
As they neared
the forts every

fleot
gun
that could be brought

fortli its echoes.
to
bear upon the approaching

fire
thundpred
The concentrated
forts,
from the
vessels
was directed toward the

to
and many of the gunners were either killed or driven
cover.
The monitor Tecumseh,

Except
in the lead,
was struck by a
torpedo and sunk.

passing the forts
this single loss, the fleet succeeded in
and obstructions without serious damage.

tlian a
No
sooner was the combat with the forts at an end,
new
one began with the Tennessee.

of Fort
fleet.
Stoaming from the protection

vessels
Morgan, she was met by the
from the Union
She was pounded by the guns from the monitors, and

at full speed
rammed
by the larger
hopeless.
vessels, in a terrific struggle,
until her case

left
became
She raised the white
flag
and
Farragut in control of Mobile bay.
Five thousand troops

to the
under General Gordon Granger had already been landed

rear of Fort Gaines, which surrendered
Augnst Tth; and Fort
Morgan on
the 23d.
'No immediate attempt was
made
for the
capture of ]\robilo city, for the surrender of the forts served the
purpose of the Government,

ners.
to close the
bay
to blockade-run-
Operations were again resumed, in the spring of 1865, by
General Canby and Admiral Thatcher, and after a month the

defenses held by General Taylor were taken, April 12, 1865,
^
the
Union Army entered the
city,
ignorant of the fact that
^rmy had surrendered three days before,

set
on
f Ov
CHAPTER
V.
WAR
IN MISSOURI.
l^Gl.
The Oroantzation of thh Armies,

The Legislature refused
to pass
In Missouri,
were
as
in several slave States, a majority of the people
loyal.
in-
an ordinance of secession, but
vested the Governor, Claiborne F. Jackson, with despotic power.
He was
federacy.
determined
to take the State out of the
Union, and
used every means at his
command
in the interests of the
Con-
He
established
camps of instruction
St.
in different parts
of the State.
One near
Lonis he named
Camp
Jackson.
About twelve hundred men stationed here and armed by the

Confederate Government were surprised on the morning of
May
10, 1861,
surrounded by Captain Nathaniel Lyon with
6,000 men, and the whole garrison was compelled to surrender.
A mob
following Lyon's
men heaped
insult
and then violence

assailants,
upon them.
One regiment
finally fired
upon the
killing twenty-two persons.
Governor Jackson was active in carrying out his designs

Jefferson City.
at
He
called for 50,000 State militia to repel
Federal invasions, and divided the State into nine military

districts.
Sterling Price,
who was appointed commander

commanding
of
the State forces, urged officers
in the districts to
make
ville
haste to organize the militia, and assemble them at Boon-
and Lexington.
Confederate force entered the State

to assist in the (57)
from Arkansas and Texas
work of
rebellion.
58
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
troops were being as-
BooNviLLE AND Carthage.

sembled at
tlie
Union
St.
Federal arsenal at
Louis under the

little
command
of General Lyon.
ration.
He
gave the enemy
time for prepa-
Steaming up the Missouri from

found the Governor had
the l^th of June,
St.
Louis to Jefferson
adherents at BoonBoonville, where
of Colonel
after
a
City, he
ville.
fled to his
On
Lyon reached
some
tAvo or three
thousand men, under the

assembled.
command
Marmaduke were
sharp
They were dispersed
engagement,
and
fled
toward the southwest, through

as they went.
Warsaw, receiving reinforcements

Colonel Franz Sigel, a veteran
German
officer,
had been
dis-
patched Avith 1,500

to
men
farther south.
He
had pushed on near
Carthage, hoping to prevent a junction between Jackson and

his Confederate brigadiers
some other forces which

ing to him.
were hurry5th, in
to
spirited
engagement took
place,
July
which the flanking cavalry of the enemy compelled Sigel

retreat to his
baggage
trains.
The Confederate
loss
was much
greater than the Federal.
Jackson's forces were greatly aug-
mented during the night and morning by the arrival of Price

with his Arkansas and Texas troops.
Sigel, thus greatly out-
numbered, continued his retreat
to Springfield, Avhere
General
Lyon joined and outranked him.
The
State convention reassembled at Jefferson City July
20th, and by a vote of 52 to 28 declared the offices of Governor,
Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, and of legislators, vacant because of the acts of "treason of those
acts
officials.
Their
opposed
to the
Federal Government Avere declared null and
WAR
void. IsTew officers
IN MISSOURI.
59
were elected and inaugurated, who admin-
istered the affairs of the State.
Wilson's Creek, August

C.
0,
1^61.
Major General
Louis until the
John
Fremont was appointed

9,
to the
command
St.
of the Western
2.^th.
Department July
Efforts were
but did not reach
made
to obtain reinforcements for

it
Lyon, hut the

all
disaster at Bull
Run made
necessary to send
aid to that
quarter.
Meantime
the Confederate troops were forming, and
advancing upon General Lyon in two columns.
Lyon
deter-
mined
to strike a
blow
before they could perfect a junction.
A
His
skirmish occurred at
Dug
Spring, in which he had the advan-
tage; but he could not prevent the columns

force
from uniting.
numbered 5,500, while the
enemy numbered
fell
12,000.
en-
Even with this disparity of numbers he

camped
at Wilson's Creek,
upon the foe

battle,
August 10th.
This
next to
Bull Rim, was the most important of the year 1861.

u'as twice
Lyon
wounded, once in the head

In a
his horse
was shot from

Second
under him.
final charge, as the Colonel of the
Kansas regiment lay severely wounded. General Lyon headed

the column, calling out "
Come
on, brave
men
I will lead you."
At that moment a
bullet struck
him
;
in the breast, and the
heroic leader fell mortally
wounded
but the enemy was driven
from the
field.
Sigel,
who
assaulted the Confederate rear, had
met a
repulse.
With
the loss of their leader, and in the face
of a great disparity of numbers, the
Union
troops, having
made
an effective assault, retreated from the contest, as the enemy
were again forming
to
renew the
battle.
The Confederates
60
WAR
IN
MISSOURI.
61
claimed the victory, as they held the
field
and took
six guns, but

at-
they had been so severely punished that no pursuit was

tempted.
Each army had
lost
more than a thousand
in killed,
wounded, and missing.
Major Sturgis assumed command

conducted the retreat.
of the
Union
troops,
and
The Fall of Lexington,

ington,
Mo., Sept. 20, 1861.
General
Price moved from Wilson's Creek battle-field northward to Lex-
where Colonel James A. Mulligan was garrisoned with
a force
numbering 3,500.
The attempt by Fremont The water-supply was
to reinforce
Mulligan did not succeed.
cut off from
the beleaguered troops, who, with parched lips, repelled repeated

assaults.
The enemy constructed movable breastworks
of hemp,
which they rolled before them as they advanced toward the
Union
troops.
Price had increased his forces until they reached

this
18,000.
With
number he appeared before Lexington and

upon the
spirit.
little
opened a
terrific
fire
Union
garrison, which
answered with determined

hausted
all
The Federal
all rations,
troops had ex-
ammunition, consumed
and had been
without water for days.

the
Finally, after three days of fighting,

to yield to
Union troops were compelled
an unconditional
surrender, September 20, 1861.
Movement of Officers and Armies.

St.
Fremont
at once left
officer
Louis with the intention of attacking Price, but that
retreated after the capture of Col. Mulligan, to the southwest
part of the State, where he was rejoined by Gen. McCulloch,
who had
separated from
him
after the battle of Wilson's Creek.
62
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
Fremont proclaimed martial law

promised freedom
in Missouri,
August
31,
and
take
to the slaves of all persons
who should
It
up arms against the United States Government.

that this proclamation
States, especially
was feared
would lead many Unionists in the border

to side
Kentucky,
with the Confederacy,
if
indorsed by the Nâtional administration.
President Lincoln
issued an order modifying Fremont's proclamation so as to

restrict it to the slaves
who were
actually engaged in rebellion
by the direction or persuasion of their masters.

After organizing
liis
army, now numbering 30, 000, Fremont

foe.
marched toward Springfield in pursuit of the

tween his army and
the 2d of
lieved
tlie
battle be-
Price forces became imminent.
But on
November an order from Gen.

his
Scott arrived, which re-
Fremont of
command
of
and placed Gen. Hunter in

for the purpose of securing
in Missouri
his place.
The removal
Fremont
more
efficient service
caused
much complaint
and
throughout the country among the anti-slavery men.
It proved
an unfortunate
affair, as
Gen. Hunter with a force superior in
number and
out a battle.
discipline to his opponents, retreated to Rolla with-
The campaign, inaugurated with great expense,

and the southwest part of the State was
was
a flat failure,
abandoned, for the time, to Confederate pillage and guerrilla

outrages.
Gen. Hunter was superseded in the
command
of the Departof
ment of Missouri by Henry W. Halleck, on the 12th

ber, 1861.
Novem-
Gen. Price pushed his force northward unresisted.
He
en-
WAR
IN MISSOURI.
63
Lexington,
tered and occupied Springfield,
Osceola,
burned
Warsaw,
and
established
Confederate
supremacy over the
greater portion of the southern and western parts of the State.
At length Gen. Pope, who had conducted
a successful
campaign
in com-
against the guerrillas in northern Missouri, but
now
mand
of the central district of the State,
moved
against the
enemy.
detachment of Pope's forces, under Jefferson
Davis, surprised the enemy's
camp
at Milford, near
Warrenssup-
burg, and took over 1,000 prisoners and

plies.
much baggage and
Before Price had time to concentrate his forces, he had
been so roughly handled that he retreated rapidly southward
through Springfield and across the Arkansas
line.
Gen. Pope was then sent with a land force to cooperate with
Commodore Foote
No. 10.
tion
in the reduction of 'New
Madrid and Island
He
had thus commenced the building of that reputa-
which soon placed him in a position in which he showed

little ability as
but
commander
of a great army.
Battle of Pea Eidge, IVIarch

ber,
7-8, 1862.
Late
in
Decem-
Gen.
S.
R. Curtis was placed in
command
to the
of E'ational
in
troops in southwestern Missouri.
He
advanced from Rolla
pursuit of Price,
tains,
who
retreated before
him
Boston Moun-
Arkansas.
Gen. Albert Pike, with a number of Cherokee
Indians and Gen. Benj. McCulloch in
command
of a division
of Texas and Arkansas troops, joined the forces of Price, in-
creasing
them
to about
20,000; and Gen. Earl
Yan Dorn was

Curtis
sent to take
command
of the whole Confederate force.
had but
little
more than one-half the force which opposed him.
64
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
lie fell
Van Dorn
who
by
resolved to give battle, and
upon the advance

Sigel,
division of Federal troops at Bentonville, under Gen.
succeeded in conducting a masterly retreat until reinforced
t':e
main body.
Then, in a severe engagement March 7th
ami sth, the Confederates were driven to the ravines, and finally
put to rout.
The National
loss in this
engagement, called by
the Confeder-
the Federals the battle of

ates
I']lk
Pea Kidge (named by

killed,
Horn), was over 1,300

loss
The Confederate
was heavy, but the numbers are unknown.
GcERKiLLA Warfare.
No
important military operations
were undertaken in Missouri and Arkansas for some time after

tlje
engagement
at
Pea Eidge.
The more important

tlie
events
I'artlier
East drained the resources of
West, and led to a
withdrawal of the troops from
this State.
Van Dorn and

army
Price
were called
to Tennessee,
and partici]jated in the engagement

to assist
around Corinth.
Curtis sent a large part of his
in the siege of Corinth,
and led the
rest in a
march
across the
State of Arkansas to Helena, on the Mississippi.
The withdrawal
guerrilla bands.
of these forces encouraged the formation of

in the interior of
They became very numerous
Missouri, Avhere they carried on a desperate and sanguinary

guerrilla warfare.
J.
The encounters were many and

left in
fierce.
Gen.
M.
Schofield,
who was
command
in Missouri, organ-
ized the loyal citizens into a State militia.
He
had 50,000
names on
his rolls, of
whom
20,000 were ready for effective
service by July, ISGi!.
WAR
IN MISSOURI.
65
a large force in
The Confederate Gen. Hindman gathered

Arkansas in the
fall of the
year 1862.
His troops were poorly

a general
armed and
disciplined, but
commanded by
who was
afforded
determined to engage in
battle.
The opportunity was
him
at Prairie Grove, in
December, where he was defeated by
a force
much
The
smaller than his own, under Generals Blunt and

losses
Herron.
were about equal on each
side.
The Con-
federates retreated south to the protecting barriers of the Bos-
ton Mountains.
QuANTRELL Kaid
After the
to their
fall of
ON"
Lawrence,
Katt.,
Aug.
21, 1863.
Vicksburg,
many Confederate
soldiers returned
homes in Missouri.
season of renewed activity was
Imparted to the guerrilla bands that continued to roam about in

their plundering excursions.
One
of the most atrocious outof these bands led by

threat-
rages of the
war was committed by one
the notorious Quantrell,
who had
for
some weeks been
ening various Kansas towns.
Assembling about 300 picked and
well-mounted followers, at a place of rendezvous near the State

line,
and
skillfully avoiding several detaeliments sent in pursuit
of him, he crossed into Kansas, and pushed directly for

rence.
Law-
He
21.
entered the defenseless city in the early morning of

Stores and
August
banks were robbed,
185 buildings
burned, and 150 to 200 inhabitants murdered in cold blood.
The work was completed

band were
in three or four hours
and the marau-
ders were on the retreat, pursued so closely that

of the
killed.
more than 100
66
Confederate Reverses.
Confederate Gen.
Gen. Holmes's
attack on Helena,
4tli
;
Ark., was gallantly repulsed by Gen. Prentiss July
and the
Marmaduke met
reverses at Springfield, Mo.,

at
January
8tli; at Hartsville,
January llth; and
Cape Girar-
deau, April 26tli, 1863.
Price's Last Raid in Missouri, 1864.
The
last
important
operation in the West was a raid conducted by Gen. Sterling
R. Price through Arkansas and Missouri.

called the " Price Raid."
In the West
it is
Several engagements between his
raiders
and Federal authority occurred in Arkansas.
Price
then, organizing his forces to the
number At
of about 15,000, into
three divisions, entered Missouri
and ravaged the State for two

Pilot
months
September and October.

The
Knob he
attacked
a small Federal force, which, after administering severe pun-
ishment to him from behind intrenchments, was forced to

treat.
re-
raiders at once threatened the depots at St. Louis,

to
Rolla,
and Jefferson, and for a week or more they seemed
have their own way.

Gen.
W.
S.
Rosecrans,
now
in
command
of the Department
of the Missouri at St. Louis, sent Pleasonton's cavalry and the
Kansas militia under Blunt and Curtis,

veterans.
to cope
with Price's
Engagements occurred
and Westport.
at St. Louis, Jefferson City, to
Independence,
flight
The marauders were put
southward.
They
crossed into
Kansas near West Point,
Mo., closely pursued in their southern movement by the Union

troops.
There was an engagement
at the crossing of the
Marais
des Cygnes (called the Osage, farther down-stream) river, and
WAR
IN MISSOURI.
Oi
on Oct. 25th the Confederates were overtaken, and the

ive battle of
decis-
Mine Creek was fought on Kansas

lost
soil,
in Linn
county.
ers,
The enemy
nine pieces of artillery, and 800 prisonCabell,
among whom were Generals Marmaduke,

was
and Slemalso
mons, the latter being mortally wounded.

of the Confederate army,
killed.
General Graham,
The pursuit was
con-
ducted with such vigor that the enemy abandoned the project of
attacking Fort Scott, fled from Kansas, and soon after departed
from the State of Missouri with
his forces greatly demoralized,

to
and his army reduced by captures and dispersions

5,000 men.
perhaps
Most of the noted

souri,
guerrilla bands followed Price out of Misto
and their raids and depredations came
an end.
little
These operations, of a secondary nature, bore

to the general strategy of the
relation
main campaigns.
Their chief
importance consisted in the moral weight added to the Federal

cause by the preservation of national authority in this section,
and in the protection of the rights of loyal
citizens.
CHAPTEK
VI.
GRANT'S CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST.

Bei.mont, Grant's First Battle, IsTovember
Gen. Ulysses
S.
7,
1861.
Grant,
who was
in
command
of Cairo,
moved
gun-
down
the
Mississippi
with 3,000
men
for a demonstration
against Belmont, Mo., opposite Colnmbus.

boats accompanied the transports.
Two Union
These engaged the batteries

side,
of Colnmbus, while the troops landed on the Missouri
Xov.
7,
1861.
After a spirited
conflict, the troops
fought their
way through
driving the
the abatis surrounding Belmont, and succeeded in
enemy over
the bluff to the bank of the river.

sent
Heavy reinforcements were

troops off
pel
from Columbus
to cut Grant's
from
their gunboats,
and with superior numbers com-
them
to surrender.
His exhausted troops valiantly fought
their
way back
to the boats, and re-embarked for Cairo.

loss
The
was
Confederate loss was more than 600, while the Union
much
less.
Battle
eral
o'f
Mill Springs, January

to
19, 1862.
While GenHenry and

forces
Grant was preparing
move
against Forts
Donelson, General Thomas,
who commanded
the
Union
in eastern Tennessee, began operations against the extreme east
of the Confederate line of defense.
Gen. Felix K. Zollicofler
was
at the
head of the enemy's
forces.
His principal camp was

river, in a thinly settled
at Mill Springs,
on the Cumberland
(68)
ORANt's CÂMl'AKrN
IN
TIIK
WKST.
69
and poorly
riiltivatorl
region.
One small steamboat brought

to feed the
supplies up the river
from Nashville,
army, which
numbered 5,000 men.

Gen. Geo. B. Crittenden joined Zollicoffer, and superseded
him
in
command.
it,
Fearing an attack from Thomas, he resolved

sallied forth to surprise several
to anticipate
and
Union
regi-
ments
at Logan's Crossroads.
The Confederates were The engagement
utterly
defeated Jan. 19, 1862. Gen. Zollicoffer was killed.

loss
The Union
wâs called
was 250
to the
enemy's 500.
by the Confederates Fishing Creek;

Springs or Logan's Crossroads.
across the
by the Federals,
Mill
Crittenden withdrew his troops
Cumberland, abandoning eastern Kentucky.
In the early part of January, Gen. James A. Garfield defeated

the Confederates,
commanded by General Marshall,
at Preston-
burg,
Ky.
6,
Fort Henry, Feb.

tucky
line,
1862.
A few miles south

Cumberland
of the Ken-
the Tennessee and
rivers
approach
within eleven miles of each other.

erected Fort Henry, on the east
The Confederates had

and Fort Donelson, on the
its
bank of the Tennessee, com-
manding
the passage of that stream,
west bank of the Cumberland, controlling road connected the two

forts,
waters.
dirt
by means of which the garrisons
were expected
to support each other if assailed.
To Gen.
Grant, vdth the aid of
Commodore Foote and
his
seven gunboats, was assigned, by order of Gen. Halleck, the task

of taking these forts.
Leaving Cairo with some 15,000 troops
on steam transports, they moved up the Ohio and Tennessee to
70
BY CAMPAIGNS. THE CIVIL WAR
71
within four miles of Fort Henry.
the
The
troops were landed, and

to
main
force under Gen. J. A.

to
McClernand moved south

bombardment
occupy the road leading
Fort Donelson.
Commodore Foote
of
steamed up the river and commenced a

the fort.
silenced,
fierce
In
less
than two hours the guns of the enemy were

fort compelled to surrender.
and the
Gen. Tilghman,
previously
sent
in
Confederate commander at Fort Henry, had

nearly
all
of his troops under Col.

to
Heiman, who was second
command,
Fort Donelson, a portion of
whom
were overtaken
Gen. Tilgh-
by McClernand's cavalry, and twenty captured.
man and
about one hundred
men who remained
in the fort, sur-
rendered Feb. 6th, 1862, while the rest escaped to Fort Donelson.
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, perhaps the most promising of

the Southern
officers,
was in command in the West, with headGen. Buell lay in Johnston's front.
quarters at Bowling Green.
Stjreender of Fort Donelson, Feb. 16, 1862.

Clellan was
the
still
While Mc-
engaged in
drilling, organizing
and disciplining
Army
of the Potomac, the
army
in the
West commenced
active operations.
After the capture of Fort Henry, Grant preIt
pared to invest Fort Donelson.
was here that Grant earned

Fort Donelson was strongly
his first laurels as a staunch soldier.

fortified
and garrisoned.
The reinforcement from Fort Henry
increased the numbers to about 21,000 men.
From
his victory
on the Tennessee, Grant moved against Fort Donelson with

15,000 troops, and appeared before
dore Foote steamed
it
on Feb. 12th.
Commo-
down
the Tennessee and
up
the Ohio and
Cumberland, and appeared before Fort Donelson with his gun-
72
boats and transports on the evening of Feb. 13th, bringing
more
than 10,000 reinforcements.
The gunboats had done
so well at Fort
Henry
that they were

so the next
again permitted to open the assanlt.
They did
day, but, after desperate fighting, they were forced to retire
from the range of the
fort.
Two
of
tlio
vessels
were disabled
and others were badly damaged.

a vigorous
The land
forces then began
movement against
the place.
For two days there was

to cut their
severe fighting.
An
effort
by the Confederates
way
out had failed.
The Union
lines wêre closing in
upon them.
The weather, which was pleasant and mild when the campaign
commenced, became inclement and
cold.
Rain began
to fall,
followed by snow, which was accompanied by intense cold.

suffering on either side
The
was fearful and
almost universal, as
the soldiers lay in their snow-clad beds without fire or tent.
Great preparations were made by the Union forces for a concentrated attack on the morning of the 16th.
of the Confederate situation brought a letter
The
hopelessness
from Gen. Buck-
ner asking for terms of surrender.
Gen. Grant replied in these
words " No terms, except an uncondiiinnal and immediate surrender,
can he accepted.
I propose
to
move immediately upon

same day (Sunday) un-
your ivories"
The garrison was surrendered

conditionally.
the
The capture included about 15,000 men, 65 The Confederates had

lost
cannon, and 1,T60 small arms.
about
grant's campaign in the west.
73
2,500 in killed, wounded, and missing, while Grant's loss was

2,041.
Gen. John B. Floyd was
in
command
at
Fort Donelson.
He
had been Secretary of
War
under Buchanan, and was under

Fearing
to surrender the
indictment at Washington.
himself,
lie
command
resigned in favor of Gen. Pillow,
who
for like reason
turned the
command
over to Gen. Buckner.
Both Floyd and
Pillow escaped up the river on two Confederate steamers, and

left
Buckner
to surrender the garrison.
Floyd
filled the
steames-
ers
with men, estimated at 3,000, of his

ISTashville.
own
brigade,
who
caped with him to

cavalry.
Col, Forrest also escaped, with
800
The conduct
of Floyd in deserting his troops
was on
a par with his treachery as Secretary of
War
in supplying the
South with arms and ammunition.
For
his conduct at Fort
Donelson he was reprimanded by Jefferson Davis, and dismissed
from
service.
The
It
victory
was of great importance

rivers,
to the iNTational arms.
opened up two navigable
and
left the
enemy no
strong-
hold in Kentucky and northern Tennessee.

federate lines, extending
The whole Coneast to
from Bowling Green on the

to be
Columbus on the
west,
had
abandoned.
new
line of de-
fense was selected, along the
Charleston & Memphis
Railroad.
As Grant marched toward Fort Donelson, Gen. Buell moved

against Gen. Johnston, whose forces at Bowling Green were greatly diminished by the detachment sent to Gen. Floyd at
Donelson.
Bowling Green was evacuated by Johnston, who

and soon continued
his
re-
treated to Nashville,
march south
to
74
Corinth, Miss.
ville,

Buell moved forward, took possession of
lâsli-
and
established his headquarters there, while his
army was
quartered around the city.
Battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, April

1862.
6-7,
The Confederate
line of defense
was bounded by Mem-
phis on the west, Chattanooga on the east, with Shiloh in the

center.
Gen. Halleck was placed in
command
of all of the armies of
the Mississippi Valley early in 1862, with headquarters at St.
Louis.
the
They embraced
the
Army
of the Ohio, afterward called
Army of the Cumberland, under Army of the Tennessee, under Gen. U.

the Mississippi, under Gen.
Gen. D. C. Buell; the

S.
Grant
and
the
John Pope;
S.
the
Army Army
of
of
Southwest Missouri, under Gen.
R. Curtis.
Gen. Grant's victorious army, after a brief rest at Port Donelson, crossed to the Tennessee,
and prepared for a new moveat
ment against the Confederates^ who were now concentrating

Corinth.
of the
While adopting vigorous measures for the execution

the center of the
movement upon
new
line of defense
along the
Memphis & Charleston
Railroad, Grant received an
order from Gen. Halleck, instructing
him
1862.
to turn over his
com-
mand
to
Gen. C. P. Smith, March

liis
4,
Grant was relieved of

obedience.
command
of
because of supposed dis-
The temporary change
commanders did not

of the army.
re-
tard the preparation for the
movement
Transriver,
ports arrived, and the troops were taken
up the Tennessee
and disembarked
at
Savannah in
safety.
The
illness of
Gen.
Gosling C^ttnJ^
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bdi^^nOoi_
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Smith, which resulted in his death, and the discovery that Grant
had not been guilty of disobedience, reshlted in reinstating him

to his
former command, March 13th.
Much was
expected from
the
army
that had gained the signal victory at Forts
Henry and
it.
Donolson.
Public gaze was now concentrated upon

lost.
No
time was
Gen. Buell was orderpd from Nashville

his troops
to join
Grant,
ing,
who moved
from Savannah
to
Pittsburg Land-
nine miles farther up the river.
Buell at the same time sent Gen. O. M. Mitchell southward,

with instructions to destroy as
ton Railroad as possible.
much
of the
Memphis &
Charles-
He
passed through Shelbyville, and
on the 11th of April he surprised and captured Huntsvillp,
where he destroyed a large amount of supplies and railroad

stock.
He moved
to
Decatur and Tuscumbia.

to
It
was
his in-
tpution to
move eastward
Chattanooga and Rome,
to destroy
the machine-shops
to retire
and foundries there; but he was compelled

Later
before the superior force of Gen. Kirby Smith.
he joined the
command
officer
of Gen. Buell in his campaign against
Bragg, when this
conducted his invasion of Kentucky.
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston had collected an army of 45,000
men around
men
Gen.
in
Corinth.
Grant's force numbered about 40,000

Sliiloh.
and around
Five thousand of these, undnr
Lew
Wallace, did not arrive on the scene of conflict until
at the close of the first day's action.
Gen. Buell was approachGens.

a
ing with a force of 20,000 to cooperate with Grant.
Price and
Van Dorn were
on their
way from Missouri with
large force to swell Johnston's numbers.
76
THE
riVTI,
WAR BY
CAMrATGNS.
As
early as the
3rl
of April there
had been skirmishins: among
the pickets.
An
attack
upon the Union army was not expected,
however.
'No defenses had been erected, on the theory that the

to attack the
army would move upon Corinth

Buell should arrive.
enemy
as soon as
Johnston, however, determined to strike a
blow before reinforcements could come to Grant.

lently forth
pickets,
ing,
Moving
si-
from Corinth
to within a
few miles of the Federal
he encamped for the night, and early on Sunday morn-
April 6th, his army came like an avalanche upon the Union
pickets,
who were driven back
in confusion.
Soon the enemy
was upon the main body.

ent.
lilies
Grant was
not, for the
moment,
pres-
The
fell
troops were not prepared for the onslaught.

back, and were re-formed.
able seconds to Johnston.
The
Beauregard, Bragg and
Hardee were
Sherman, McClernand,
McDowell, Prentiss, and on the second day Lew Wallace and

Buell, rendered their best service to Grant.
Prentiss was surrounded, and compelled to surrender with
2,200 men.
the day.
The Union army had been badly

than 5,000
shattered during
the bank
iSTot less
men were huddled under

effort to
is
of the river, resisting every
bring them out to lines

all
again by the statement, "
Our regiment
cut to pieces."
The
lines fell
back from one position
to another until late in
the afternoon,
when they were formed along

In
this
the slopes and crest
of the bluff along the river.
new
position, wdth a deep
ravine in front of the
left,
with a raging river behind the army,
arrayed in a semi-circle they beat back the march of the then
triumphant army.
The gunboats Tyler and Lexington swept

the ravine,
77
shells into
which extended
to the river,
and hnrled
the Confederate columns.
Here
the
enemy made
Every
the last des-
perate effort to take the ITnion batteries and to capture the

troops or drive
them
into the river.
effort failed.
The
ravine became a death-trap, and was soon filled with the bodies
(f
the dead and wounded.
The onward march

lost heavily
of the Confed-
erates
was stopped.
They had
killed.
during the day.

arrived
Gen. Johnston was
Gen.
Lew Wallace
with
5,000 effectives, after the firing had ceased for the day.
forces arrived,
night.
Buell's
and were ferried across the river during the
Twenty-five thousand fresh troops were thus brought

field.
upon the Union
With
the early light of the
morning the
confiict
was resumed.
Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard,
Johnston's army,
who succeeded
to the
command
of
made
a desperate attempt to hold his ground.

it
His decimated troops responded nobly, but
was
all
in vain.
be-
The
came
little
old log church,
which constituted Shiloh, again
a conspicuous object in the battle-field.

field,
The enemy was
overpowered, and driven from the
back to the place which
he had so stealthily
left a
few days before.

killed,
The Union
was 1,728
loss
was 1,754
8,408 wounded, and 2,885
missing, most of
killed,
whom
were prisoners.
The Confederate
loss
8,012 wounded, 959 missing.

30.
Corinth Evacuated, May

The way
Gen.
Halleck
arrived
at
in
Pittsburg Landing April 11, and took

person.
in which Grant
command
of the
army
had conducted the
battle of
sort of
Shiloh was not satisfactory to him.
Grant was given a
78

Pope's army of
30,-
second command, without any real duty.
000 men arrived a few days

Island 'Ro. 10.
Halleck's
later, fresh
from the capture
of
Other accessions from various quarters increased

to
army
100,000 men.
Great preparations were

at Corinth,
at
once begun to move against the
enemy
where Beaure-
gard had strongly fortified himself after his defeat at Shiloh.

Corinth was then an insignificant village, about twenty-two
miles southwest of Pittsburg Landing, by the nearest wagonroad, or nineteen miles as the bird
flies.
It
owed
its
military
importance to the fact that
it
was located
at the intersection of
two great railroad systems

phis
the Mobile
&
Ohio and the Mem-
&
Charleston.
Beauregard's army was reinforced by the troops from Missouri under^ Price and
sliort
Van Dorn, and by
the troops that
had
time before evacuated
New
Orleans.
His force now num-
bered more than 50,000 men.
The forward movement

from the
of Halleck's
army from Shiloh
to
Corinth was commenced on April 30th.

siege
start
:
The movement was
slowly but gradually the troops advanced,
always behind intrenchments.
Three weeks were consumed
in
marching
position
fifteen miles.
Finally, Halleck's troops reached a

assault
from which
was
practicable.
Beauregard
held out as long as possible, without attacking the besieging
columns, and
when
his position
to
became untenable he abandoned

Halleck won a bloodless but
Corinth and retreated

barren victory.
Tupelo.
His troops took possession of Corinth
May

30th,
scale.
79
and commenced erecting
fortifications
on an elaborate
Gen. Bnell was detached on the 10th of June, and sent
to-
\vard Chattanooga to oppose Gen. Bragg, who succeeded Beaure-
gard in the
Corinth.
command
of the Confederate
army driven from

of the best and
In order
to strengthen Buell,
many
most experienced soldiers were taken from Corinth and placed
under him.
The Union
division which continued at Corinth

to
remained comparatively inactive from June
September.
Some important changes were soon

of the
for a
to take place in the distriofficers.
bution of the troops and in the change of
The
reverses
Army
of the
Potomac led the
authorities to look around
new
general-in-chief in place of McClellan.
Halleck was
looked upon as the coming man.

to
He was
accordingly
summoned
Washington
to
assume the responsible position of commander
of all the forces in the United States.
Grant succeeded
to the
command
of his old army, while
Pope was ordered
to Virginia,
and Rosecrans was placed in command of Pope's forces under

Gen. Grant.
luKA, Sept. 19.
Generals Price and Van Dorn were
left to
confront the Union troops under Gen. Grant.
Perceiving the
reduced condition of the Federal army, they began maneuvering for the possession of Corinth.
Price moved northeasterly,
apparently with the view of joining Bragg in his Kentucky campaign, expecting thus to
draw Grant from Corinth while Van

place.
Dom
would move forward and occupy the
Price took
possession of luka, driving out a small Federal force stationed
80
there.

Gen. Rosecrans was sent by a southern route to attack
Price at luka, while Gen. Ord went by a northern route to

intercept the retreat.
Bad
roads and imperfect
maps
of the
country prevented a simultaneous attack.

of 9,000 met the
Eosecrans's division
in an engagement in
enemy near luka, and

about eight hundred
which each side
lost
men
he succeeded
iu
defeating the force under Price.

federates
During the night the Con-
made
their escape,
and formed a junction with Van
Dorn.
Gen. Grant had counted on the destruction of Price's army.
As
it
was, luka was a victory without
much
gain.
Rosecrans
returned to Corinth after this engagement, and Grant moved

his headquarters to Jackson.
The enemy under Van Dorn,

by
and recover northern
having failed in the attempt to get possession of Corinth by

strategy, determined to take
it
assault,
Mississippi to the Confederacy.
Battiê of Corinth, October 3-4, 1862.
Gen. Grant had
under his command men.
at various points about forty-eight thousan*]
Of these, 7,000 were under Sherman at Memphis, 12,000 under Ord at Bolivar, 23,000 under Rosecrans at Corinth, and
6,000 at Grant's headquarters in Jackson.
While occupying a position

tacked by Generals Price and
at Corinth,
Rosecrans was
at-
Van Dorn,
in
command
of a Con-
federate force numbering 38,000 men.
On
the 3d, the engage-
ment consisted of skirmishing, and fragmentary charges and

repulses on both sides, with the advantage in favor of the Confederates.
The next day witnessed
a ferocious struggle.
The
81
enemy made
tery,
three furious attempts to capture Robinette's batinflicted
which had already
heavy damage upon them.

loss.
Each time they were repulsed with great
In the third
charge the Confederate banner was twice placed on the parapet
and twice shot away.
Col.
Rogers of the Second Texas sprang

colors in his hand.
fell,
upon the embankment with

he and five others
In an instant
who followed him

enemy became
mortally wounded.
The
defeat of the
complete.
They
retired
from Corinth
in disorder.
On
They
they
the 5th the retreating foe
was struck by Hurlbut and Ord,

about ten miles from Corinth.
at the crossing of
Hatchie
river,
Avere again
thrown into confusion, but by maneuvering
made good
their escape.
The Union The enemy
loss
was 2,359
in killed,

be-
lost
about three thousand killed and wounded,
sides 2,225 prisoners.
Soon after his defeat
at Corinth,
Van Dorn was

to
superseded
by Gen. Pemberton, and Rosecrans was promoted
BuelPs comre-
mand.
Gen. Grant began preparations to move upon the only
maining stronghold of the enemy in the Southwest
Vicksburg.
CHAPTER
VII.
THE OPENING OF THE
MISSISSIPPI.
The Confederate Line of Defense moves South. When the Civil War commenced, the Mississippi, from the mouth of
the
Ohio
to the Gulf, fell into the
hands of the Confederates.
Every
cial
effort
was exerted by them
to retain this great
commer-
highway.
tlie
As
the Confederate line of defense fell back
before
advancing columns of Grant's victorious veterans,

to Shiloh,
from Donelson
Corinth
to
from Shiloh
all
to Corinth,
and from
Vicksburg, so
places on the upper Mississippi
dwindled and faded away before the combined movement of the

land and naval forces.
elson
With
the fall of Forts

;
Henry and Donwith the
came the abandonment
of
Columbus with the Confederate

of Island No. 10
;
defeat at Shiloh
came the surrender
evacuation of
Corinth came the abandonment of Fort Pillow.
New
Orleans and Vicksburg were the only places on the river
that offered serious resistance to the
Union
forces.
All other
places above Vicksburg were
weakened
as the Confederate line
of defense
was pushed southward, and thus they were abanan easy prey
to the assailing forces.
doned, or
'ing
fell
The
follow-
pages in this chapter will narrate the events of the struggle
for the opening of the " Father of Waters.''
Columbus Abandoned, March

(82)
4,
1862.
Commodore Foote
collected a flotilla at Cairo, apparently for use at Nashville.
THE OPENING OF THE
MISSISSIPPI.
83
to
When
all
was ready, he drifted down the Mississippi
Colum-
bus, followed
by troops on transports under Gen. William T.
Sherman, while a supporting force moved overland from Paducah, under Gen. Cullum.
Columbus, Ky., was a Confederate stronghold, commanding

the navigation of the Mississippi.
Gen. Leonidas Polk, Episco-
pal bishop of Louisiana,

city before the
was
in
command.
and
He
abandoned the
back to the
Union
troops arrived,
fell
stronger defenses of Island iNo. 10.
Fall of 'Nbw Madrid (March 14) and Island

(April
the
7).
ISTo.
10
The
of the
islands of the Mississippi are
numbered from
Island 'No. 10
mouth
Ohio river down
to the Gulf.
lay in a sharp bend in the Mississippi, about thirty miles below
Columbus, Miss.
ISTew
Madrid, on the Missouri
side, is a
few
miles farther down-stream, though on account of the great bend

in the river
it lies
northwest of the island.
The opening
of the Mississippi
was one of the objective points

purpose the Confederates had
of the Federals.
To
resist this
ISTo.
strongly fortified Island
10.
Forty guns had been mounted.

left for
Gen. Beauregard was in command, but he

5th,
Corinth, April
and transferred his command
to
Gen. Makall.
Gen. John Pope, who commanded in eastern Missouri, appeared before
New Madrid
with some 20,000 men, while Comfleet to assail
modore Foote was preparing a

the north.
to
Island No. 10 from
He
intrenclied three regiments at Point Pleasant,
command
the passage of the river directly back of Island No.

to Cairo for large siege
10,
and sent
guns
to
bombard
New
84
Madrid.
Gen.
McCown,
at
seeing the danger of capture, abanre-
doned the place
night during a heavy thunder-storm, and
.^LpOPES HEAOQOAftTEBi
(New
SLAWD
NO.
/Q
moved
in
liis
troops to
Ishmd Xo.
10, leaving
most of their equipage
camp.
About
Poote
tlie
time of the surrender of

fleet of
Xew
Madrid, Commodore
left
Cairo with a
seven ironclads and other boats
for the purpose of aiding Gen.
Pope
in his attack
on Island
THE OPENING OF THE
MISSISSIPPI.
85
No. 10.
Commodore Foote bombarded the Confederate works many days without any damage to them. Gen. Pope wished
approach the enemy from the improtected south.
to
He
all
could
not take his troops across the river, as his boats were
the island.
above
He
conceived the plan of digging a canal across the
loop of the river, so as to be able to take his transports below the
enemy's batteries and convey his troops across to the Kentucky

side.
The canal was dug through James bayou, a swampy peninformed by the bend of the
fifty feet wide.
sula
river.
It
was twelve miles long

a timber dis-
and
About ten miles was through
trict,
much
of which had to be sawed under the surface of the

feat
water.
The remarkable
was accomplished in nineteen days.
The
transports passed through the canal to a point below the
island, while
two of Foote's ironclads ran past the
batteries.
Pope's troops crossed the river, took Tiptonville, and closed the
only avenue of escape for the beleaguered troops, as the
swampy
and flooded lands

Entirely cut
off
to the east precluded retreat in that direction.
from
retreat or succor, the whole Confederate
force on the mainland and on the island, 7,000 in number, sur-
rendered April 7th,
the day on which the battle of Shiloh was
fought
Island
IN'o.
10 has since disappeared.

little
The
little
water, constantly
wearing at the upper end, has

away.
by
swept
it
entirely
Surrender of
tempt
to
!N"ew
Orleans, April
29, 1862.
The
at-
open the Mississippi was not confined to the operations

north.
from the
Early in the year 1862, a combined land and
86
TFE CIVIL WAR BY CAMPAIGNS.
naval force was prepared to

the south.
move
against
New
Orleans from
For
is
this
purpose forces were congregated at Ship
Island, which
located in the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 miles
north and east of the
mouth
of the Mississippi river.
Commoand Gen-
dore David Farragut was chosen to

eral
command
in
the
fleet,
Benjamin F. Butler was placed
charge of the land forces.

city,
New
at the
est
Orleans was the largest Southern
with a population
outbreak of the war of 170,000.
It possessed the greatin the world.

It
export trade, prior to
the war, of any city
contained the resources of modern warfare, having workshops
where machinery of the most powerful kind could be
built,
and
having artisans capable of building ships, casting guns, and
making small arms.

States as
Its people
were as
hostile to the
United
any in the South.
The
city is
one hundred miles
above the mouth of the Mississippi.

side,
Fort Jackson on the west
and Fort
St.
Philip on the east side of the river, guarded
the approaches to the city.
Immense wealth
abundance by
directed
raised
in coin
and produce was furnished in great
New
Orleans to support the military operations
from Richmond.
Regiment
after regiment
to
had been
and equipped here, and dispatched
meet the pressing
exigencies on the Potomac, the Tennessee, and the upper Mississippi.
When
the hour of peril
came
to
New
Orleans, only a
small military force, poorly drilled, remained to defend the

city.
Gen. Mansfield Lovell was in

forces stationed here.
command
of the Confederate
He
exhausted every energy to defend and
THE OPENING OF THE

protect the city.
MISSISSIPPI.
87
Forts
St.
Philip and Jackson were strength-
ened, and
all
the land approaches to the city were fortified and
guarded.
The
river
was ohstnirtrd by strongly braced
piles
and green
live-oaks.
strong chain was extended across the river within

forts.
raft.
range of tbo guns of the
It
was supported by eight
dis-
mantled vessels and a large

drift toward the
Fire-rafts were prepared, to

vessels.
Union
fleet
and ignite the

fleet
Farragnt with his powerful

land forces of 14,000 under
of 47 vessels, carrying the the river.
Bn tier, steamed np
six
The
mortars and gnnboats approached within range of the forts and
opened
fire
npon them.
For
fire,
days and nights the mortars
kept up an unremitting
shells
mainly upon Fort Jackson; 16,800

effect
were thrown without much
upon the enemy's
de-
fenses.
Finally, Farragut determined to run past the forts.
Captain Bell was sent on the night of the 20th of April with
two gunboats on the dangerous mission of making an opening in

the chain obstruction, for the passage of the
fire
fleet.
The whole
of Fort Jackson was concentrated
upon them, but the cable

bank, and a sufficiently
fleet,
was successfully separated near the

large opening
left
made
At
to
admit the passage of the
which was
waiting below.
3 :30 in the
morning of April
24, the bold
attempt to pass the forts was begun.

face of a terrific fire
On
they steamed, in the
from the
forts, past the chain,
through
sunken hulks, amid burning

fleet
rafts,
encountering the Confederate
of fifteen vessels, two of which were ironclads.
The
fleet
it
kept up a continuous rain of shot and shell upon the forts as
88
passed bj them.
vessel,

It captured or destroyed every Confederate
it set
and accomplished the mission for which
out with
a feat in with-
the loss of but a single vessel.
Thus was achieved
naval warfare which had no precedent, and which
is still
out a parallel except the one furnished by Farragut himself at
Mobile, two years later, and the one furnished by Deiwey at
Manila, which, though not entirely similar, was in some respects
more remarkable
in results.
Commodore
"No
Porter,
who kept up
the mortar-fire while Farra-
gut was forcing his
way up
the stream, says
grander or more beautiful sight could have been realized than From silence, disturbed now and then by the slow fire of the mortars, the phantom-like movement of the vessels giving no sound, an increased roar of heavy guns began, while the mortars burst forth in rapid bombardment, as the fleet drew near the enemy's works. Vessel after vessel added her guns to those already at work, until the very earth seemed to shake from the reverberations. A burning raft added its lurid glare to the scene, and the fiery attacks of the mortar-shells, as they passed through the darkness aloft, and sometimes bursting in midair, gave the impression that heaven itself had joined in the general strife. The succeeding silence was almost as sudden. From the weighing of the anchors, one hour and ten minutes saw the vessels by the forts, and Farragut on his way to New Orleans, the prize staked upon the fierce game of war just ended."
the scenes of that night.
Gen. Lovell, who was in
command
at
'New Orleans, came
down
the river to observe events, and narrowly escaped capture.
He
hastened to the city and withdrew his soldiers on the evenfleet.
ing of the 24th, leaving the town at the mercy of the Union
When news
reached
New
Orleans that the Confederate

fleet
flotilla
had been destroyed and the triumphant

the city, a strange scene followed.
was approaching
Hopeless panic seized the
THE OPENING OF THE

fjoofl
MISSISSIPPI.
89
people of the city, and
ruffiaTis,
cut-throats
and thngs went
about pillaging houses, shops, and stores.
Public materials were
heaped in the
cotton were
streets
and burned.
flames.
Twelve thousand bales of
consumed by the
The mob swayed back and

and urging the
forth in the streets, hooting, yelling, cursing,
people to resist the landing of the Federals.
Farragut appeared before 'New Orleans on the 25th of April,
and demanded the surrender of the

less to control
city.
The mayor was powerBut on the 29th
the mob, and could not surrender the city while
the people
were swayed by their passions.
the militia landed and took possession of the public buildings.
The
forts
his
had surrendered the day before.
Gen. Butler had
worked
St.
way through bayous and bays
in the rear of Fort

first
Philip, landing his
men from
row-boats on the
firm
ground reached.
contest,
Realizing the uselessness of protracting the

the forts to Captain Porter.
of JSTew Orleans, and in-
the
enemy surrendered
Gen. Butler took military
command
augurated stringent methods for cleansing and pacifying the

unclean and turbulent
city.
Almost one-half of the population
of the city were of foreign birth.
A large number of the poorer

class.
element belonged to a dangerous and desperate

alone would answer in controlling them.
Severity
Wm.
flag
B.
Mumford
was hanged for tearing down the National

over the mint by one of Farragut's
healthful effect
which was raised

This event had a
officers.
upon the turbulent and
lawless.
The
total loss to the
Union
forces in achieving the brilliant
victory at
New
Orleans was 40 killed and 177 wounded.
90
the civil
war by
campaigns.
Baton Rouge, Natchez, and the First Attack on YicksBURG, 1862.
After New Orleans had been secured and handed

as
over to Gen. Butler, Farragut pushed up the Mississippi, taking
Baton Rouge, Natchez, and every town of any importance

far as Vicksburg.
On June
28th a general attack was made
upon
this city.
Farragut succeeded in running the batteries
with two frigates and six gunboats, and bombarded the enemy's
works from above; but

them.
little
or no effect
was produced upon

at intervals,
The bombardment was continued
while
General Williams was attempting to cut a canal across the

isthmus formed by the bend of the river, and while an application to Gen. Halleck at Corinth
was pending, for a corps of

of the canal, the
first
his
army
to aid the
fleet.
The work
of three
attempts, proved unsuccessful, and no troops were sent to aid
Farragut.
The
siege of Vicksburg
was abandoned by order

river with
from Washington, and Farragut dropped down the

the greater part of his
fleet.
Gen. Williams with his soldiers
returned to Baton Rouge in time to repulse an attack

that place,
made upon
J. C.
August
5th,
by the Confederates under Gen.
Breckinridge.
Fort Pillow Evacuated, May

brilliant victory of
10.
Not
before
long after the
Commodore Farragut
New
Orleans,
a Federal fleet
under Com. H.
C. Davis prepared to attack Fort
Pillow, located on the Mississippi in the vicinity of

P)Ut
Memphis.
the place,
on the approach of the

10th.
fleet,
the
enemy evacuated
May
THE OPENING OF THE
MISSISSIPPI.
91
Memphis Taken, June

ceeded with his
fleet
6,
1862.
Commodore
A
Davis pro-
toward Memphis.
formidable Confed-
erate flotilla awaited his approach,
commanded by Commodore
Ave in {ho morninc:,
in
Montgomery.
The
fleets
met
at half-past
when
the engai;'ement beoan.
The
inhabitants swa nncd
mnl-
titndes
battle.
npon the
Disaster
fleet
blnfi^,
levee,
and honse-roofs,
npon the
to witness the
came
thickly
vessels of the
enemy.
Their entire
was either captured or destroyed in an hour
and a half after the beginning of the engagement, with the

exception of the flagship
bled her to escape.
Van Dorn, whose

loss
superior speed ena-
The enemy's
was heavy
Ellet, jr.,
nearly
100
of
men
the
killed
and wounded; while Col.
commander
Union rams, was the only man wounded on
the Federal
fleet.
He
died afterward from exhaustion and from the effect
of the wound.
The Queen
of the
West was
the only Federal
vessel severely injured.
Commodore Davis then

in one of the chief
took possession of the city, and the
supremacy of the Federal Government was again established

towns of Tennessee.
The ultimate
effect of this victory
was
great.
It assisted in
effectively clearing the Mississippi
from the presence of the
{)owerful Confederate gunboats.
With
the single exception of Vicksburg, every other strong-
hold of the foe had been taken.
The conquest
of Vicksburg
alone Avas necessary to open the channel of the great highway of

the West,
eracy.
and sever one of the leading
arteries of the Confed-
92
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
Secoxd Movemej^t
tween
agaia^st Vicksbukg,
December, 1862.
Vicksburg, located on the Mississii)^!! river about luidwîy beits
mouth and Cairo,
Avas tlie natural center
and chief
fall
stronghold of the slaveholding States in the West after the
Vktt^slbiuiirg'.
of
Xew
Orleans.
Its natural strength
and importance as comriver
manding the navigation

appreciated
;
of the ^Mississippi
were early
to
and
it
Avas so fortified
and garrisoned as
make
the storming of the works a dangerous task and the capture of
THE OPKNTNG OF THE

it
MISSISSIPPI.
93
against Vicksfailure.
well-nigh impossible.
The naval demonstration
burg after the victory at 'New Orleans, had proved a
After Halleck was promoted and transferred to Washington,
Grant was put in command of the

FTis
district of
western Tennessee.
command was extended
Oct. 16, 18G2, to include the State
of Mississippi.
at Forts
He had
gradually driven the enemy southward

Shiloh, Corinth, and luka.
Henry and Donelson,
He
ulti-
now commenced preparations

mately taking Vicksburg.
for an active campaign against
Gen. John C. Pemberton in his front, with the hope of
Pemberton had established
his head-
quarters at Jackson, Mississippi, while

In
Van Dorn,
at
second to him
command, occupied the Confederate front

his
Holly Springs.
Tenn., to La-
Grant moved
own headquarters from Jackson,

to Vicksburg.
grange, and arranged with Rear Admiral Porter to convey Sher-
man's men from Memphis

with nearly 60,000
He
himself moved
Railroad.
men by way
of the Mobile
& Ohio
He pushed
ford.
through Grand Junction and Holly Springs to Oxat the latter place
While
preparing to move on Jackson

to Grant's
and Vicksburg, Van Dorn struck a damaging blow

communications.
Col. R. C.
Murphy was
left in
command
of
Holly Springs, which had been the temporary depot of arms,

munitions and provisions for the Union army.
iously surrendered the place
20, 1862, to a
He
ignominDec.
and men under
his
command
band of Confederate
of
raiders, while other places
with a
less
number
men
in garrison valiantly repelled the

rail for the re-
invaders.
lief
Grant had dispatched 4,000 men by
of Holly Springs, but they arrived only a few hours after
94
the
enemy had
departed.
Col.
Murphy was
dismissed from
service in a stinging order
by Gen. Grant.
Thus by the cowardice or perversity of one man, were not

only 2,000
men
surrendered, and several million dollars' worth
of property sacrificed, but the fair promise of an important
expedition was blighted.
By
to
the loss of his stores Grant was
completely paralyzed.
tion, to
He
decided to fall back to Grand Junc-
move westward
Memphis, and
to
descend by the
river to Vicksburg.
courier was at once sent to notify Sher
man
had
of this disaster.
after the
The day
left
Holly Springs surrender, Gen. Sherman

the right
Memphis with
wing of the Army of the Ten-
nessee, about 30,000 strong,
and passed down the Mississippi,
on transports, and twelve miles up the Yazoo.
Debarking
his
men, he commenced an assault upon the defenses of Vicksburg
from the north.
Grant's recoil from Oxford was
unknown
to
Sherman, as Grant's courier failed
to reach his destination,
and
the Confederates under Gen. Pemberton, previously confront-
ing Grant,
now
faced about and concentrated their energies in
opposition to Sherman,
tion of the
who expected Grant
to
engage the atten-
main body.
Expeditious as were Sherman's move-
ments,
all
of the Confederate forces, with the exception of

his cavalry,
is
Van
Dorn and
were on hand
to receive
him.
Vicksburg
is
built on a range of bluffs
whose average height

to
about 200
feet,
and quite precipitous from Vicksburg
Haines Bluff, a distance of about thirteen or fourteen
miles.
Beyond the
bluffs there is
low ground of swamps and bayous,
THE OPENING OF THE

the chief of which
is
MISSISSIPPI.
96
con-
Chickasaw Bayou.
The enemy had

rifle-pits.
structed an abatis
bluffs
and dotted the swamps with

rifle-trenches
The
frowned with
and
hostile batteries.
to pass
Coming
time he
from the north, Sherman was compelled

lands,
set out
through the low

at the
and then ascend the abrupt
bluffs,
though
on the expedition he had not realized the seriousness of

soil.
the obstacles afforded by the character of the
Sherman's army was uniquely Western.

for a a
They were
figliting
Western advantage, and entered into the campaign with

to carry the approaches to Vicksburg.
fleet,
grim determination
Admiral Porter, in command of the Union

and hearty cooperation
were too great
about 2,000
to to the
gave prompt
land forces.
The impediments
was made, in which
be overcome.
lost,
An
assault
men were
including prisoners and wounded.
The news
of Grant's failure to
come overland, the consequent
concentration of about 40,000 Confederates to oppose his troops,
and the strong
fortification of the
enemy, induced Sherman
to
abandon the undertaking for the time.

ther attempt to capture the place
disastrous loss of
life.
He knew
that any fur-
would
result in a useless
and
He
accordingly embarked with his troops
Jan.
2,
for Milliken's Bend.
While on the point of
leaving.
Gen. John A. McClernand, Sherman's senior, arrived and took
command.
He
acquiesced in Sherman's plans for the return
expedition, and at once began active measures for the reduction
of Fort
Hindman,
called also "
The Post
of Arkansas," fifty
miles from the Mississippi, where a French settlement had been
made
in 1685.
After a gallant defense, the fort
fell into
the
96
hands of Gen. McClernand.

St.
The 5,000
prisoners were sent to
Louis, and the
Union
forces,
pursuant to the order of Gen.
Grant, returned to Milliken's Bend.
Third and Final Movement against Vicksburg, 1803.

Gen. Grant, having reorganized and refitted his army at
phis, descended the river with his troops in transports to
Memof the
Young's
Point, nine miles above Vicksburg.
Here was the head
canal project commenced and abandoned some months before
by Gen. Williams.
Gen. Grant concluded to complete the canal.
By means
transports
river.
of this he expected to isolate Vicksburg, and take his
down below
large
the city to convey his

of
number
men men were employed at

making work
to
across the
this work.
The heavy
rains flooded the district,
at the canal
impossible, and induced
Grant permanently
abandon the un-
dertaking.
He
had
also attempted to flank the Confederates
by passing with
lakes,
his transports through a

to a point
network of bayous,
and connecting streams
below Vicksburg; but

this.
he found the impediments too great to accomplish
The
character of the Confederate defense and the nature of
the country convinced Gen. Grant that Vicksburg could not be

successfully assailed
from above unless he had
full control of the
Yazoo
river, for whicli
he had persistently but vainly struggled.
He now
decided on an entirely
new
line of operations.
In pur-
suance with this plan he recalled the various expeditions looking

to the control of the
Yazoo
valley.
He
set out
from Milliken's
to a point be-
Bend, marched down on the west side of the river

low Vicksburg, intending
to cross the river in transports,
and
THE OPENING OF THE

assail the
MISSISSIPPI.
97
enemy from
to do.
the east, instead of from the west as ho

at the
had intended
In the meantime Commodore Porter,
suggestion of Gen. Grant, had
made
preparations to run the
Vicksburg batteries with his ironclads and transports.
The
at-
ironclads passed without harm, but of the nine transports
tempting
to pass the batteries,
one was
set
on
fire
and burned
to the water's edge,
one was disabled and sunk, while the rest

little
passed with comparatively
damage.
to retaliate
Grierson's Cavalry Raid.
Grant determined
starting
for the destructive cavalry raids of Morgan, Forrest, and
Van
Dorn.
Col. B.
H. Grierson,
from Lagrange, Tenn.,
with a brigade of 1,700 cavalry, swept rapidly southward

through Mississippi and Louisiana, and entered Baton Bouge
in sixteen days, after
having traveled 600 miles, destroyed much
property, and captured and paroled some prisoners.
Grant's Movement upon Yicksburg prom the South,
April to July, 1863.

a naval attack
On
the 29th of April Grant directed
upon Grand Gulf, which was gallantly made by

his
Admiral Porter with
gunboat
fleet.
But
as
no decided ad-
vantage could be gained, owing to the elevated position of the
Confederate batteries, the attack was soon abandoned.
Learn-
ing that there was a good road leading from Bruinsburg to Port
Gibson in the rear of Grand Gulf, Grant placed his

transports and crossed the river at Bruinsburg.
men
on
His army had
marched seventy miles on the west
side of the river, over
muddy
roads, scarcely above the river-line.
Grant crossed the river
98
with 10,000 men, April 30th.

a wagon.
They did not carry
a tent or take
It has been said that Grant's only baggage

after.
was a
tooth-
brush.
Other divisions followed soon
On
the 3d of
May
they left the river.
They did not march
directly on Vicksburg,
city.
but pushed inland to cut off communications with the
Gen.
J.
E. Johnston was in supreme
command
of
all
Con-
federate forces west of the Alleghanies. tanooga, but
He
had been
at Chat-
came
to the relief of
Pemberton when
his situation
all,
became
critical.
Pemberton's troops, about 50,000 in
were stationed from Haines Bluff on the north to Grand Gulf

on the south, and to Jackson and Granada on the
east.
As
Grant advanced toward Port Gibson, the enemy was encountered and defeated
May
1st in quite a severe battle.
Grand
Gulf
fell as
a result of this engagement.
Sherman, who was conducting a feint against the enemy's

works in the north, was ordered to join Grant's
forces, while
Grant changed his base of supplies from Bruinsburg

Gulf.
to
Grand
en-
Grant then continued
his
march toward Jackson,
countering no obstacles until near
Raymond, where he met and
defeated two of the enemy's brigades

the Confederates were again
(May 12th). At Jackson defeated (May 14th), and driven
from the
city.
The Confederate main body, numbering 25,000 men, under

Gen. Pemberton, marched out from Vicksburg to meet Grant's
invading army.
considerable
loss.
At Champion Hills they were defeated with
May
16th,
and retreated toward the works of
Vicksburg, pursued by the Union troops.
Making
a stand near
THE OPENING OF THE
MISSISSIPPI.
99
the Big Black river, the Confederates again
met with defeat
(Maj
17th), and then fell back to the friendly shelter within
the fortifications of Vicksburg.
An
rear
immediate assault on the land defenses of Vicksburg was
determined upon by Grant, who apprehended an attack on his
by Johnston, strongly reinforced from Bragg's army.
Accordingly, a general assault was
made on
the afternoon of
Afay 19th, which resulted in no advantage to the Union troops.
The next two days were devoted

The
upon the
to
bringing up and distributing
provisions and to a preparation for a

assault
more determined
attack.
well-fortified defenses of the Confederates

spirit,
was made with great
but resulted in the decimation of
the ranks as they advanced.
The
troops were finally recalled
from the advanced and imperiled positions which they had

taken,
hold.
and
settled
down
loss
to the siege of the
Confederate strong-
The Union
was about 3,000
killed
and wounded
in
this wasteful assault.
Siege of Vicksburg, and Surrender on July

Vicksburg was now completely invested.
4,
1863.
Porter's gunboats
prevented escape by water, or succor from the Louisiana side.
And
Grant, keeping a sharp lookout for Johnston in the rear,

his
commenced digging
a force not
at
way
into Vicksburg
from the
east,
with
much
superior in
number
to that
which he had beaten
Champion
Hills and the Big Black.
Pemberton was notably

;
short of both provisions and

in the hospital, sick or
ammunition 6,000 of
;
his
men were
wounded
his hopes of relief
were slender.
Grant's
nioii
were
in
good
spirits, and, since the
day of the un-
94696
100
lucky assault,
THE CIVIL WAB BY CAMPAIGNS.

lie
had received reinforcements.

forts,
Mines were
in
sprung under Confederate
and breastworks thrown up

it
advance of the Union army as
gradually worked
its
way
toward Vicksburg.
But while the troops were digging mines

silently at
from without, famine
work within the Confederate
ranks was more persuasive than bullet-shot or saber-cut.

Finally, after forty-five days of siege, Pemberton, hopeless
of relief,
flag,
and
at the
end of his resources, hung out the white

his
and surrendered
army and
the city on the 4th of July.
As a
enemy
result of this
campaign in and about Vicksburg the
lost
about 10,000
men
killed
and wounded, and 37,000

siege.
prisoners,
which includes those taken before the
Gen. Grant reports his losses in this memorable campaign,
from the day he landed

der, at
at
Bruinsburg until that of the surren-
945
killed,
7,095 wounded, and 537 missing.
This was by far the most disastrous blow to the Confederacy

that
had yet been given.
"No other campaign of the
war exceeds
this in brilliancy of conception
and in successful prosecution.
Gen. Johnston had been using every exertion to raise an army

strong enough to fall upon the rear of Grant's
the siege of Vicksburg.
to hold
army and
raise
Gen. Sherman was sent with a force

JSTot
Johnston in check.
being able to meet Gen. Sher-
man
the
in a pitched battle, Johnston began operating

river,
down along
Big Black
with the probable intention of forming a
junction with Pemberton, and of cutting a
way
out for him.

his
But
before this could be attempted,
Pemberton surrendered
famished army.
Gen. Johnston, hearing of the surrender of the
THE OPENING OF THE
MISSISSIPPI.
101
Confodorate army, marched eastward, pursued by Sherman, to

Jackson, where a small engagement occurred.
During the night
ho hurried across the Pearl river, and continued his retreat
through Brandon to Morton.
On June
6th a force of Confederates from Arkansas

to take Milliken's
made
an unsuccessful attempt
to the fall of
Bend.
Just prior
Port Hudson, Confederate General Holmes with
9,000
men
tried to take Helena, held
by General Prentiss with
a force less than one-half as large as that of his assailant, but

failed.
Sherman pursued Johnston's army

realizing that the
as far as
Brandon, but
enemy had
escaped, he returned to his old

of the greatest,
position about Vicksburg.

in
Thus ended one
and
many
respects most important campaigTis of the Civil

8,
War.
Surrender of Port Hudson, July

N'athaniel P.
1863.
General
Banks assumed command of the department of
the Gulf, Dec. 11, 1862, with a force of 30,000; but he sent
detail after detail until his available troops to operate against
Port Hudson was only 14,000.

with Gen. Grant in his
efforts to
He
was expected
to cooperate
open the Mississippi and expel

Gen.
the Confederates bearing arms in Tôuisiana and Texas.
Gardner was in command of Port Hudson, with a force equal He was well fortified. Two spirited to that under Banks.
attacks were
made upon
the Confederate defenses, on
May
27th
and June 14th.

settled
Banks, having gained no permanent advantage,
down
to the
employment of the same methods for the
reduction of the place as Grant was using at Vicksburg, namely,
102
digging his
way
to the hreastworks of the
enemy, and reducing
the efficient defense by cutting off all supplies
and
succor.
About
2,500 of the enemy's cavalry were in the rear of
Gen. Banks's army.

in
Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, at Jackson, was
danger of swooping down at any moment.
Fresh rein-
forcements from Alabama and Georgia

siege
sufficient to raise the

vic-
might be expected.
Gen. K. E. Lee, so recently
torious at Chancellorsville,
might send a
relief corps
by
rail to
Gardner.
In vain the garrison looked for reinforcements.
The
ammunition for small arms was gradually expended,

twenty rounds per
artillery.
until but
man remained; and

out,
but
little
more for the

and served
as
The meat gave
and mules were
killed
as food.
Rats were cooked and eaten, and pronounced

squirrels.
good as
Considering the enervated condition of the

a gallant defense.
troops, the
enemy made
Suddenly, on July
6th, the Union batteries shook the heavens with tremendous

salutes, while cheer after cheer
from behind the works, and from
the gunboats, rolled to the hills, reverberating the good tidings

that Vicksburg
had surrendered.
it
The news
any
of this disaster to
the
Confederacy made
folly to resist
longer.
Gen. Gard-
ner accordingly opened negotiations with Banks, and under the
terms of capitulation the garrison became prisoners of war July

9th.
The Union
troops took possession of the city.
The
loss to
Banks's army in this campaign of forty days was about 3,000 men. The number of prisoners taken at the Port was 6,408,
but the number captured in the whole campaign was 10,584
men, besides many guns, arms,
etc.
THE OPENING OF THE
MISSISSIPPI.
103
Gen. Banks, after his victorj at Port Hudson, led an expedition of 6,000 into
Texas by way of the Rio Grande.
After
taking Brownsville and Point Isabel, and leaving Gen.

in
Dana
command
With
at the
former place, he returned
to ISTew Orleans.
the fall of Vicksburg and Port
Hudson came
Only
local
the undis-
puted navigation of the Mississippi.

hostilities
and partisan
were conducted on
it
after this.
One
of the objective
river remained
points of the
war was accomplished.
The great
open
to the close of the
war, in undisputed possession of Na-
tional authority.
CHAPTER
VIII.
BRAGG'S INVASION OF KENTUCKY.

Movement to Chattanooga,
treated to Tnpelo.
efforts
1862.
The Confederate
two strongholds
vetre-
erans that had confronted Grant at Shiloh and Corinth
After the fall of these places the enemy's

to the defense of
were directed
east,
Chat-
tanooga on the
and Vicksburg on the west.
The
events of
the struggle for possession of the latter place

given.
have already been

of the Confedat
Gen. Braxton Bragg,
now
in
command
erate armies west of the mountains,
abandoned his position
Tupelo, and moved his troops via the Mobile railroad to Chattanooga.
His army had been increased by conscription

in.
to
45,000 men, and was organized
three corps, under Hardee,
Bishop Polk, and Kirby Smith, respectively.
Gen. Buell
left
Corinth on the 10th of June for Chattanooga by
way
of the
Memphis & Charleston

by the enemy.
Kailroad, which had been destroyed

of the road under instructions
time.
The rebuilding
from Gen. Halleck consumed much

profited
The Confederates
by
this delay,
and on the 29th of July they entered
Chattanooga before the arrival of the Union army, and established headquarters there.
Invasion of Kentucky, 1862-63.

ceived the bold plan of carrying the
lan's
The Confederates
north.
failure,
con-
war farther
McClel-
campaign before Eichmond had proved a

(104)
and
BRAGG 'S INVASION OF KENTUCKY.

led to the invasion of
105
Maryland by Lee.
Simultaneous with
Lee's
movement
north,
Bragg
started on his invasion of
Ken-
tncky.
He
had been assured that many Kentuckians were
iiwaiting an opportunity to join the Southern cause.
He
ex-
pected a general uprising in favor of the Confederacy to attend

his
march
north,
and hoped
finally to recover
Tennessee and
west Kentucky from ITational authority.

Louisville with
its
immense resources was the immediate

was thought
also
object of his gigantic raid, though Cincinnati

to
be within his purview.
Buell supposed that Bragg would
endeavor to get possession of Nashville.
To
avoid
this,
Buell
concentrated the bulk of his forces at Murfreesboro.
While he
set out for
was doing
Louisville.
this,
Bragg
stole
.a
march on him, and
Gen. Kieby Smith at Kichmond, Ky., August
29, 1862.
As Grant was conducting

driving the
his magnificent
campaign in the West,
enemy
farther and farther south, portions of Ken-
tucky and Tennessee became exposed to the Confederate raiders,
Morgan,
Forrest, and other chieftains
who overran
the
State. Gen. Kirby Smith, who played an important part in the Battle of Bull Kun, uniting these bands, marched forward from
Knoxville as the advance guard of Bragg's army.
Passing
through Big Creek
Gap
of the
Cumberland mountains, he
to
pushed rapidly northward through London
Richmond, Ky.
Here he encountered, August

Gen. Nelson.
16, 1862, a
Union force under

thousand prisoners.
In the
battle
which followed, the Federal troops

loss of several
were badly defeated, with a
106
N'elsoii
THE OTVIL WAR BY CAMPAIGNS.

himself was killed.
little
Aftfer his success
at
Hichmond,
Smith found
opposition at Lexington, Frankfort, Paris,
and Cynthiana.
whose
citizens,
He
was within one day's march of Cincinnati,
under the direction of Gen.

efforts to receive
Lew
Wallace, were
fell
making vigorous
to
him, when he again
hack
Frankfort and Lexington to

BuELii's
effect a junction
with Bragg.
March to
Louisville, September, 1862.
When
left a
Buell discovered that the true object of the Confederates was

Louisville,
to indicate,
and not Nashville,

he
set
as their first
movements seemed
out on a great race for that place.
He
garrison at ISTashville, and by forced marches he succeeded in
reaching Louisville, Sept. 25th,

his competitor,
about one day
in advance of
who had been delayed on account

At
of a burnt
bridge at Bardstown.
forcements.
Louisville Buell received large reintroops, but
Most were in the shape of raw
some
were veterans sent up the Mississippi and Ohio from Grant's

army.
His
forces
had thus' been augmented, until they num-
bered 100,000 men.
Battle of Perryville, Oct.

the State of Kentucky.
8,
1862.
Buell had
failed to
gain possession of Chattanooga, and permitted Bragg to invade
His delays were very
distasteful to the
latter
authorities at Washington.
Orders were issued in the
part of September relieving
him
of the
command
But
of the army.
Thomas was appointed

nanimous
with the
effect that the
to succeed him.
this able
and mag-
soldier pleaded earnestly for the retention of Buell,
order was suspended and Buell retained.
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ALA.
BRAGG 'S INVASION OF KENTUCKY.

This vpmindor of
tlic
107
authorities awa-
dosirrs of the FrHrral
kpuprl Riioll to a (ioiormination to
meet the enemy.
He
accord-
ingly set out to find his oppmiont.

(ren.
(
Bragg
in his
march north passed through

to
Pineville,
'arthage,
Glasgow, and Munfordsvillc,
Bardstown.
Leaving
Bishop Polk temporarily in

to
command
of the troops,
Bragg went
Frankfort, which had been occupied by Smith's command, to
witness the inangnration of Richard
Hawes
as
Confederate
(rovernor of the State.
The booming
of cannon announeed the
near presence of Union troops, and cut short the inaugural address of the pretended Governor,
who was
obliged to seek safety
by a hasty departure.
enemj^,
retreat,
Buell moved forward to attack the
now
posted at Bardstown.
Bragg commenced a slow

at Perryville.
and Buell came upon Hardee's division

fell
Polk soon joined Hardee and both

division of Buell's army.
heavily upon McCook's
The
battle continued
during the day

the night the
of October 8th, Avith great severity.
But during
enemy decamped, and
retreated to Harrodsburg, where they
were joined by Kirby Smith.

killed,
The Union
loss in this battle in
wounded and missing was about

was about 2,500.
3,300, while the Confed-
erate loss
The Federal army did not pursue

The
battle
the retreating
army
at once.
was
little
better than a
drawn engagement.
Bragg had, of
'No de-
cided advantage had been gained.

to reach Louisville,
course, failed
and now he was made
to retreat southward,
but in no great fear of disaster to his troops.
His
retreat
was
conducted through Cumberland Gap, and ended at Chattanooga.
108

succeeded in carrying
off
He
hundreds of wagon-loads of pro-
visions, clothing,
and other necessaries for the army.
He
drove
with him thousands of beeves, horses, and mules, and carried
away an immense amount
of groceries and domestic goods
gathered from the stores of Lexington, Frankfort, Danville, and

other places.
In consequence of Bucll's
to
sIoav pursuit,
Bragg was permitted
conduct a safe retreat without having been attacked more
than once in a period of five months.
Gen. Halleck desired

still
Buell to undertake a campaign in eastern Tennessee,

pied by the enemy.
occu-
Buell believed
it
utterly impossible to
supply the army with food, at places remote from the railroad.
The
project
was abandoned, and the Union troops again
con-
centrated at Kashville.
The Federal Government, much displeased with the

tivity
inac-
and dilatory movements of Buell, removed him from the

Oct. 30th, 1862.
command,
Gen. Rosecrans, who had figured
prominently at Corinth and Inka, superseded him.
The
result of the
Kentucky campaign was no more
satisfac-
tory to the Confederate government than to the National authority.
Both
sides expected decisive results,
and neither obtained
them.
Scarcely had Bragg reached Chattanooga,
when he was
ordered to move northward again.

to
He moved
his headquarters
Tullahoma, and then to Murfreesboro.
Battle of Murfreesboro, December

Gen. Rosecrans on assuming
(hereafter to be
31,
January
2,
1863.
command
of the
Army
of the Ohio
known
as the
Army
of the
Cumberland) found
BKAGG's invasion of KENTUCKY.
109
it
greatly demoralized by long marches and indecisive results.

the 100,000
Of
men on
the mnster-rolls, 26,482 were absent by

all,
authority.
]\rost
of those, but not nearly
were
sick or
wounded and
thority,
in the hospitals; 6,484 were absent without au-
or in other words,
had
deserted.
His
effective force
numbered about 65,000 men.
His cavalry was
inferior
in
number and
efficiency to the troops of Forrest
and Morgan,
trains.
who rod around

The two armies
the other at
that he
at will, stripping posts
and supply
lay watching each other, the one at Nashville, the impression
Murf reesboro. Kosecrans had given
would remain in winter quarters
at lâshville.
Bragg
sent a strong cavalry detachment under

to
Morgan and Forrest
work upon the supply
trains
and break the Union communica-
tions.
Kosecrans was busily engaged in collecting a supply of

Suddenly, on the 26th of December, he broke camp and
food.
moved forward.
His march was commenced in the
rain.
The
at
Confederates had celebrated Christmas with
much gayety
Murfreesboro.
vance.
Their outposts retreated before the Union ad-
Their cavalry, supported by some militia, skirmished
with the advancing patriots.
The immediate The Union
object
was the
defeat of Bragg's army, and the ultimate object was to get

possession of Chattanooga.
troops present on the
eve of battle numbered 43,000 strong.
The Confederate army

is
was reported by Bragg

as high as 62,000
as 38,000,
though their number
placed
by some
authorities.
Gen. Bragg had placed his army along the bluffs of Stone
river,
near Murfreesboro.
Here, on the
last
day of the year,
110
THE CIVIL
WAR
BT CAMPAIGNS.
battles of the
commenced one of the most sanguinary
war
called the battle of Murfreesboro, or Stone river.
Rosecrans' plan of battle was to throw his left under Crit-
tenden across Stone river, and assail the Confederate right in

force while his
own
right should stand on the defensive.

precisely the
Cu-
riously enough,
Bragg had planned
same
tactics.
He
the
first
placed his right on the defensive, and sent his left to crush
Union
right.
Under such circumstances
the
army moving
open
on a vigorous attack upon the opposing forces would carry
the day.
battle,
While Rosecrans'
left
was crossing the river

assailed,
to
his right
was furiously
and
so unexpectedly
fired.
that two batteries were taken before a
gun could be
The
Confederate success was decisive.

Rosecrans' aggressive movement.
The onslaught paralyzed
He
had
to
withdraw
his left
for the purpose of saving his right.
The Union
lines.
troops were
artillery
driven back.
Rosecrans re-formed his
His
was
posted on a knoll surrounded by a plain.

the
Against this new line
Confederates dashed themselves desperately but vainly.

the hitherto victorious
Four times
great
loss.
army was hurled back with

day's conflict was, on the
But
the result of the
first
whole, decidedly in favor of the Confederates.

one-half of the ground on which the
in the morning, and
They had taken
Union army had encamped
had seized twenty-eight of the Union large
guns.
The enemy's cavalry had committed much havoc upon
Rosecrans' baggage and supply trains, and the Union

lost
army had
heavily in killed and wounded.

a general would have calculated at the close of the day
Many
Ill
how
best to get back to Nashville.
Gen. Rosecrans, however,
took stock of his ammnnition, and found that he had sufficient

left
for another battle.
The
assault of the
enemy upon
the
position to
which Rosecrans' army had retreated in the
after-
noon, had demonstrated his ability to hold his ground here.
Giving orders
to issue all the
ammunition, and marshalling his
troops for every advantage, he lay

the arrival of ITew Year's
down with
his
army
to
to await
Day.
He
had expected
desire
to
keep the
holiday
conflict.
quietly
unless
Bragg should
renew the
Both armies maintained
their
respective positions
throughout the day, with only an occasional artillery duel or a
random skirmish encounter.
On
Jan. 2d the Confederates opened

batteries
fire
with great vehe-
mence from
center and
which they had planted before the Union

first
left.
At
their strength
was overwhelming, but
reinforcements being thrown upon them, they were hurled
back in disorder, with heavy

oners.
loss in killed,
wounded and
pris-
Darkness had now
set in,
which prevented Rosecrans
pressing the advantage he had gained.
pouring rain next day
softened the earth, and impeded the movements of the artillery.
Gen. Bragg however concluded to leave, and commenced the
movement
as stealthily as possible, near midnight.
He
gath-
ered up his men and guns

pickets
so cautiously that even the Federal
knew nothing
of his
movements
until daylight next
morning, Sunday, the 4th.
The manner
in which the operations
upon the rear of the

on the
skill
Union army were
resisted reflected little credit
and
112
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
energy of those who commanded.

oners, mostly stragglers
About two thousand
pris-
and
fugitives,
were taken by the Con-
federates,
and a large amount of baggage and army trains was
taken or destroyed, which no doubt greatly impaired Rosecrans'

ability to
pursue successfully the retreating
foe.
Rosecrans made no movement in pursuit of the Confederates

until the next day.
In his
official
report he says
"
We
learned
that the enemy's infantry
had reached Shelby ville by 12 m. on
Sunday but owing

;
to the impracticability of bringing
up
sup-
plies,
and the
loss of 557' artillery horses,
pursuit was deemed
inadvisable."
Rosecrans reported his losses at 1,533
killed,
wounded
7,000,
and 3,000 prisoners.
Bragg reported
his losses at 10,000, of
whom
9,000 were killed and wounded.
The Union
losses
were
dis-
some greater than those of the Confederates, but the great

aster of the first
day was turned into a dearly purchased victory
the second,
by the gallantry, obstinacy and heroism of Rosecrans
and his men.
Among
those
who
figured prominently in the
Union army
were Gen. McCook, in command of the Union right division;

Gen. Thomas, in
in
command
left.
of the center
and Gen. Crittenden,
command
of the
Bragg retreated
remained inactive
of 1863.
to Shelbyville at
and Tullahoma.
Rosecrans
Murfreesboro until
late in the
summer
Morgan's Raid into Indiana and Ohio, 1862.
While Gen.
Rosecrans at Murfreesboro was accumulating wagons, muni-
BRAGG 'S INVASION OF KENTFCKY.
113
114
tions
and supplies for an advance against Gen. Bragg's army
confronting
him
at
Shelby ville, the noted and generally suc-
cessful cavalry leader, Gen.
John H. Morgan, was preparing
for a
more extended and daring cavalry raid than he had yet

Setting out from Sparta, east and a
little
undertaken.
north
of Murfreesboro, June 27, 1862, Morgan crossed the
Cum-
berland river at Burkesville with a force of 2,028 effectives, and

four guns.
Columbia was partially sacked by
his subordinates,
contrary to orders.
Col. Moore, hastily intrenching himself
with a force of 200 men, by constructing an abatis, at Green

river, valiantly repelled the invaders
on the "glorious Fourth.''
After attacking Lebanon, which was gallantly defended by

Col.
Hanson with 400 men

to surrender.
until the
town was
fired,
compelling
him
Gen. Morgan moved to Shepardsville.
He
ville,
struck the Ohio at Brandenburg, forty miles below Louisand, seizing three steamboats, crossed to the Indiana side.
his progress through
During
Kentucky he had increased

Kentucky sympathizers,
to
his
command, by the addition

troops and ten guns.
of
4,000
Morgan sped inland through Corydon and Palmyra

Ind.,
to
Salem,
where he captured 350 "
Home
Guards."
Passing on in
zigzag lines in an easterly direction through Vienna, tearing up

railroads, cutting telegraphs,
burning
factories,
and inciting
dismay among the inhabitants, he passed
Versailles, Harrison,
and within seven miles of Cincinnati; then by Williamsburg,

Sardinia, Piketon, and Jackson.
He
struck the Ohio at Buffing-
ton Island, not far below Parker sburg, whence he expected an
115
easy escape throngli the poor and thinly settled region of West
Virginia and eastern Kentucky, to the more congenial shades of

southwestern Virginia.
His troops
levied on granaries, barns
and kitchens
as they
marched, bnt the pursuit was so
warm
at
times along the route that they found comparatively

for predatory mischief.
little
time
There had been some skirmishes from day

raiders were too strong for
to day,
but the
any force that could be assembled

tlieii-
on the instant, while their route could not be foreseen; and
movements were too rapid for the pursuing forces, over roads
on which bridges had been destroyed and obstacles cast to impede the progress of the pursuers.
Gen. Hobson, who had been following from the Cumberland
river,
arrived at Brandenburg just after the last boat whi(*h

dis-
aided in conveying Morgan's troops across the Ohio had

appeared.
He
had foreseen that Morgan would again return
to
the Ohio, and sent
at once to Louisville to have the river
patrolled by gunboats.
As soon
as
it
became evident that he

to cross, the
was making for Pomeroy or Gallipolis with intent
inhabitants felled trees across the roads, and imposed obstacles

to
impede the
celerity of their progress.
The weary
a
little
raiders struck the Ohio just at daylight, at a ford
above Pomeroy.
Preparations for crossing the river

tlie
were hastily made, but a volley of musketry upon

companies attempting to
cross, followed
advance
by the roar of cannon
down
the river from the gunboats, and supplemented by the

bluflFs
appearance of three heavy columns of infantry at the
and
116
in the rear and on their right, put the fugitives to flight.

left their
They
guns and wagons; dismounted men and the sick and

to the
wounded
number
of 600 were taken prisoners, while the
rest took a precipitous flight
up along the
river in pursuit of an
avenue of escape.
Passing up the river about fourteen miles to Belleville, Mor-
gan and his remaining men had fairly begun,
at 3 p. m., to
swim
their horses across (330 having gotten away),
when Generals
Hobson and Shackleford,

were again upon them.
in
command
of a division of pursuers,
also appeared, bringing
The gunboats
several regiments to share in the hunt.

fighting, all that
As
there
was no hope
in
now remained
(over 1,000), excepting
Morgan
and a few adherents who escaped, capitulated without further

resistance.
Morgan, now stripped of
his
guns and wagons and miscella-
neous plunder which he had collected, passed inland with the
remnant of
cross the
his force to
McArthur, making a forlorn attempt
to
Ohio
at Marietta.
They then passed

to
to Eastport,
thence to 'New Lisbon.
Here they were driven
a high
blufl'
and surrounded by the home guards and

their track.
'
their pursuers, ever on
Gen. Morgan and several of his

bus,
officers
were taken
to
Colum-
and confined in the penitentiary.
Their heads were shaved,

as-
like those of ordinary felons, for
which no reason has been

it
signed, nor does
it
appear by
ISTo
whom
was ordered,
certainly
not by the Government.
labor was required of them, but
they were confined in
cells.
Seven of them, including Morgan,
BRAGG's invasion of KENTUCKY.
117
dn^
their
waj
out and escaped.
Morgan and Captain Hines,

tlie
after changino- their clotlies, proceeded at once to
depot, got
on the train, which they

carried by
it
knew wonld
start at 1 a. m.,
and were
very near Cincinnati, when they put on the brakes
at the rear of the train, checking its speed,
and jumped
off
and
ran to the Ohio river.
They were
ferried across to Kentucky,
and went
at
once to a house where shelter and refreshments
awaited them.
Morgan made
went
his
way through Kentucky and Tennessee
to
northern Georgia, losing his companion by the way.

to
Thence he
Richmond, where he was received in great ovation, and
again entered the Confederate service in east Tennessee, where
he was killed the next year,
thus ending
a daring and brilliant
career which was directed against the perpetuity of the Union.
CHAPTEIl
TX.
CHATTANOOGA.
Campaign Against Chattanooga, 1863.
remained in Murfreesboro until
late in
Gen.
Rosecrans
June.
His supplies had
been mainly drawn from Louisville, through a semi-hostile

country, over a single railroad.
It required a
heavy guard
at
every depot, bridge, or
trestle, to protect
them from destruction

as
by the enemy's raiders.

proven by past
His cavalry was no match,
had been
ex2:>eriences,
for the Confederate horse, com-
manded by such vigorous and audacious

Forrest,
partisans as Morgan,
best efforts were
and Wheeler.
Though Rosecrans'
given to the strengthening of his cavalry, he could hardly obtain horses fast
enough
to replace those destroyed
by the enemy
or wôrn out by service.
Bragg had 18,000 infantry under Bishop Polk
at Shelbyville,
strongly intrenched and formidably fortified behind five miles
of earthworks.
Eighteen miles back of
this,
in a
mountain
region traversed by bad roads, was another intrenched camp, at
Tullahoma.
Hardee's corps of 12,000 was at Wartrace,
to the
right of Shelbyville.
ville
Besides these, Bragg had troops at Knox-
and Chattanooga.
Perhaps 40,000 was the number he
could concentrate upon the field of battle, while Rosecrans had

not less than 60,000.
If
Bragg
fell
back, destroying railroads

;
and bridges, he would be strengthened

(118)
while Rosecrans would
CHATTANOOGA.
119
be compellerl to extend and protect his commiinifâtions, and

thns his available force for battle would be reduced.
Gen. Rosecrans began his advance on June 24th, and, in a

series of brilliant flank
movements, succeeded in dislodging the
enemy from
his intrenched
camp
at
Tullahoma and Shelbvville

ha'l
and in nine davs, without any serious engagement, he
cleared middle Tennessee of the Confederate army, at a cose of
barely 560 men.
The Confederates
lost as
many
killed
and
wounded, besides 1,634 prisoners who

the
fell into the
hands of
Union
troops.
Bragg retreated toward Chattanooga, a Confederate

hold, the key to eastern Tennessee
strong-
and northern Georgia.
Hav-
ing obtained a fair start while Rosecrans was preparing to fight,
and having the use of a railroad whereon to transport his guns
and supplies, Bragg easily made good his
flight over the
Cum-
berland mountains and across the Tennessee river at Bridgeport,
where he destroyed the railroad bridge behind him.

Kosecrans was expected by the authorities at Washington
follow
to
him
sharply.
Considerable delay occurred from the
time he commenced his movement in pursuit of the fugitives

until he appeared before Chattanooga.
Bragg's devouring host
had
the
left in that
rugged and
sterile region
no vestige of food for
Union army.
To supply men and

was no easy
to Stevenson,
beasts with subsistence in

task.
that mountainous district
After the railroad

to
had been repaired
and the East Tennessee road
Bridgeport, and a considerable quantity of supplies accumulated

at
Stevenson, the
army moved on
towârd Chattanooga.
It
120
crossed the Tennessee river at Bridgeport and Shell
Mound on
September
8th,
and the several corps pushed forward across
high and steep mountains, to concentrate at Trenton, Ga., in the

valley of Lookout creek, which rnns northeasterly into the Ten-
nessee just below Chattanooga.
Gen. Bragg was in a quandary.
He
could hold Chatfanooga
against an assault by Rosecrans' larger army, but if his com-
munications should be cut

question of time wlicn his
tion.
off
from
his rear
it
would be only a
into capitula-
army would be starved
To
divide his forces, or to remain cooped
up
in Chatto
tanooga, wêre both suicidal.
To abandon Chattanooga was
evacuate the only remaining Confederate stronghold in Tennessee.
He
chose the latter, evacuated Chattanooga, and saved

to
his army,
it
what Pemberton attempted

Bragg
do at Vicksburg when
was
too late.
retired southward into Georgia, posting

to Lafayette,
his divisions along the
highway from Gordon's Mill
facing Pigeon Mountain, through whose passes the Union
army
was expected
to
come from McLamore's Cave.
Gen. Critten-
den of Eosecrans' army took peaceful possession of Chattanooga,

and, stationing a garrison there, pursued the
the East
enemy up along The

rest
Chickamauga creek
to
Binggold and Dalton.
of the
Union army
should, according to f)lans, pass through
Dug
at
Gap
of Pigeon Mountain, and swoop
down upon
the
enemy
Lafayette.
Concentration of Confederate
1863.
Troops,
September,
While
these preparations and
movements were going on

around La-
in the
Union camp, Bragg was
silently collecting
CHATTANOOGA.
fayett-T
121
tho
most nn morons and ofFootivo army west of the
Alleghanies, which had ever yet snpported the Confederate

canse.
Gen. Buckner had been called from Knoxville, aban-
doning eastern Tennessee to Burnside; Johnston sent a strong

division under
Walker from the region of the Mississippi; and
Lee, having satisfied himself that
Richmond was
in no danger
from Meade, dispatched Longstrect's heavy corps of veteran

troops
from the TJapidan.
All available troops that conld be
gleaned in Georgia were sent to the front.
Rosecrans estimated
Bragg's entire force as thus strengthened at 92,000

excess over his
great
own
forces.
is
Making
scarcely
all
allowance for incorrect-
ness of estimates, there

erate force
any doubt that the Confed-
outnumbered the Federal.
Rosecrans, believing that the Confederates were on the retreat
toward Rome, separated his divisions for the purpose of

cepting the retreat and of crushing the
inter-
enemy between
to
his col-
umns,
the
same
tactics
which proved fatal
Hooker's army
at Chancellorsville.
Whatever may have been Bragg's intention before he received

the reinforcement, he afterwards determined to meet his adver-
sary in battle.
Rosecrans had not been informed, as he should have been, by
Meade
sent
or Halleck at Washington, that a heavy corps had been

to reinforce Bragg.
from Lee's army, probably
On
the
contrary, Gen. Halleck
had informed Rosecrans that deserters
had reported
ing Lee.
to
him
that a part of Bragg's
army was
reinforc-
122

20, 1863.
Battle of Ohickamauga, September 19
Gen.
Rosecrans by this time was aware that the situation had become
serious,
and began a concentration of his army, which numbered
55,000 strong, while the Confederate army
now
confronting his
was estimated by
the best authority at Y0,000.
The
battle
opened on the morning of September 10th, by Gen.
Bragg's attempt to gain possession of the road to Chattanooga,
and
less
it
continued during the day.

But
felt
doubt-
suffered a greater loss of
men
thus far and had gained no

the
it.
ground for which the Federal army contended.

soldiers
Union Every
were clearly outnumbered
and now they
brigade had been under heavy
fire
during the day, while the

Rosecrans had no
Confederates had several yet in reserve.
reinforcements at hand, and could not expect any.

federate brigades, fresh
night,
Five Conthe
from Virginia, came up during
and were placed where the experience of the day showed

Gen. Longstreet came up and took
they were most needed.
command
regiment.
plined,
of their right wing.
He
was himself worth a whole
The two
armies, equally brave, equally well disci-
and equally well handled, but unequal in number, lay
facing each other for the inevitable conflict on the morrow.
fog having obstructed the operations of the armies, the
conflict
opened
late
next morning, Sunday, September 20th,
and raged with great fury during that day.

defenders of the
Though
the gallant
Union made a valiant and

from the
persistent effort to
drive off the foe, they were assailed with equal valor and fortitude,
and
finally driven
field of action.
CHATTANOOGA.
Rosecrans
retreaterl to Chattanoo^'a
123
and intrrncborl his army
behind the formidable fortifications.
Gen. Bragg followed next
day, taking quiet possession of Lookout
Mountain and Mission-
ary Ridge, whence he looked
down
into the coveted stronghold,
never again destined to fall into Confederate hands.
Gen. Bragg has been assailed by the Confederates for not

pursuing the Union army into C^hattanoDga on the evening of
the 20th.
But human
emlii ranee has a limit.
His men had
been marching their hardest and fighting their best for two
days, with scarcely a pause.
He
had
lost two-fifths of his

''
army.
of the
Bragg
in his official report tersely says:
The darkness
night and the density of the forest rendered further
movement
uncertain and dangerous;
and the army bivouacked on the
ground
it
had
so gallantly won.''
Gen. Thomas did not retreat to Chattanooga, but stopped at

Rossville with 25,000
men
to intercept the
advance of the enemy
upon the former
place.
It seems as though
Bragg might have

at Ross-
improved his victory by dislodging the Union troops

ville,
and by driving them into Chattanooga.

retreat,
Gen. Longstreet, seeing the army in full
urged Gen.
Bragg
to
order a general advance in pursuit of their adversary,

Pleasonton, after the battle of Gettysburg, had
just as Gen.
urged Gen. Meade to do,
and with the same
effect.
The Federal
in killed
losses in battle are officially stated at
16,351
and Avounded.
it is
Mr. Greeley in
his 'Âmerican Conflict"
adds that
perfectly safe to increase this
number by
strag-
124
s:\evs

and imperfect returns
to 20,000.
Bragj2^
admits a
loss of
18,000, of
whom
16,000 mnst have been killed and wounded.

its
Gen. Bragg had won an unmistakable victory, but
fruits
had ended with the

he had
battle-field.
His arms had
triumjilied, but
lost the strategic
point of the campaign,
the
possession
of Chattanooga.
When
he advanced in force and appeared be-
fore the Federal fortifications, not even the fiercest fire-eater
was
ready to storm the defense behind which Rosecrans stood, ready

to
repeat the lesson he gave Price and
Yan Dorn
at Corinth.
Bragg could not carry the coveted stronghold by storm.

was urged to move across the Tennessee and advance
ville..
He
to ISTash-
He
perceived the folly and probable ruin of his

his
army
army,
in this.
His recent reinforcements, constituting half

rail,
had come by
without wagon or horse.

lost
One-third of his
artillery horses
had been
on the
field of battle.
formida-
ble river
had
to be crossed
without pontoons, railroads had been
destroyed, and the offensive

culties sufficient to bring
movement was pregnant with

Union army
diffi-
apparent ruin to the army.

in Chattanooga too
battle,
On
weak
the other hand, with the

in its present state to
meet him in open
he com-
manded
all
the undisputed navigation of the river, and controlled
the railroads radiating
from
that city.
Union supplies had
to be
brought in wagons over mountain roads of inconceivable
badness.
Forage and food were very
scarce,
and for a time the
troops were put on short allowance, while thousands of horses

starved, or were
worked
to death in
wagoning supplies over
tlie
CHATTANOOGA.
mountains.
125
Chattanooga,
So Bragg
settled
down
army
to the siege of
expecting to starve the Union
into capitulation.
While Eosecrans was cooped up in Chattanooga, he

October 19, an order relieving him of the
received,
command
of the army.
Gen. George H. Thomas succeeded him.
Expedition for the Relief of Eastern Tennessee, Sum-
mer OF
18 03.
tlie
Burnside, who had been

of the
tlie
relieved of the comat the
mand
of
Army
Potomac and placed
head of
the Depai'tment of
Ohio, proceeded through Kentucky for

people of
the liberation of the crushed and suffering loyal

eastern Tennessee.
In July and August he collected an army

Nelson, near Richmond, Ky., and comat the
of 20,000
men
at
Camp
menced
Ills
march on Knoxville,
same time that Rosecrans

little
moved cm Chattauooga.
He met
was
with
resistance.
At
passes where a regiment and battery might have temporarily

repelled a corps, not a shot
fedei'ates
fired.
The
flight of the
Con-
at all points
which
tlie
Union army touched was

re-
unexpected and misconstrued.
Burnside believed that the
cent National ti'iumph at Vicksburg, Port
Hudson and
Gettys-
burg had disheartened the enemy, and collapsed the Rebellion

in that region.
This was a mistake: Buckner was simply withdrawing his

force
liave
from
east Tennessee to reinforce Bragg.
This should
been discovered, and averted or counteracted by the addi-
tion of Burnside's forces to Rosecrans'
army.
Burnside should
but he had no
have been under the orders of Rosecrans,

superior except llalleck,
who
failed to concentrate forces at the
126

Rosecrans could not give any
time concentration was needed.

orders to Burnside,
who
in turn had no idea of the former's
danger, which in fact was not in line of his prescribed duty.
He
proceeded for the recovery of eastern Tennessee.
His
ap-
pearance was hailed with delight by the Unionists who had been
forced into Confederate service, or into a manifestation of
Southern
allegiance
under penalty of death.

a house.
Long-hidden
TvTational flags
now waved from many
Bounteous sup-
plies of food, unsolicited,
and cheers and
rejoicings,
welcomed
the return of lâtional authority and protection.
While the army of the Cumberland remained quietly
in
Chattanooga, the Confederates conceived the idea of sending

a force
under Longstreet for the recovery of Knoxville, recently
taken by Burnside.
Advancing
fell
silently
and rapidly wiî a force
estimated at 7,000, he
Philadelphia, Ky.
upon and captured the outposts of

Lenoir, Lonto his
The enemy advanced through
don, and Campbell's Station.
Gen. Burnside retreated
intrenchments in Tvnoxville.
Longstreet pursued him, and on

city.
N"ovember 17th commenced a siege on the
Shelling and
skirmishing served to break the uKjnotony for ten days.
On
the
arrival of reinforcements, Longstreet delivered an assault
upon
the works, and
met a
repulse.
in
While these events were occurring

Gen. Bragg met
a disastrous defeat
relief corps
and around Knoxville,
from the combined forces

was sent from
(
under Gen. Grant; and a

under Gen. Sherman
'liattanooga
to raise the siege of Knoxville,
which was
CHATTANOOGA.
127
128
promptly done.
he
When
Longstreet heard of Sherman's approach,

to Knssellville,
moved rapidly eastward
Va.
The Union
entire loss in this side
campaign was about 1,000,
while that of the
enemy was two
or three times as great.
Concentration of Union Forces at Chattanooga, October AND November, 1863.

alarmed
to
Gen. Halleck became thoroughly

army
at Chattanooga, too late
to
at the peril of Rosecrans'
save
it
from the defeat
at
Chickamauga, but just in time
prevent starvation forcing an unwilling capitulation.
Gen. Halleck telegraphed to Burnside at Knoxville, Hurlbnt

Lit
Memphis, and Grant
at Vicksburg, to
move
troops to the sup

at
port of Rosecrans.
Before Burnside made his appearance
Chattanooga, Bragg had defeated Rosecrans, and sent a force to

operate against him.
Grant was
sick at
New
Orleans, out of
reach of the telegram; and Sherman,
who
represented
him
at
Vicksburg, did not receive

but's corps
it
until
it
was
a fcAv days old.
Hurl-
was put
in
motion eastward.
Gen. Halleck, learning

or
of the reverse at
Chickamauga and not hearing from Grant
Sherman, on September 23d dispatched about 20,000 men, under

the
command
of Gen. Hooker, to Tennessee to hold Rosecrans'

to Bridgeport.
line of
communication from Nashville

rail
They
were sent by
from Washington through Wheeling, Cincinto the Tennessee.
nati, Louisville,
and Nashville,
Gen. Hooker
concentrated his forces at Bridgeport, preparing to dispute with
Bragg the right

as
to use the river
and the highway along
its
bank
an avenue for the transportation of supplies
to the
Union
troops inclosed at Chattanooga.
CHATTANOOGA.
129
this
The road
across the
moimtains used for
purpose imposed
It is esti-
a most laborious and difficult task
upon the
troops.
mated that not

service,
less
it
than 10,000 horses were used up in this
and that
would have been impossible
to
supply our
army
a week longer, by reason of the exhaustion of the horses,

rains.
and the increasing'badness of the roads caused by autunm
Gen. Bragg had sent a large force of cavalry under Wheeler

across the Tennessee river to cut off Thomas's supplies.
In the
Sequatchie valley he captured or burned from 700 to 1,000
wagons with
supplies.
He
He
next struck McMinnville, in the
heart of Tennessee, where he captured 600
men and
a large
quantity of supplies.
this raid,
was pursued by Union cavalry in
and attacked in several sharp engagements, in which
he
lost
about two thousand men, killed and captured.

loss
The
Union
must have been
greater, while the property destroyed
was worth millions.

Gen. Grant was placed in
trated around Chattanooga.
Louisville, Oct. 18, 1863.
command
of
all
forces
now
concenat
He
assumed nominal command

Gen. Thomas
Telegraphing to
to
hold Chattanooga at
hold on
action.
till
all
hazards, he received the answer, " I will
we
starve,"
and proceeded
at
once to the scene of
Gen. Sherman reported

15.
to
Gen. Grant at Chattanooga Tôv.
The
troops which he had brought from Vicksburg as rein-
forcements were speedily arranged to aid in the final assault
upon the enemy's stronghold.
130
the civil
war by
campaigns.
Attack upon Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge,

ISTovEMBER 24-25, 1863.
vision
On November 24 Gen. Hooker's

Hooker's
di-
made
a brilliant assault on Lookout Mountain, upon

fortified itself.
terrific fire,
which the enemy had
men
pressed
forward in the face of a
driving the
enemy before
them from
and
his
their rifle-pits.
On up
the mountains, over boulders
ledges, crests
and chasms, they went.
Hooker had ordered
men
to be halted
and re-formed on reaching the summit of

tide of victory carried
the mountain.
The
them on over the
summit without
halting, until they
had taken many prisoners
and driven the remainder down the precipitous eastern declivity

of the mountain,
victorious army.
when darkness
arrested the progress of the

across Chattanooga valley
their
The enemy passed
and concentrated their forces on Missionary Ridge, posting

front behind breastworks erected by the
Union troops
after the
sanguinary battle of Chickamauga.
The next morning Hooker moved down Lookout Mountain

and began
assault
to cooperate
with Sherman and Thomas in the
final
upon Missionary Ridge.
As
the
Union skirmishers
ad-
vanced, two abreast, with the whole

distance, the
army
in easy supporting
enemy, seized with panic, abandoned the works
at the foot of the hill
and retreated precipitately

In
to the crest,
less
closely
pursued by their conquering adversary.
than an
hour the victorious troops had taken the summit of the ridge.
The Union
The
troops seized the abandoned and yet-smoking guns
of the enemy, and turned

fall of the
them upon
their panic-stricken owners.
night ended the pursuit of the retreating foe
CHATTANOOGA.
131
bj the Federal troops, but next day Hooker resumed pursuit

as far as Ringgold,
where he remained until Dec. 1st

to
Immediately after the battle Gen. Sherman went

relief of Burnside,
the
who was
shut
up
in Knoxville, and com-
pelled Longstreet to raise the siege
and decamp.
Gen. Grant estimated his
loss in the series of struggles at

total, 5,6
1
757
killed,
4,529 wounded, 330 missing;

loss in killed
C.
Bragg's
and wounded was comparatively
light,
since his fighting
was mainly behind breastworks.

the struggle and
its
On
the
whole, his
army was weakened by

Union
results
by about 10,000 men, and Chattanooga remained in undisputed

possession of the
troops.
CHAPTEE
X.
SHERMAN'S MARCH ON ATIÂNTA.

Sherman's March on Atlanta, 1864.
was promoted
all
When Gen. Grant
to the
rank of Lieutenant-General, commanding
the forces of the Union, Gen.
W.
T.
Sherman was assigned
to the
command
of the military division of the Mississippi, com-
prising the Departments of the Ohio, the Cumberland, the
Tennessee, and the Arkansas.

4th, 1864, at
He
received the order
March
Memphis, and proceeded
to ITashville at once,
full to his
where he met Gen. Grant, who unfolded his plans in

most trusted subordinate, and discussed
at length the great
campaigns soon to be inaugurated against Eichmond and Atlanta.
These campaigns were to begin simultaneously on the
Eapidan and on the Tennessee.
They were
to be pressed so
vigorously that neither of the Confederate
main armies could
spare any troops to reinforce the other, as they had done at
Chattanooga to the discomfiture of Gen. Eosecrans.
When
it
Gen. Sherman received final instructions from Grant,
was decided that the campaign should be inaugurated in the

Accordingly, with the opening of May,
beginning of May.
Sherman
left his
winter quarters around Chattanooga, with an

to nearly 100,000. to the one
army now augmented

but in cavalry
it
In every other way
was superior
which confronted
it.
(132)
Sherman's march on Atlanta.
133
As Sherman advanced
into Georgia, the necessity of maintain-
ing his communications greatly reduced the force in front,
which was probably T0,000.
Johnston had about 50,000, but
was in time considerably reinforced.
The country from Chattanooga

ular.
to Atlanta is
rough and
irreg-
There are rugged mountains and deep narrow ravines,

rivers,
and broad valleys traversed by two considerable
suc-
ceeded again by a rugged mountain region with narrow and
bad roads.
Gen. Bragg was relieved of the
command
of the
Army
Gen.
of the
Tennessee in December, and called to Richmond, where he

acted for a time as military adviser for Mr. Davis.
J.
E.
Johnston,
who had been wounded
in the battle of Seven Pines,
and afterward commanded the Confederate forces in Mississippi,
was transferred
to his
command
Dec. 18, 1864, with
headquarters at Dalton.
Johnston's position at Dalton was
covered by an impassable mountain.
Sherman preferred not
to
hazard an engagement by an attack upon this position.
While
Thomas was feigning an

flanked the
attack
upon the
front,
McPherson
enemy by moving on Resaca through Snake Creek

The Union
foe,
Gap.
he
fell
Johnston was compelled to evacuate his stronghold, and

rapidly back to Resaca.
troops occupied
Dalton on the heels of the departing
and pressed sharply
toward Resaca.
Sherman's
tactics
were uniform through
this
campaign,
though they varied in detail as exigencies arose.
He
marched
left
with his center upon the enemy, while he sent a right or
134
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
flanking party where the nature of the country afforded best
opportunities for success.
Johnston avoided an engagement unless advantages were

strongly in his favor.
Sherman by
Each
skillful
maneuvers forced
Johnston from his stronghold.

in
strove to gain an advantage

to be able to fall
bringing about a
conflict.
Johnston hoped
upon Sherman's troops and crush them
after they
had moved
into the heart of the Confederate country. flank
Sherman hoped, by
campaign shows how
in
movements
to bring the
enemy from behind earthworks,
and then defeat him.
The
result of the
well Sherman succeeded.
His marches on Atlanta stand
glaring contrast with those bloody conflicts between Grant and
Lee in the Overland Campaign.
second flanking movement wâs sent out by
Sherman's
right, to turn
Johnston out of Resaca.

still
This was met by an
attack
upon Hooker and Schofield

repulse,
in his front.
The enemy
was some
met a
less.
and
lost
about 3,000.
Sherman's
loss
Johnston retreated, and attempted to make a stand at
Adairsville against the
Union
center, but on the approach of the
main body he continued
his retreat to Cassville
and Kingston.
11
TJpon being pressed here, he again retreated to

the country
is
a toon a,
where
again mountainous.
He
doubtless had expected
to fight in earnest here.
Another flanking movement by Sherman far

Dallas, brought an engagement at Jêw
to 28, four miles north of Dallas.
to the right,
on
Hope Church, May 25

lost
The Confederates
3,000
and Sherman 2,400.
135
Johnston meantime had been gathering his detachments and

receiving reinforcements, until his
fell
army numbered
62,000.
He
back to Marietta, with Bush Mountain on his right, Kenehis center,
saw Mountain on
and Pine Mountain on
his left.
series
There were skirmishes between the opposing forces for a

of days.
On
says
:
the 27th of June,
Sherman ordered an
assault.
Sherman
of
as
" I ordered an assault with the full cooperation
my
great lieutenants, Thomas, McPherson, and Schofield,
good and true
men
as ever lived
and died for their country's
cause; but
of 630.
we
failed, losing
3,000
men
to the Confederate loss
Still,
the result was, that within three days Johnston

full re-
abandoned the strongest possible position, and was in

treat for the Chattahoochie river.
We
were on his
heels, skir-
mished with
his rear at
Smyrna Church on
the 4th day of July,
and saw him fairly across the Chattahoochie on the 10th, covered
and protected by the best
seen,
line of field intrenchments I

.
have ever
prepared long in advance.
We
had advanced into
the enemy's country 120 miles, with a single track of railroad,
which had
to bring clothings
food,
ammunition, everything
animals.
requisite for 100,000
men and 25,000
The
city of
Atlanta, the gate city, opening the interior of the important

State of Georgia,
was
in sight; its protecting
army was shaken
but not defeated, and onward
we had
Gen.
to go."
Gen. Johnston, too weak in force to take the offensive, conducted

a
masterly retreat.
Sherman, too shrewd
to
slaughter his
men
in useless assault
upon strongly
fortified
works, flanked the
enemy from
his stronghold, as he
watched
136
opport.imitios to inflict piinisliiiiciit
upon him.
Thus the movere-
ment from Chattanooga

treats
to
Atlanta consisted of a series of
on the part of Johnston and flank movements on the part
of Sherman, during which a
number
of engagements took place.
Dalton,
Pass,
Resaca,
Adairsville,
Cassville,
Kingston,
river,
Allatoona
Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahoochie

the successive retreats of Johnston.
and Atlanta,
mark
The Defeat of Hood and the Fall of Atlanta,

tember
2,
Sep-
1864.
The
" retreating policy " of Johnston was
not approved by the authorities at Richmond, and Gen. John
R. Hood, an
officer of
great reputation for energy and impetto
uous bravery, was appointed

of
succeed him.
With
this
change
a most
commanders came a change
of policy, by which
vahiable service was rendered to the Federal cause.
Johnston
had not been able
to
prevent Sherman's persistent, determined,
and generally
in
skillful advance.
He
had
lost
about 15,000
men
two months by a defensive campaign.
He
had
settled to
the defense of Atlanta Avith the Chattahoochie river to his left
and Peach creek on his
right,
when Gen. Hood assumed comto the
mand.
About 51,000 men were turned over
new com-
mander, who proceeded to bring them into deadly action at

once.
Sherman, after crossing the Chattahoochie river and Peach

creek,
was vehemently
assailed,
July 19, by Hood's army, which

loss
met
a disastrous repulse.
The Union
about 5,000.
was about 1,500,
while
Sherman estimated
the loss of his opponent in killed,
wounded, and prisoners,
at

Grn.
137
Hood
fell
hack
to
within a couple of miles of Atlanta,
behind the strong line of defense consisting of redonbts, abatis,
and
rifle-pits,
constructed
in
1863.
Leaving a small force
behind his works, he
made
a long night
march with
his
main
body, expecting to fall npon the Union left and to crush the
successive divisions before thej could support one another.
Gen. Hardee struck an unexpected blow at Smith's division

of Blair's corps.
Gen. McPherson, while riding in fancied
security through the woods to the rear of that division, wâs shot
dead as he gave an order to
fill
up
a gap into which the Confed-
erates wêre pouring like a torrent.
McMurry's battery was

his forces,
surprised and taken.
But
after
Sherman massed
and when the
first
shock of surprise had disappeared, the
triumphant beginning of the enemy's assault was turned into

defeat,
and then a rout
to his defenses.
The Union
3,722, of
loss in this
stubborn contest of July 22d was
whom
1,000 were prisoners.
The Confederate
loss
during the day as estimated by Gen. Sherman was 8,000, of
whom
1,000 were prisoners.
Gen. Stoneman was dispatched with 5,000 cavalry on a raid

against the railroads in Hood's rear.
He
was
to be joined at
Lovejoy by a division under Gen. A. O. McCook, numbering

4,000.
Stoneman did not arrive

force, being confronted
at the appointed time;
and
McCook's
by militia brought from Misand being pursued by
sissippi to aid in the defense of Atlanta,
the Confederate cavalry,
was compelled
to flee for safety, after
having destroyed a considerable quantity of Hood's supplies.
138
Gen.
THE OIVIL WAR BY CAMPAIGNS.
Howard
succeeded to the
command
of
tlie
Army
of the
Tennessee on the death of Gen. McPherson.
Gen. Hooker,
considering himself disparaged, was relieved from the

of his corps at his
command
own
request,
and Gen. Slocum succeeded him.
The Army
extreme
of the Tennessee
was now shifted from Sherman's
left to his
extreme right, in a movement to flank Hood

Gen.
out of Atlanta by cutting the railroad in the rear.

detected the movement, but not until the Federal
Bufficient
Hood
logs
army had
and
time to hastily construct a breastwork of
rails
before being assailed by the enemy.

the
Hood, expecting
to catch
army
in disorder, or at least unprepared, hurriedly brought
his forces
from the west of Atlanta, and impetuously charged

forces,
upon the Union
July 28th.
fire as
But
the Confederates were
swept down by a murderous

driven back.
they approached, and were

to
Again and again they were re-formed and led

by
the assault, only to have their brave ranks decimated

vigilant opponents.
their
Finally the foolish assault
was abandoned.
Sherman estimated
was only 600
Gen.
;
the Confederate loss at 5,000, while his
own
but
Hood admits
a loss of 1,500 only.
Hood
to
divided his forces to guard his communications
from Kilpatrick's cavalry raid.

his
He
sent
Hardee with half
of
men
Jonesborough,
while
he
remained at Atlanta.
Several engagements occurred between Hardee's and Howard's

divisions, to the discomfiture of the former.
On
the night before Sept. 1st, ominous soimds indicated to
Sherman, who was about twenty miles away, that something
momentous was happening
at Atlanta.
Supposition pointed to
139
the truth, that
Hood, completely outgeneraled, and

stores,
at his wit's
end,
was hlowing up the magazines, burning

little
and prepar-
ing to leave Atlanta with the
he could carry with him,
deprived as he was of the use of the railroads.
Gen.
Sherman occupied Atlanta
Sept.
2d.
Establishing
headquarters in the city, he ordered the removal of the remaining inhabitants to the North or to the South as each preferred.
This order was. considered an act of great inhumanity and

cruelty,
by the Confederate
officers;
but in truth
spirit
it
was a deed
of kindness,
prompted by nobility of
toward a helpless
people in
region which was stripped of food and every avenue
for furnishing an
immediate supply.
Every one who could
shoulder a musket or drive a team had been conscripted into the
Tonfederate army.
dries
All the machine-shops, factories and founto the
which had done good service
Confederates had been
dpstroyed by
left
Hood
before leaving Atlanta.
Nonfood had been
by his army in Atlanta, and none could be sent from the

It
adjacent country, whoever might perish.

great
would have
cost
sums
if it
for the
Government
to feed these helpless people,
even
had been at
all practicable.
To
let
them stay and

for the
starve
would have been cruel and barbarous.
THe order
removal was therefore wise, provident, and humane.
The
re-
moval was effected quietly,

to
at E'ational cost.
Those preferring
to
go South, numbering 2,035 persons, were taken in wagon
camp
called "
Rough and Ready."

rail to
Those who preferred
to
go
North were taken by
Chattanooga.
Gen. Grant, speaking of Sherman's memorable march to At-
140
lanta, sajs
^^
:
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
The campaign had
lasted about four months,

history.
and
was one of the most

little if
memorable in
There was but

it is
anything in the whole campaign, now that
over, to
credita-
criticize at all,
and nothing
to criticize severely.
It
was
ble alike to the general
who commanded and

this
the
army which
bright,
h^d executed
it.
Sherman had on
campaign some
wide-awake division and brigade commanders whose alertness
added a host
to the efficiency of his
command.
The news
of
set
Sherman's success reached the North instantaneously, and

the country all aglow.
It
was followed
;
later
by Sheridan's
campaign in the Shenandoah Valley
and these two campaigns
probably had more effect in settling the Presidential election of

the following INTovember, than all the speeches,
all
the bonfires,
and
all
the parading with banners and bands of music in the
JN-orth."
In the campaign from
May
7th to September
1st,
the Con-
federate loss in killed and wounded, as recorded in the
War
pris-
Records, was 22,400

oners.
besides these,
Sherman took 13,000
The Union
losses
during the same period of time were
nearly 32,000 men.
Hood's
March
ISTorth,
September, 1864.
is
The
task of
supplying any large army with food

task of supplying Sherman's
momentous.
this
But
the
ex-
army on
campaign was
tremely
difficult,
passing as he did into the heart of the hostile

districts,
territory,
through mountainous
over bad wagon-roads,
with but a single railroad connecting him with the North.
141
ISTashville, his
principal depot of supplies, was 130 miles

is
away
from Chattanooga, which
more than 100 miles from Atlanta. from Louisville over a

single rail-
The
supplies were brought
road by
tlie
way
of Nashville and Chattanooga, to Atlanta.
All
bridges, trestles and culverts along the railroad had to be
guarded from the depredations of the enemy's cavalry and from

the vandalism of a hostile population.
^
Gen. Hood, after being driven from Atlanta, decided

advantage of Sherman's long line of supplies.
to take
Being reinforced,
he moved around Atlanta, and pushing rapidly north, he began

tearing
up the
railroad,
breaking down the telegraph, and
threatening Sherman's line of communication.

to
He
expected
division
be able to draw the Union army from Georgia.
of Hood's army, under Gen. French, marching

Dallas, attacked Allatoona, Oct. 5, 1864, which
up through
was defended
by about 2,000
had in
his
men under Gen. John M. Corse. Gen. French command about 5,000 men, who furiously assaulted
Gen. Corse and This brave commander
the works, but were repeatedly driven back.
men
valiantly held out until aid came.
himself was wounded in the face, and 707 of his
men
being
or
more than one-third of

wounded.
his
whole number
were
killed
While the
battle
was raging. Gen. Sherman stood on Kenesaw

flags,
Mountain, eighteen miles south, and, by means of signal
conveyed from peak to peak, over the heads of the enemy, the
glad tidings of approaching aid in the famous message which
142
THE CIVIL
WAR
BY CAMPAIGNS.
TTolri the
has been perpetuated in the well-known song, "
Fort,"
by P. P. Bliss:
"
see the signal sky Reinforcements now approaching Victory is nigh."
!
Ho
my comrades,
in the
Waving
Chorus "Hold the
fort," etc.
Gen. Sherman pursued the enemy through Rome, Resaea,

Villanow, Lafayette, to Gaylesville, Alabama.
of a
After the lapse
week he became convinced that
his adversary
was endeav-
oi'ing to
draw him out of Georgia, and refused

fight,
to follow
him
who would not

cumbered
as
and
whom
he could not overtake,
uninHe
at
Hood
was, without any heavy wagon-trains.
directed Stanley with the Fourth corps and Schofield with the
Twenty-third to march to Chattanooga and thence report

Nashville, to Thomas,
28, to
who had been

foe.
dispatched thither Sept.
meet the retreating
After Sherman had become assured that
Thomas was
strong
enough
to
meet Hood's army, which now consisted of 35,000
infantry and 10,000 cavalry, he turned his
army southward.
Gathering up his garrison, and sending some to Chattanooga

tu aid in the
defense of Tennessee, destroying foundries and

loose
mills
at
Rome, cutting
from
all
communications, and
forces,
drawing around him
all his
remaining
Sherman made
which became a
preparations for the great "
March
to the Sea,"
potent factor in hastening the downfall of the Rebellion.
Hood's Tennessee Campaign, November to December,
1864.^Gen. Geo. H. Thomas had been detached from
the
main
'''L'i^H,;
143
of
tlie
army
the
in Georgixi, and given
command
of the
Army
Ten-
nessee with the widest discretionary powers in the conduct of
campaign against Tlood.
Gen. Grant, in his camp before
Richmond, could hardly believe that Hood was moving on Nashville,

''
which/' as he said, " seemed to be leading to his certain
doom."
Gen. Hood was reinforced by part of Gen. Dick Taylor's
army from
the South.
His entire force thus augmented was
near 55,000 men.
Gen. Thomas had as
many men now under

all
his
command
as
to
Hood
had, and probably more, counting

at various posts
from Knoxville
Memphis, stationed
and depots.
They were
chiefly fragments of regiments
and brigades guarding supplies,
bridges, etc.
all
To abandon
these points might involve the loss of
that
had been gained in the campaign in Tennessee.
Not
to
abandon them greatly reduced the available force
to actively
oppose Hood.
Excluding those guarding posts and depots, he
had no more than 30,000 men.

Gen. Forrest, leading a large body of cavalry, preluded
Hood's advance.
suddenly
fell
Crossing the Tennessee near Waterloo, he

23,)
upon and took Athens, Alabama, (September
invested by 600 colored troops.
Skirmishing heavily at Pulaski
and Tullahoma, he passed through Columbia, Mt. Pleasant, and

Lawrenceburg.
done
He
crossed the Tennessee safely, after having
much damage and captured

to Corinth
about one thousand prisoners.

to Johnsonville,
He moved
and thence
where some
144

off to join
sharp fighting ensued, and then set
Hood
in his inarch
upon
^N'ashville.
Gen.
Hood Hood
did not attempt to cross the Tennessee while

at Kingston.
Sherman remained
Decatur,
After making a feint on
passed on to Tuscumhia and then to Florence.
After hearing that Sherman had cut loose from his base at
Atlanta and started southward on his " Great March,"
Hood
made preparations
his shattered record
for a
movement
into Tennessee to retrieve
by a
brilliant stroke against
Thomas.
On
south
set
'Nov. 17, the division of
Hood's army stationed on the
])ank of the Tennessee, at
Florence, effected a crossing, and
out with the rest on their march into Tennessee.
Passing
through
Hill,
Ill's
Waynesboro, Lawrenceburg, Columbia, and Spring
army moved toward
lâshville.
Gen. Thomas had been apprised of the departure of Gen.
Sherman from Atlanta, and, relying upon
his
own
resources,
re-
he began a campaign against the approaching foe, which

sulted in the destruction of Hood's army.
Gen. Thomas, keeping a firm front, gradually

Nashville, gathered strength as he retreated.
fell
back toward
the 30th of
On
November Gen.
and threw up a
Schofield halted a few miles south of Franklin

slight breastwork, intending to stop while his
wagon-trains, which blocked the road for

gotten across the
many
miles, should be
Harpeth
river.
Franklin
is
situated eighteen miles south of "N'ashville, in a
bend of the
river,
which forms a rude square when united with

defenses.
the line of the
Union
Gen. Schofield's
command

iiuiiibered
145
already
about 20,000 men, a part of
whom had
crossed the stream to guard the trains and the flanks of the
Union
position.
The number
that confronted the Confederate
advance was not much above 10,000.

so
The enemy's charge was

checked by the outworks,
impetuous and heavy
that, scarcely
tliey
broke through the Union center, took eight guns, and
planted their flag in triumph on the

valiant
Union breastworks.
But
and
brilliant charge
by Opdycke's brigade drove the
enemy
back, recovered all that
had been
lost,
and took a number
of prisoners.
All efforts to retake the lost breastworks by the

vain,
enemy proved
and assault after assault was repulsed with
great loss to the assailants.

ten o'clock at night.
The
conflict
continued until about
little
after midnight, after the trains
were well on their way
to Kashville, the
Union men
quietly
drew out of
their defenses,
and by noon next day the
sleepless
heroes were safe within the defenses at JSTashville.
In the report of the
battle Gen.
Thomas
gives 189 killed,

all
1,033 wounded, and 1,104 missing,

prisoners.
nearly
of the latter
He
reported the enemy's loss at 1,750 killed, 3,800

total, 6,252.
wounded, and 702 prisoners;

a loss of only 4,500.
Gen.
Hood admits
Gen.
2
Assault on Nashville, Dec.
15,
1864.
;
Hitherto,
Thomas had encountered
considerable odds
but
when on Dec.
Hood
With
settled
down
before Nashville, the case became reversed.
his losses at Franklin,
and casualties and hardships of an
offensive
and unseasonable campaign, his numbers were reduced
to about forty thousand.
10
146
Gen. Thomas had received Gen. A. J. Smith's

Missouri, 5,000 of Sherman's
command from
men from
Chattanooga, under
Gen.
J.
B. Steedman, and the garrison at Kashville and other
reinforcements, until his

try clearly
inferior to
army numbered
55,000.
His infanwas
a
outnumbered that of Hood's, but

that
his cavalry
to
confronting him.
He
paused
mount
few thousand more men before challenging Hood

conflict.
to a decided
Gen. Grant, now General-in-chief of

perplexed at the threatening dangers of
all
tlie
the Federal forces,
strong Confederate
the
army
in the heart of Tennessee, left his
camp on
James
to
inspect affairs in the West.
He He
became convinced that
his
commander
in
Tennessee, like
Sheridan in the Shenandoah

returned to his
Valley, needed no supervision.

diate
own imme-
command
for the prosecution of his
momentous campaign
against Lee and Richmond.
Gen.
Hood
established his lines south of ISTashville, a part of

six
which were within
hundred yards of the Union
center.
week of cold weather ensued, wherein both armies became

Hood's men, poorly clad and sheltered, suffered more
inactive.
than the Union men.

ened. Gen.
When
at length the
temperature
soft-
Thomas
issued orders, Dec. 14th, for a general ad-
vance upon the Confederate lines the next day.

broke auspiciously
;
The morning
a dense fog concealed the

assault
movements of the
deter-
Union
troops.
The
was made with great vigor and
mination.
The
close of the first
day found 16 of the enemy's
guns, 1,200 prisoners and 40 wagons in possession of the
Union

troops, while its losses
147
had been
light.
Never had men fought
with greater alacrity and more steadiness.
The next day
the
Confederates
ended.
were completely routed,

began a disorderly
and Hood's invasion
He
flight south, his
army
utterly
demoralized.
In the two-days battle Thomas had taken 4,462 prisoners,

including 287
officers,
many
small arms, and 53 gims.
The next day

foe vigorously.
the cavalry under Wilson pursued the retreating
They made
at the
a stand at Franklin, attempting to

river,
defend the crossing

to
Harpeth
but they were foi'ced
decamp, leaving behind 1,800 of their wounded in the
hospital,
and 200 of ours formerly taken, besides 400 prisoners.
Another stand was made by the enemy's rear guard four miles
south of Franklin, but
it
was soon routed and dispersed by

almost incessantly, until the brooks
destroyed the bridges, after crossdifficult.
Wilson's cavalry.
Eain
fell
became raging
rivers.
Hood
ing them, making pursuit very
After several partial
engagements, he succeeded in making his escape with the remnant of his army.
ington, Ala.
The pursuit was continued

learning that
as far as Lex-
When
Hood had
a halt.
crossed the Tennes-
see at Bainbridge,
Thomas ordered
Gen. Forrest,
who had been
sent on a cavalry raid, rejoined
Hood
at
Columbia.
Brig. Gen. Lyon,

ville,
who had been
sent
by Hood while
at lâsh-
with 800 cavalry to tear up the Louisville railroad, had
his entire
command
destroyed or taken prisoners.
After surren-
148
dering, he escaped in the darkness
by seizing a
pistol
and
shooting a sentinel.
Hood's army had almost ceased to

it
exist.
What remained
^^
of
was stationed
at Tupelo, Miss.,
when Hood was
relieved of
its
command
In
this
at his
own
request," Jan. 23, 1865.

7,
campaign, from Sept.

lost in killed,
less
1864, to Jan. 20, 1865, Gen.
Thomas had
wounded and missing about 10,000

loss of the
men, which was
than one-half the
enemy.
He
had taken as prisoners nearly 1,000
officers,
from Major General

officers
down
to the lowest rank,
and 10,895 non-commissioned
and privates. amnesty
He
had administered the oath of submission and

and exchanged 1,332 men, and had
to 2,207 deserters,
taken a large number of small arms and large guns.
CHAPTER XL
SHERMAN'S GRKAT MARCH TO THE SEA.
Sherman's Great March to the Sea, 1864.
man's army, which
set
Gen.
Sher-
out for the
^^
Great March
" through
the heart of the Confederacy, nurahered about 60,000 infantry
and 5,500 cavalry.
After concentrating these around
Rome
and Kensington, Ga., and destroying everything which might

be used to his injury by the enemy, he sent his parting messages,
and
set off,
Nov. 11th, on his memorable march
to the sea.
His
command movpd forward
in two grand wings, the right led by
Gen. O. O. Howard, comprising the Fifteenth Corps under Gen.

P. J. Osterhaus and the Seventeenth under Gen. Frank P.
Blair; the left by Gen.
Henry W. Slocum, comprising
the
Fourteenth Corps under Gen. Jeff C. Davis and the Twentieth
under Gen. A.
S.
Williams.
Gen. Judson Kilpatrick led the
cavalry, which careered in front and on either flank of the
infantry, so as to screen, as far as possible, the

the
movements of
to
army from
the detection of the enemy.
Moving rapidly
Atlanta,
Howard pased through ]McDonough,

They destroyed
Monticello, and
Gordon; while Slocum advanced by Covington, Madison and Eaton

to Milledgeville.
railroads
and
little
facto-
ries as they
sition.
advanced, meeting thus far with very
oppo-
Each subordinate commander was

(149)
instructed to live on
the country so far as possible, and save the twenty days' bread
150 qnd forty days'
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
hoof, coffee
and sugar, and three days' forage,

a dash on
?ontained in the wagons.
The cavalry made
Macon,
driving off the (Confederate cavalry, hnt was nnable to carry

ihe woi'ks behind wliich the
enemy's infantry was posted.
At Millen, on
Bonville to
the
Ontral Kailroad, half-way from Sandera
Savannah, was
great prison camp.
Many
TTnion
men
to
that had been captnred wêre confined here, and subjected
unspeakable privations and hardships.
Sherman intended
wîth
to liberate them.
To
this
end he sent Kilpatrick
most of
his cavalry far to his left, so as to
convey an impression that

coast.
the
army was making
for
Augusta rather than for the
But
this failed of the desired end.
Millen was reached on the
3d of December, but the prisoners had previously been removed.
Destruction of Railroads.
right
The
To do
railroads were destroyed
and
left as the
army moved
south.
Bridges were burned
and culverts destroyed, while the track was torn up for long
distances,
and the
rails twisted.
this rapidly, the soldiers
would form a
line along the road, and, with

rails,
ties,
crowbar and poles

Others
placed under the
pry up long distances at a time.

place the rails across
would
pile
up the
them lengthwise,
the rails wêre
and then
set fire to the ties.
In
this
manner
heated in the middle more than at the ends, and Avere easily
twdsted so as not to be of any further use.
Some
of the rails
were carried
to the nearest trees,
and bent around them as bands
ornamenting the trees of Georgia.

rails,
Some crews
tore
up the
while
others piled
up the
ties;
some carried the
rails,
161
others twisted them: so the
work progressed methodirally and
rapidly with the movernents of the army.
Supplying the Army.
The organization
for snpplying the
army was very

to
complete.
Eaeh hrigade fnrnished a company
gather supplies of forage and provisions for the
command
was
to
which
it
belonged.
Pillaging was strictly forbidden, but
everything in the shape of food for

taken.
man
*'
or forage for beast

as they
These foraging parties
or
bummers,"
were
popularly called
went out for miles on
either side of the army.
Starting in advance of the organization to Avhich they belonged,
and gathering great quantities of provisions, they returned

the line of march,
till
tx)
where each stood guard over his

along,
pile of food
to the
his
own brigade came
when
it
was turned over
brigade commissary and quartermaster.

in the
When
foot,
they started out
morning they were generally on
but scarcely any of
them returned
in the evening without being

in for the use of the
mounted on
horses,
which were turned

the
army.
The
progress of
column was not permitted
to be interrupted
to
by the reception
as
of the forage.
Everything had
be loaded upon the wagons
they moved.
The South
runaway
to
prior to the Rebellion kept bloodhounds to pursue
slaves
and escaped convicts, and now they were used

Orders were issued
to kill all of
capture escaped prisoners.
these animals as they were found.
The imagination
of the
troops converted every species of dog into the bloodhound, so

that even the poodle
had no
lease
on
life in the
presence of the
advancing blue-coats.
152
Alarisi
South and ITorth.
Sherman's
march
to
through
Georgia caused groat alarm in the Soutli, and

the Tôrth.
battalions,
some extent in
If words and hlnster could avail against heavy
Sherman's army wonld have been annihilated in a

consternation became
day.
As he moved southward,
more
pro-
nounced and the people more

the military colleges
frantic.
Cadets were taken from

ranks of the militia.
and added
to the
Convicts were released from jails under a promise to serve in

the Confederate army.
The Legislature
of Georgia passed an
act levying the population en ma^sse into military service,
and
then fled in great confusion as Sherman's hosts neared the State

capital.
All efforts to check the advancing columns were futile.
Hardee,
Wayne and Wheeler
collected
some forces that hovered
around the Union
flanks, the
most serious of which was the
cavalry under Wheeler, whose presence and skirmishes caused
some annoyance, but no detention.

to
The
foragers were compelled
defend themselves frequently from the scattered forces of the
enemy, but the casualties were small.

Southern newspapers, commenting on Sherman's troops, depicted
them
as in the
most deplorable condition, saying that they
were greatly demoralized, and aimlessly wandering around,

with the hope of reaching the seacoast to come under the protection of the
Union gunboats.
Some
of these papers reached the
North.
This news caused Lincoln some alarm, as he had not

It
heard from Sherman since he had cut loose from Atlanta.
produced much mental distress among the friends and relatives

of those
who were
serving under Sherman's banners.
The
con-
153
firlence
which Grant and Lincoln had
in
Sherman's ability
served to bridge over the period of suspense consequent upon the
absence of any definite and authentic news from or about him.
Capture of Savannah, December, 1864.

cember dispelled
The
as a
receipt of
the folloAvinc" loloc^rain by President Lincoln on the 22d of Deall
donbt as to Sherman's safety, and caused

:
much joy
in the
North " I beg
to present to
you
Christmas
gift the city of
Savannah, with 150 guns and plenty of ammu-
nition; also about 2,500 bales of cotton."
'No events of special note occurred on the

to
march from Millen

and garri-
Savannah.
This place was found
to be intrenched
soned by 10,000 troops nnder Gen. Hardee.

at once to invest the place,
Sherman proceeded
which was commenced on the 10th of
December.
Starting Avith some troops to open communication

fleet in
with the Union
the lower harbor, he encountered Fort
McAllister, which was soon taken by an assault
made by Gen.
Hazen's division.
fleet.
Communications were then opened with the
The
hearts of the
men were made
glad by the message
that a vessel bearing the accumulated mail for the
army was
there with supplies, which the troops were supposed to need.
Sherman returned on the
15th, to complete arrangements for an
effective siege of that place.

to be complete,
When
the investment
was supposed
he
summoned Hardee
invested,
to surrender,
who
replied
that he
was not completely
and refused
to surrender.
During the dark and windy night of December
20th,
Hardee
made
his escape
by crossing the Savannah river on a pontoon
bridge,
and marching up the causeway road toward Charleston.
154
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNB.
The next mornirig found

city before the
the National
of
it
army
in possession of the
bombardment
had fairly commenced.

the reach of immediate
Bnt
the Confederate
army was beyond
pursuit; so Gen.
Sherman remained
in the city a month, resting
and
refitting
his
army, preparatory to resuming his march
through the Carolinas.
The
loss in the
march of 255
miles,
killed,
which was accomplished
in six
weeks of time, was 63
245 wounded, and 149 missing.
It resulted in the conquest of

gîiis,
Georgia, the capture of 1,328 prisoners and 167

seizing of a vast
the
amount
of provisions, cattle, horses,
etc.,
and
the destruction of millions of dollars' worth of shops, foundries
and railroads Avhich had helped support the Rebellion.
The promise
of freedom to the slaves, which should follow the
triumph of the Union cause, brought a swarm of negroes in

search of information and to satisfy their curiosity, to the rear
of Sherman's army, notwithstanding every effort had been used
by Sherman and his

at
officers to
induce them to remain quietly

its
home.
About 10,000 accompanied the army on
march
to
the sea.
Many
of these were assigned to the lands on the Sea
Islands, which were
abandoned by the Confederates when Gen.

S. F.
Thos.
W. Sherman and Commodore
Dupont
directed an the settle-
expedition against them in the fall of 1861.
From
ment upon
these islands developed, after the close of the war, one
of the chief sources of em2:)loynicnt for the Freedman's
Aid
Bureau.
Sherman's March throitgh the Carotjnar, Spring of

1865.
Gen. Grant had planned
to take
Sherman and
his
army
155
from Savannah
to the
James
river by water, and so informed
Sherman.
On
receipt of this letter, he at once began prepara-
tions for the removal of the
army on
it
transports to aid Grant

to
around Richmond.
Seeing that
wonld take a long time
collect the transports for his
60,000 men and their eqnipage, he
snggested.
marching north through the Carolinas.

it
Grant
ac-
cepted and approved the plan, as

snccessfnl,
contained,
if
only partially
many
features of embarrassment to the foe.

as he went, he
By
marching north, living upon the country
would
be able to devastate the sources of supplies for the Confederate
army.
The
trans-Mississippi region had long ago been cut
off.
Sheridan had desolated the Shenandoah Valley.

of the seaports had
The blockade
become more stringent.
Ge/)rgia had lost
her ability to render
much
assistance or furnish
many
supplies.
Outside of Virginia, which had already been heavily drained

of
its
resources,
North and South Carolina alone remained
as
sources for supplies in any quantity.

to
To
destroy their ability
furnish food and munitions to Lee at Richmond, would
render his position untenable.
Obstacles to be Encountered.
The
movement
of the
army northward was much more

^^
difficult
and dangerous than the
March
to the Sea."
In the march southward the army moved
parallel with the rivers,

difficult for
and on highways between them,
so
it
was
any but a large force
to obstruct or retard his
move-
ment
of
south.
But
the
march north would

them
rivers.
necessitate the crossing
many
streams, some of
A single man could
burn
a bridge and prevent the
army from
crossing for a couple of
156
hours.

Gen. Josoph E. Johnston had been placed in
all
command
available
dis-
of Hood's decimated forces, to which were added
garrisons and levies.
He
appeared
in the field
prepared to
pute the northward movement of his old antagonist.
Lee was
seeking to slip awaj from Grant at Richmonri, and, with the aid
of Johnston, fall upon SherniMu and crush him.
He
was
to
march through a country that naturally furnished fewer provisions than the region through
which he had previously passed,

seat
and those were more completely exhausted, being near the

of greatest action.
And
the territory
had become of such great
importance to the very existence of the Confederate army, that

the most desperate efforts to save
it
were
to be expected.
With
ar-
a caution that admirably balanced his boldness,
Sherman
ranged
to
have the
fleet
cooperate with
him along
the coast,
keeping watch of his movements, and establishing places where

supplies could be reached,
and refuge taken
in case of necessity.
Capture of Columbia, February

of January, turning over the city of
Foster,
lY, 1865.
On the 18th
Gen. John G.
of his
Savannah
to
who was
in
command
of the coast in that vicinity. Gen.
Sherman
issued his orders on the 19th for the
movement
whole army.
The Seventeenth Corps under Gen. F. P. Blair

to Pocotaligo,
had previously been taken by water
which was
about forty miles north of Savannah, for the purpose of threat-
ening Charleston.
The
left
wing moved up along the Savannah
river, concen-
trating at Robertsville, twenty miles west of Pocotaligo.
Sher-
man was
thus pursuing his favorite strategy of dividing the
157
enemy's forces, and drawing attention from his own designs,
so as to prevent a concentration of forces to resist
him
in the
inhospitable region through which his course lay.
He
had
expected to leave Savannah with his whole
army on
the 15th of
January, at the time the Seventeenth Corps was transported to

Pocotaligo, but incessant rains and floods caused a delay of a
fortnight.
By
the
first
of February
all
preparations were com-
pleted for the final march, the left
wing threatening Augusta
and the right demonstrating against Charleston.
He
had sent
out rumors representing both places as his objective points.
Augusta, containing
apprehension of a
many Confederate
from Sherman.
had done
stores,
was
in painful
visit
Charleston, the hotbed

so
of secession, in a State that
much
to
prepare the
public
mind
of the South to rebel and secede, was fearful of
direful results.
Indeed, a feeling was entertained throughout

laid
the
North that a heavy hand should be
upon
this city,
and
nothing but the magnificent results that followed Sherman's
march deterred the radical portion of the people of the ITorth

from condemning the movements because Charleston had been
left out.
Sherman, however, chose
to
move on a
route directly
between the two places which had been threatened with some
ostentation,
and struck directly for Columbia, which he entered
February 17th.
There was almost constant skirmishing on the
road between the cavalry of the opposing forces.
Some time
to
was
lost
in rebuilding bridges
which had been destroyed
impede the progress of the army.
The march was without much

was found
to be
incident until he entered Columbia, which
on
158
fire.
THE CIVIL WAR BT CAMPAIGNS.
The main
forces of Confederates
had been concentrated

assault, so that
left to
at
Augusta and Charleston in anticipation of an
but a small force under Gen.
Wade Hampton was

Hampton had
defend
Columbia; but he
Before leaving the
cotton to be
piled
fled
on the approach of Sherman's army.

Gen.
ordered
all
city,
the
moved
into the streets
and burned.
Bales were
up everywhere and the ropes and bagging
cut.
storm
was in progress, which blew

trees,
tufts of cotton against houses, into

as
and around the town, which soon looked
though a snowfor the dethis
storm was in progress.

struction of arsenals
Sherman had given orders
and machine-shops; but before
was
done, the burning cotton, blown in every direction, had set fire to
the city.
As soon
as
Sherman entered
the city, every effort was
made
to extinguish the flames,
which continued from dusk until
3 A. M.,
and rendered homeless between 4,000 and 5,000 people.
It is reasonably certain that
Hampton burned
his
own
city,
not with malicious intent, but through the folly of filling the
streets
with burning cotton.

tons of powin deep
Sherman destroyed the arsenal purposely, and

der, shot
and
shell
were taken
to the river
and sunk
water.
He
also destroyed the factory
which made the Confedwhich were carried away
erate paper money, large quantities of
by the Union
soldiers.
The Fall of Charleston, February

of
18, 1865.
The
fall
Columbia involved the

its
fall
of Charleston, including Fort
Sumter and
defenses.
Hardee, realizing his isolated condi-
tion after the capture of Columbia, evacuated the city so
famous
Sherman's great march to the sea.

in war,
159
to
on the
18tli of
February.
He
was resolved, however,
leave as
little as
possible for the use of his adversary.
Before
the retirement of Hardee's troops, every building, warehouse
and shed stored with cotton was

that purpose.
fired
by a guard detailed for
The horrors
of the conflagration were heightened
by a terrible catastrophe.
A A
spark accidentally ignited the

a
powder in the depot of the Northwestern Railroad, where

hirge quantity
was
stored.
tremendous explosion occurred,

to the other.
shaking the city
from one end
The building was

were
in a second a whirling
mass of ruins, enveloped in a tremendous
volume of flame and smoke.

lost
About two hundred
lives
in that fiery furnace.
From
the depot the fire spread
rapidly to the adjoining buildings, and consumed a considerable

portion of the town before the flames could be subdued.
The
destruction of all public property had been as complete as Har-
dee could
make
it.
Hardee with 12,000 men made haste
to cross the
Santee and
Peedee rivers before Sherman could turn upon and crush him.
But Sherman, having other

him.
troops.
plans, did not attempt to intercept
Gen. Foster took possession of the city with the National
While
at
Columbia, Sherman learned of Johnston's restoraof the Confederate
tion to the
cummand
army
in the Carolinas.
Leaving
this place
on the 20th, Sherman's army moved toward
Fayetteville, the right
wing going through Cheraw and the
left
through Lancaster and Sneedsboro.
He
reached Fayetteville
on the 11th of March without much opposition or any special
160
incident.
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
On
the 15th he left Fayetteville for Goldsboro, at

to reinforce
which place Gen. Schofield was preparing

while Gen. Terry,
him;
who had
recently taken Fort Fisher, also
came
to his aid.
to
Sherman was compelled
move with
greater caution than he
had hitherto done, as a formidable army was being concentrated

to
oppose him.
Hardee from Charleston, Beauregard from near
Columbia, Chatham from Tennessee, Bragg with forces drawn
from the eastern defenses of North Carolina, and Wheeler^s

and Hampton's cavalry,
all
united under the able and wary
command
of Gen. J. E. Johnston,
made up
15, 1865.
a body of not less
than 40,000 men.
Fort Fisher Taken, January

the
ton.
Fort Fisher,
at
mouth of Cape
Fear river, guarded the entrance to Wilmingto the Confederates,
This port was of great importance
as
it
formed the principal
inlet,
at this time,
for blockade-
runners,
who brought such
supplies and munitions from abroad
as could not be produced by the South.
Foreign governments,
particularly England, were threatening to cease to recognize the
blockade unless the United States should
make
it
more
effective.
The
capture of this fort does not form part of Sherman's
military campaign in his " Great March," but one of the numer-
ous auxiliary movements directed by Gen. Grant in support

of the two leading campaigns,
"
The Siege
of
Richmond and
to reasons
Petersburg " and " Sherman's March."
In addition
already named, the possession of Fort Fisher would compel the
abandonment of Wilmington, open a new
h'ne of base of supplies
Sherman's great march to the sea.
161
for Sherman, and afford a place of retreat to the protection of
the
Union
fleet in
case a sufficient Confederate force could be
collected to destroy
Sherman's supremacy in his march through
the Carolinas.
The army and navy cooperated

Fisher.
in the attempt to reduce Fort
The navy was

heard in
in
command
Orleans.
of
Commodore Porter
the
military (6,500)
was commanded by Gen. B. F. Butler, of
whom we
last
it
New
He
procured an old gunit
boat, fitted
up
so as to look like a blockade-runner, loaded

it
with 250 tons of gunpowder, and, running

fort,
up
close to the
exploded
it.
Butler expected the shock to demolish the

fort,
seaward face of the
but
it
did not deface

fire
it.
The navy then
poured a rapid and well-aimed
upon the works.
division
of Butler's troops under Weitzel
was landed under cover of

garrison, and learned that
gunboats.
They captured a small
Gen. Hoke had arrived with 6,000 troops from Kichmond.

Believing the capture of the fort impossible, Weitzel so reported
to
Gen. Butler, who decided to abandon

it,
all
demonstrations
against
and accordingly withdrew his troops from the penin-
sula, greatly to the disgust of the navy.
The chagrin
Butler's action
sent the
in the
North was great over
this failure,
and
was
so unsatisfactory to
Grant that he
at once
same troops back under a
different
commander, with
1,500 reinforcements to offset those which the

ceived.
enemy had
re-
Gen. A. H. Terry was selected to
command
the second
attempt.
The works were very
extensive,
and the enemy made

forces
a desperate effort to defend them.
The land and naval
11
162

a combined attack.
made
Terry's
men pushed from
traverse to
traverse until the works were finally taken, Jan. 15th, including
169 guns, 2,083 prisoners, with ammunition and small arms.

SuRREiSTDER OF
Schofield
WiLMINGTON, FEBRUARY
22,
1865.
to
Gcu. go to
to
was
at Clifton,
on the Tennessee, preparing

received the order
to take
Eastport, Miss.,
the East.
when he
Sherman
summoning him
He
was directed
Wilmington, and then coop-
erate with Gen.
in his
campaign against the Confed-
erate forces being assembled under Gen. Johnston.
He
found
fort,
Gen. Terry with 8,000
men
about two miles above the
but too weak to advance against the Confederates,

strongly intrenched at Fort Anderson.
who were
Schofield brought about
12,000 men, and at once commenced active operation against

the enemy,
who
wêre defeated in several engagements.
Wil-
mington was taken on the 22d of February.

forces,
The Confederate
commanded by Bragg and Hoke, withdrew to unite with Johnston's army, while Schofield and Terry moved to Goldsboro
to reinforce
Sherman.
Sherman's Final Campaign, 1865.

five
At Averysboro,
thirty-
miles south of Raleigh, the left wing of Sherman's
army
suddenly came upon Hardee's forces, intrenched across his path.
They were however driven

toward Goldsboro.
assailed
back,
and the march continued

19th,
At Benton ville, March
Slocum was
by the entire
Confederate army under Johnston, who
expected to crush the left wing before the remaining forces

could come to their aid.
Slocum withstood
six assaults
from
SHERMAN
GREAT MARCH TO THE

it
SE^.
163
artillery.
Johnston's army, inflicting heavy loss upon
with his
Night
fell
without giving Johnston any ground.
During
the
night reinforcements arrived, and both armies fortified themselves for the
morrow.
Gen. Slocum awaited the arrival of
Gen.
Howard
with the entire right of Sherman's army, while
Gen. Schofield was improving this delay to get possession of

Goldsboro in the enemy's rear, and Gen. 'JVrry was advancing
to the
Neuse, at Cox's bridge, some ten miles higher up.

tlie
But
Johnston had taken

so precipitately
alarm, and during the night retreated

to leave his pickets behind,
last battle
coward Raleigh as
as well as his severely
wounded.
This was the
fought
by the army confronting Sherman's.

1,600 killed, wounded, and missing.
The Union
loss
was about
loss
The Confederate
was
about 2,300.
No
to
further resistance being made, vSherman's

it
army moved on
Goldsboro, where
rested
and was re-clad; while Sherman,
after a brief visit with Gens. Scofield and Terry,

trip
to
made
a hasty
City Point (March 27th), where he met in council

etc.,
President Lincoln, Generals Grant, Meade,

to
and returned
Goldsboro on the 30th.
Johnston's Surrender, April

was quiescent
of
at Goldsboro, he
26, 1865.
While
Sherman
fall
was
electrified to
hear of the
Richmond and Petersburg.

still
He
immediately began a move-
ment against Johnston, who
lay at Smithfield, but
who now
retreated to Raleigh, thence to Greensboro.
Sherman pursued
the Confederates to Raleigh.
The opposing armies were
in these places
one
at
Greens-
164
boro, the other at Raleigh
when
the news of Lee's surrender
reached them.
The
decline of the Confederate cause brought
overtures of peace from Johnston, which led to his surrender,
April 26th, 1865, on the same terms as had been granted to Lee.
The surrender of
last
all
the Confederate armies soon followed, the
being the
command
of Gen. E. Kirby Smith, at Shreveport,
La.,
on the 26th of May.
Under Johnston's command, 36,817

and Morida.
14th day of April,
men were
paroled, and 52,453 in Georgia
Anniversary of Fort Sumter.

Major Anderson
large
The
It
1865, was the anniversary of the surrender of Fort Sumter by

to
Gen. Beauregard.
was celebrated by a
to Charleston
number
of loyal citizens,
who went down
and
Port Royal
to witness the raising, over the ruins of the historic
fortress, of the identical flag that
had been hauled down four

opened
fire
years before
ter.
when Beauregard
first
upon Fort Sum-
The
flag
had been thoughtfully preserved for the purpose.

delivered the principal address on this ocloyal rejoicing
Henry Ward Beecher

casion.
The whole country was aglow with
and
congratulations over the surrender of Lee, which occurred April

9th,
and the establishment of

fired the first
[N'ational authority over the site
which
gun
of the Rebellion.
CHAPTER
XII.
McCLEIjIÂN'S PENINSUX.AR CAMPAIGN.

Organization of the Army, 1861.
battle of Bull
Immediately
after the
Run, the new military department of Washington
and Northeastern Virginia was formed.
The army became

to take com-
known
as the
Army
of the Potomac.
Gen. George B. McClellan
was summoned by telegraph from West Virginia
mand
of
it.
The change was
officially
announced July 25, 1861.

desertions, defeat,
to
The army around Washington was reduced by
and by the expiration of the time of the three-months men,

about 50,000 men.
General-in-chief until
Gen. Winfield Scott nominally remained
November
list,
1st,
when, by his own request,

to
he was placed on the retired

supersede him.
and McClellan was named
Gen. McClellan at once commenced
the organi-
zation of the great
army authorized by Congress.
Regiment
after regiment flocked into Washington.
The troops were armed

beginning of Decemof the
and
drilled,
with a full knowledge of the perils and hardships

to be encountered.
and privations
ber,
when Congress
assembled,
By the the Army
Potomac had
reached 185,000 men.
Different Routes Toward Richmond.

1862,
In
the spring of
when
the
Army
of the
Potomac was
to be
put in motion
for the capture of Richmond, Lincoln and McClellan did not
agree as to what route should bo taken.

(165)
There were several
166
different
ways by which the Union army could be furnished

One,
with food and supplies while moving against Richmond.
by railroad through Gordonville: this was the longest route, and

most
difficult to
guard.
The
supplies could be taken
down
the
Potomac
to
Aquia Creek via Fredericksburg, then by
rail to
Richmond.
This route possessed the advantage of placing the

in a
Union army
position
to
defend the National capital.
Another route was that down the Chesapeake bay, ascending

either the
York
or the
James
river,
and establishing a base on

This plan necessi-
one or the other at some convenient point.

tated a division of the
army
upon
in order to protect
it.
Washington
the
against a sudden attack
The President wished

enemy
overland.
army
to
move
directly against the
McClellan
wished to
move dowm
the bay on transports.
Lincoln finally
yielded to McClellan's plan, on condition that a sufficient force
should be left for the protection of Washington.
Down the
Army
taken
River to Yorktown, April, 1862.
The
great
of the Potomac,
numbering 155,000, in command of
Gen. McClellan, embarked at Alexandria in April, and was
down
the
Potomac
in transi)orts to Fortress Monroe.
The ultimate
objects were, the destruction of the Confederate^
arm}^ and the capture of Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy.
erected
numerous breastworks extend-
ing across the peninsula which separates the

rivers,
York
J. B.
and.
James
defended by 20,000
men
at
under Gen.
Magruder.
cele-
The main body was centered
Yorktown, a place already
THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAO.

brated in the annals of history by the decisive victory of
167
Wash-
ington over Cornwallis.

of extensive fortifications.
Yorktown was defended by
a system
McClellan, after some preliminary
skirmishing, began erecting a system of opposing works.
Re-
inforcements
arrived
to
swell
the
number
to
of
Confederate
Generals
t<>
troops already assembled at
Yorktown
60,000.
Johnston and Lee arrived.
Every preparation was made
defend the place to the utmost extremity.
McClellan in the
its assault.
meantime was making coextensive preparations for
He
ordered big guns to be brought from Washington, and per-
fected his plans for a protracted siege
upon the
place.
When
everything Avas in readiness, after a delay of a month, to the

great surprise of McClellan and the ISTation the Confederates
abandoned Yorktown and retreated toward Richmond.
The evacuation
the war.
It
to
of
Yorktown
is
one of the singular events of
was evidently the original intention of the Southmeet the Federals in

battle at this fortified town.
ern
army
It is probable that the
most potent factor in inducing the Con-
federates to change their plans

the Federals at a safe distance
was that they might encounter
from the Federal gunboats on
the
York
river.
The painful
lesson taught
them
at Pittsburg
Landing had not yet been forgotten.
The Battle of Williamsburg, May

erals
5,
1862.
-The
Fed-
began a vigorous pursuit, without stopping in the deserted
camp.
On
the afternoon of
May
4th the Federal advance en-
countered the Confederate rear guard near Williamsburg.

next day the engagement took place
all
The
The
along the
lines.
168
contest
brilliant
THE CIVIL
continued
WAR BY
the
CAMPAIGNS.
during
day.
Gen. Hancock began a

left.
and
S2)irited
attack
upon the enemy's

they
field.
Their
resistance gradually Aveakened, until finally

retreated, leaving nearly
broke
and
700 dead upon the

killed
The
loss to
the
Union
forces
was 300
and over 800 wounded.
In the afternoon of the Gth of May, 20,000 men commanded

by Gen. William B. Franklin arrived in transports
Point, on the
at
West
York
river, for the
purpose of uniting with Gen.

a division of
McClellan.
They were attacked next morning by
the Confederate forces,
who were
repulsed. After the conclusion
of this engagement Franklin speedily united his forces with
Gen. IMcClellan's, and the
Army
of the
Potomac continued
its
advance upon Richmond.
As McClellan approached Richmond,

little
several skirmishes of
consequence took place along the banks of the ChickaIt appeared as though
hominy.
an immediate attack Avould be

in
made upon Richmond.
Great panic prevailed

hastily adjourned.
the
city.
The Confederate Congress
But
at this junc-
ture McClellan discovered a large body of Confederates at
Hanover Court House, who threatened

rail
his
communication by
with White House Landing, and intercepted the approach
of Gen. Irvin McDowell,

to join McClellan.
who was
to
come with 40,000 troops
It also
maintained communication between
the Confederate authorities at
Richmond and Fredericksburg.

Gen. Fitz John
McClellan discerned the necessity of driving the Confederates
from
this place.
The
task
was intrusted
to
Porter.
After a spirited assault the Confederates were driven
THE ARMT OF THE POTOMAC.

from the
Federals,
fiolrl,
169
and Hanover Court House was taken by tho
with a loss of 53 killed and 326 wounded.
The
enemy's
loss
was somewhat
greater.
The
chief military strength of the Confederacy was concen-
trated in the vicinity of
Richmond;
Their ablest generals were

colos-
summoned
sal
to
command.
Preparations for a conflict more
than any that had hitherto taken place were made.

to cooperate
Gen.
McDowell was
with McClellan against Richmond, Gen. Na-
by marcliing due south by way of Fredericksburg.

thaniel P.
Banks was
to proceed to Winchester, through the
Shenandoah Valley, by Strasburg, toward Staunton.
Stonewall Jackson's Campaign

1862.
in
the Shenandoah,
night were that
Gen.
McClellan was anxiously awaiting the arrival of
McDowell's 40,000 troops.
His
last orders at
McDowell's signals should be reported to him without delay.
The wisdom
of Gen. Johnston foresaw disaster for
him
it
in the
probable union of these Federal forces.

his object.
to
To prevent
became
Gen. T. J. ("Stonewall") Jackson was directed
move
against the
Union
forces in the
Shenandoah Valley,
threaten Washington, and thus prevent
McDowell from joining
McClellan in his campaign against Richmond.
A
them
portion of Banks's
army under Gen.

at Winchester,
Shields had encoun-
tered Jackson's
to flight.
command
March
Here
23,
and put
Banks pursued the retreating
forces with steady
and unvarying success as far as Strasburg.

verse overtook him.
original
a sudden re-
His army had been reduced one-half of the

it
number by demands made upon
for troops for other
170
fields.

Gen. Jackson had been reinforced by Ewell's division,
which reached him
May
1st.
Discerning the advantage he thus
had, he descended like an avalanche with his 15,000
men upon
the val-
Banks, driving liim down the valley.

captured a garrison of 700 men.
ley after Banks,
At Front Royal, Jackson

tlion Inirriod
He
down
to within a few miles of Harper's Ferry. Banks
succeeded in making his escape across the Potomac.
Tn
this
memorable
retreat of fifty-three miles in forty-eight hours, sev-
eral conflicts took place, the

chester,
most spirited of which
Avas at
Win-
where for
five
hours the Union army, numbering 5,000,
withstood the attack of threefold their number.

sternation
General concalled
prevailed
at
Washington.
The President
to
upon the governors of the ISTorthern States

the defense of the National capital.
send militia for
He
took military possession

to
of the railroads.
McDoweirs advance from Fredericksburg
unite with IMcdellan was at once countermanded.
He was
ordered up the Shenandoah Valley with 20,000 men, in face of

protests
from himself and McClellan.

at
Banks
at
to
Harper's Ferry
and Fremont
son,
Franklin were also directed
move on Jack-
who by
this
time had become alarmed for his own safety,

retreat,
and commenced a precipitous
burning bridges behind
him
as he went.
Several engagements took place between the
retreating forces of Jackson and his pursuers under
Fremont
suc-
and Shields.
By
a skillful
and masterly retreat Jackson
ceeded in reaching Richmond.
While there was no great
battle
fought in the campaign,
it
bore an important part in the Mcfor by
Clellan peninsular campaign,
means of 15,000 men
THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.

Jackson succeeded
in neutralizing a force of 60,000,
171 and pre-
\ented heavy reinforcements from joining McClellan when they
were most needed.
Fair Oaks,
May
31,
and Seven Pines, Tune

\vere
1,
1862.
While these stirring events
going on in the Shenandoah
Valley, Gen. ]\lcClellan sent a corps comprising two divisions

of about 20,000 to the south side of the Chickahominy, at a
place called Fair Oaks, located about eight miles east of Rich-
mond.
troops
General Johnston planned

"^vith
to attack
and defeat these
a superiority of numbers, before reinforcements
could be brought to them.
Heavy
rains converted the Chicka-
hominy creek
into a raging current, flooded the
swamps, made
the roads impassable, so that a relief expedition
was well-nigh
impossible.
The Confederates suddenly and unexpectedly made an impetuous charge upon the Federal ranks on Saturday morning,
May
31.
The regiment
sent to support the pickets were comvast
pletely demoralized,
and carried exaggerated reports of the
numbers of
their assailants.
The advancing
forces were imat
peded in their progress by a determined stand of Federals
a rail fence; but as the ranks of the Confederates became deci-
mated, new troops from the rear came forward.

a half hours the 8,000 troops
their
For three and
under Gen. Casey held three times
number
in check, inflicting terrible destruction
upon them.
The Federal
conflict
troops fought heroically, but after a desperate
were forced back toward the Chickahominy.
Late
in
the afternoon the arrival of Sumner's troops aided in
stemming
172
the victorious
forces
march of the enemy, and
in saving the Federal
from
total rout.
The
close of the
day found the Confed-
erates in possession of the Federal camp.
During the night imspirit of the
portant
forces
reinforcements
arrived.
The
Federal
was
raised, as their ranks filled up.
The next morning
(Sunday, June 1st) the Confederate advance was met by a

vigorous and resolute stand by the Federals.
The Federals
pushed forward upon the yielding
lines of the foe, until they
occupied a position a mile in advance of that held at the begin-
ning of the day's engagement.

defeat of the
first
Thus the misfortunes
of the
day's battle of Fair
Oaks was retrieved by the
victory on the second at Seven Pines.

tion captured
The guns and ammuniRichmond
by the Confederates the day before were not
recovered, as they
the first day.
had been taken

loss
into
at the close of
The Federal
during the two-days battle was
890
killed,
3,627 wounded, and 1,222 missing.
The
official
report of Gen. J. E. Johnston gives his total
number
in killed
and wounded and missing
as 6,697.
The people
in the
North expected that an immediate advance

battle
would be made upon Richmond by McClellan after the

of Seven Pines.
suit
It is quite probable
that if
an immediate pur-
had been ordered and an advance made upon Richmond, would have been disastrous
such a movement
is
the result
to the
enemy.
But
the
difficulty of
apparent.
Only a small portion
of McClellan's
army had
crossed the Chickahominy.
freshet
the day after the battle of Fair
Oaks swept away the two or

Rich-
three bridges that had been constructed over the stream.
173
mond was
protected by eight fortifications and defended by
more than 50,000 men.
Operations intended to overcome such
formidable defenses, when combined with heroic conduct, had

to be
conducted on a
phm
wliose
magnitude was greater than
the obstacles to be overcome.
In accordance with maxims controlling Gen. McClellan, he

proceeded to select his camp and erect fortifications, intrenching from Mechanicsville on his right to White
his left,
Oak Swamp on
army were
in
embracing a front of about four miles, mostly parallel

Portions of the immense
with the Confederates.
view of the spires of Richmond.

lay before them.
The heart
of the Rebellion
In the battle of Fair Oaks Gen. J. E. Johnston, the Confederate General-in-chief,
was severely wounded, and Robert E.

spirits of the Rebellion to lead
Lee was called by the master

their hosts to battle.
Concentration
Clellan was
of
Confederate
Eorces.
While
Mc-
making extensive preparations
for the siege of
Richmond, Gen. Lee was exerting every energy for a massive

concentration of a formidable army.
large portion of the
troops so mysteriously withdrawn at Corinth by Beauregard, ap-
peared before Richmond.
Gen. Jackson's force was summoned

in
from the Shenandoah.

the vicinity of
About 100,000 men were assembled

to aid in its defense.
Richmond
Gen.
J.
E. B. Stuart
made
gained
a circuitous cavalry raid around
the Federal army.
He
much
valuable information, cap-
174
tured
many
prisoners,
and destroyed about $7,000,000
wortli
of supplies, returning in safety to the Confederate fold.
The sudden apparition
of Jackson's forces, the dangerou;^
condition of the Federal base of supplies at

the failure of ^FcDowell to
White House, and

McClellan, in
come
to the aid of
duced him
to recede from Richmond, and change his base from

to
White Tlouse on the York river

James.
Harrison's Landing on the
McClet.i.ax's Ketreat and Seven Days' Battle,

ro
June 2G
July
2,
18G2.
Orders were
received on the 24th of
Jum
for the
movement
of the troops toward Harrison's Landing'.
This affoi'ded an o])portunity for the

.lefensive to the offensive policy, in
enemy
to
change from the
which was inaugurated that
remarkable series of engagements lasting a whole week with

such destructive fury, and
known
in
history as the
^^
Seven
Days' Battle."
Battle of MprJianirsville,
June 26, 1S6!2.On
the 26th of
June the Confederate
forces issued in
vast numbers from the

a bold assault
camps before Richmond, and commenced

the
upon
Union army.
The
attack
was directed against General
Stoneman's cavalry
in the vicinity of
Hanover Court House,

Me-
and soon extended

chanicsville.
to the troops posted in the vicinity of
Reinforcements were brought several times durLate in the day a furious cavalry
ing the day by both sides.
charge was met by Federal horse, and driven back. continued

till
The
conflict
half-past nine o'clock, with little advantage to
either party, but the field of battle
remained in possession of
THE ARMY Of THE POTOMAO.

the
175
Union
forces.
Gen. Fitz John Porter was in
command
of
the entire corps of
Union troops engaged dnring the day.

ÂreCall,
He
was ably assisted by Generals
Morrell, and Griffin.

nothing,
a begin-
Thns
at the close of the first day, the
enemy had gained
but were not disheartened.
They had merely made
ning of the gigantic enterprise which they had undertaken, and
were resolute
strated.
in the prosecutiun, as the
days following demon-
Battle of Gainps's Mill,
June
27.
During
the night Gen.
McClellan gave orders
to
Gen. Porter for the removal of the
camp
equipage, stores and ammunition to the
James
river.
The
troops were also ordered to
move forward.
While these move-
ments were progressing, the Confederates were receiving reinforcements, and preparing for another assault.
The
early
dawn
next day, June 27, beheld 60,000 Confederate troops ready fur
battle.
Gen. Porter had received orders
to
remove
his troops
this
two miles beyond Gaines's Mill.
The enemy supposing

Here
movement
erals,
a retreat
from
battle,
followed and overtook the Fedresulted the
who were prepared
to receive them.
bloody battle of Gaines's Mill, June 27th.
The
battle
began
at
eleven o'clock, and raged during the rest of the day with the
usual vicissitudes which characterize engagements in which vast
numbers of brave men contend

grees of valor and fortitude.
for the mastery, with equal de-
The enemy had repeatedly

into the low,
at-
tempted to force the
Union men
marshy ground
in doing
between the mill and bridge.

it.
They almost succeeded

the
With desperate energy
Federal
troops,
numbering
176
27,000, succeeded in holding their ground and in defending the
bridge across the Chickahominy

sides
till
night.
The
losses
on both
were heavy
Lee's
was 7,700, and McClellan's was 7,000.
The shades
of niglit settled over the field of carnage and deatli,

to the desperate conflict
and put an end
on the north side of
the Chickahominy.
Battle of Savage's Station,
June
29.
During the night most

removed
to the
all
of the Federal troops and baggage trains were
south side of the Chickahominy, and thus they gained some ad-
vantage over the pursuing enemy.
After
the troops had
crossed the stream, bridges were destroyed to prevent pursuit.
The Union army withdrew

gagement took place on
tities
as far as Savage's Station.
No
en-
this day, but
during the night vast quan-
of commissary stores, ammunition and hospital supplies
for which there were no
means of removal
at hand,
were
de-
stroyed by orders of Gen. McClellan.
Four
car-loads of
its
am-
munition were run into the Chickahominy to prevent

into the
falling
hands of the enemy.
The
hospital at Savage's Station,
containing 2,500 sick and wounded, with surgeons and attendants,
had
to be
abandoned.
These
men
fell into
the hands of the
enemy, but were treated with humanity.
On the morning of the

An engagement
flict
29th, the troops continued their march.
took place at Peach Orchard.
The main
It
con-
for the day occurred at Savage's Station.
commenced
at 5 p. M.
and lasted until 9 o'clock at night.
At midnight Mc-
Clellan gave orders to fall back rapidly from Savage's Station to
White Oak Swamp,
as the Confederates were endeavoring to in-
THE ARMY OF THE POTOAIAC

tercept their retrogade
177
the hitherto volflight,
movement.
And now
untary march of the Federals degenerated into a
pursued
by the enemy.
Battle of Glendale or Fraziers
Farm, June 30, At Wliite
Oak Swamp
federates).
another desperate engagement took place,
known
as
Glendale, White
Oak Swamp
(or Frazier's
Farm,
by the Con-
McClellan directed the lines to be held until the
trains could reach a place of safety on the James,
where the
after
army could be concentrated

fatiguing battles
to
enjoy
brief
rest
the
and marches through which they were passing
after which, he expected to
renew the advance on Kichmond.

p.
The
last of the trains
reached Malvern Hill by 4

to hold their
m.
It then
remained for the troops
ground
till
night,
when
they could march to the stronger position on Malvern Hill.
The
fighting began between 12
and
1 o'clock
(June 30), was
very severe, and extended along the whole

erate artillery inflicted serious loss
line.
The Confed-
upon Franklin's command,

to cross Whit(^
but he held his ground
till
night.
Their attempts
Oak Swamp Crossing were

enemy's attack
at the
unsuccessful.
Slocum
witlistood the
Charles City road.
McCall's division was

the left and Sedgwick
field.
forced back, but
Hooker came up from
from the
rear,
and together drove the foe from the
In-
effectual assaults
were made upon Kearny, Porter, Sumner and

firing continued until after dark.
Heintzelman.
The
During
the night all the remaining corps of the
Union array were with-
drawn
to
Malvern
Hill.
12
178

1.
Battle of Malvern Hill, July
The
river,
morning of July
like
found the Union army posted on Malvern Hill, rising

amphitheater and overlooking
with transports and vessels of
tlie
an
which was crowded
all descriptions.
The
hill
was
arranged with
plateau above.
Porter,
tier after tier of
Federal batteries, rising to the
Generals Keyes, Slocum, Franklin, Sumner,

there with their broken
Kearny and Heintzelman were

tlie
corps of
once splendid
Army
of the Potomac.
The enemy
was commanded by Generals Lee,
Hill, Longstreet, !Afagruder,

at four o'clock,
and Jackson. They opened a spirited engagement

Tuesday, July
at night.
hill 1st.
The
fight
was continued
until ten o'clock
Three times the determined foe
tried to capture the
and drive the Federals down, but each time they were driven
fire
back with frightful carnage by the combined
of artillery
and musketry.
Thus ended
Days' Battle.
the battle of
Malvern
Hill, the last of the
Seven
Thus ended the
last assault
by the Confederates
upon the troops of the Union
in the " Peninsular
Campaign."
Thus terminated one
of the most extraordinary camiâigns which
has ever occurred in the blood-stained annals of ancient or mod-
ern warfare.
'We
loss
on both sides was appalling.
During
;
the seven days' 0])eration, the

Clellan's loss
enemy
lost over
20,000 men
Mc-
was abont 1G,000.

to
McClellan moved his troops
Harrison Tândlng, a strip of

five
land along the north bank of the James river,
miles long,
with several good wharves for the discharge of cargoes, situated

eight miles
from Malvern
Hill.
Being naturally well adapted

for defense, the vigorous use of the spade soon
179
made
it
impregterrible
nable against
all attacks.
The enemy had
inflicted
punisliment upon the Union forces, but had themselves received

such calamitous reception that they withdrew from the
conflict.
In
It
effect,
the Peninsular
Campaign was
a complete failure.
had not only failed in the capture of Richmond, but Mc-
Clellan was compelled to change his base of operations, was
forced to take the defensive, and retreat, in the series of battles.
Frnmense quantities of stores had been captured or destroyed

by the Confederates, and the Union army was cooped up on
Harrison Landing.
Richmond being
relieved
from immediate
peril of attack,
Lee
headed his army toward the North, to crush the Federals under
Pope and threaten Washington.
OTTAPTEK
XTTT.
POPE'S CAMPAIGN.
'
The Organization of the Army of

reverses around
Virginia.
The
to
recent
Richmond induced
the President to put forth
more strenuous
efforts to strengthen the
Union, and
resume
an offensive campaign against the Confederates.

a levy of 300,000 troops,
He
called for
and preparations were immediately
made hy
the various States to comply with the requisition.
Gen. Henry
W. Halleck was summoned
to
Washington, and
invited to assume the duties and discharge the functions of General-in-chief of

tlie
land forces of the United States.
The order
until
was dated July 11, 1802, but he did not take command
the 23d.
ized,
new army,
tlie
called the
Army
of Virginia,
was organ-
comprising
tliree
corps of Fremont, Banks, and Mc-
Dowell.
The
troo])S
under Generals Sumner, Burnside and

latter part of
Porter were sent in
tlie
August
to reinforce this
newly organized army.

his
Gen. Jolm Pope was summoned from

1802, to assume the chief
Western
successes, elune 2Gtli,
command
Pope
of the
new department.
Fremont, regarding Gen.
as his junior, accordingly tendered his resignation,

to his corps.
which
was accepted, and Gen. Sigel was assigned
The
duty
Army
was
of Virginia
now nundjcred more than

threaten
40,000.
Its
to cover
Washington, defend Maryland and the lower Shento
andoah Valley, and hnally
Pichmond from
the
(180)

nortli,
181
and there unite in
tlie oi')eratioiis
of ^McClellan against
tliat o]\y.
The
failnre of McOlellan before
Richmond and
Lee's
snbse(|ncnt invasion of the

designs.
North compelled, a revision of these
Cedar Mountain, August

to cross the
9,
1862.
Gen. Pope was ordered

From
Kappahannuck and threaten Gordonsville.
the base of the Blue Kidge mountains he expected to be able to
defend the approaches to Washington, to flank the columns which
might be sent
to the
Shenandoah Vallej, while he was preparing

Gen. Lee
or-
for an aggressive
movement toward Richmond.
dered Jackson with his veteran troops and Ewell with his division to Gordonsville to oppose Gen. Pope's advance. division soon folloAved,
A. P. Hill's
increasing the Confederate forces to

of
25,000
men
in the vicinity
to
Gordonsville.
Pope's
forces
had already advanced
Cnlpeper Court House.
On
the 9th of
August a Union division met the Confederates near

Mountain.
Cedar
furious engagement occurred.
The enemy was
strongly posted, and was assailed by a force less than one-half

of
its
own.

and in the
result.
the advantage in position,

a concentration
in numbers,
Pope then began
of his forces, and expected the next day to operate

son's base,
upon Jack-
and compel him
to fight
on equal terms.
During
and
the
re-
night, however, Jackson
withdrew from
losses
his position,
crossed the Rapidan.
The Union
were
about
2,400
against 1,300 for the enemy.

suit of the fugitives,
it
While Pope's cavalry was in pur-
was discovered that Lee's whole army

and near
at hand.
was moving
in that direction,
The pursuit
182

to
was discontinued, and a retreat

menced.
the
Rappahannock com-
Lee began
lieved that
his nortliward
movement August
13th, as he be-
Richmond was
in no great danger,
and that by
re-
threatening Washington the

called
Army
of the
Potomac would be
from the capital
city of the Confederacy.

to transfer his
]\fcClellan
was ordered
army
to
Acqnia creek
and Alexandria, and both the

of the
Army
of Virginia and the
Army
McLee
Potomac were placed under
the
command
of Pope.
Clellan evacuated the peninsula on the iTtli of August.
was determined
to strike the
army under Pope before
it
should
be reinforced by McClellan's hosts.
Gen. Pope, who had ex-
pected to renew the battle against Jackson in the vicinity of

(^êdar
Mountain, now realized that his only hope of success lay
in fighting a series of retreating battles against
Lee until the
arrival of the
x\rmy of the Potomac.
He
took position to the
rear of the
ceive aid
Rappahannock, August
to
17, to be better able to re-
and
oppose the invading army.
All efforts of Gen.

erate forces
Pope and
his
army
to prevent the at
Confed-
from crossing the Rappahannock

avail.
Waterloo bridge
of the resist-
and elsewhere were of no
The main purpose
ance by the Union troops at the stream was to gain time and
enable Gen. McClellan to reach the scene of action with the
Army
of the Potomac.
During the night of the 21st the Confederates threw pontoon

bridges over the stream, and crossed in great numbers.
The
following day the batteries of both armies along the river con-

tinner! to exoliango shots.
iiiipui'tanee,
183
Tlicso skirmishes, of p;reater or less

to the
were preliminary
more
decisive engagements
soon to take place. While they progressed,

bridges burned,
many were
slain,
much property
destroyed, and desolation spread
over the face of the country.
Second Battle of Bull Run, Aug.

the Potomac,
21)
and
30, 1862.
of
mysterious delay characterized the movements of the
Army
to
and Gen. Pope was ultimately compelled
meet
the whole military strength of the Confederacy in Virginia,
without the aid of the main Union army.
The operations
complicated.
of the Confederate generals were skillful and
While Lee was engaging the attention of Pope,
Gen. Jackson was reaching for a position in his rear.
When
Pope discovered
the intention of the Confederate generals, he
hastened toward Manassas Junction, and directed McDowell
and Sigel
to
proceed with their troops to Gainesville, and Ileintzto proceed to
elman and Peno
Greenwich.
to flank
Gen. Lee sent Jackson toward Pope's right wing

him.
Passing through 'J'hornughfare Gap, he occupied a posiGen. Pope, seeing the isolated
tion to the rear of Pope's army.
position of Jackson's army, determined to " bag " and capture
him.
But
the
Army
of the
Potomac not promptly reinforcing

took place in which the
possession of Manassas,
him, his plans failed.
An engagement
Pope took
Federals had the advantage.
and effected a consolidation of

ber,
his troops, about 60,000 in
numde-
Thursday night, August
28.
It
was thought that the
cisive battle of the
war was about
to be fought.
This great bat-
184
tie
THE CIVIL WAR BY CAMPAIGNS. was

roniinoiK'((l at
dayliij^-lit
on Friday, August 20th, 1862.
The Confederate
forces
numbered not far from 100,000 men.

to the Federals.
Tlie first day's battle
was favorable
During
the
engagement an opportunity
were seeking
Avas afforded to
surround Jack-
son's forces, Avho

ter,
to
break through the Union cen-
and
to forui a junction
with Lee.
Gen. Pope had planned
to crush or capture Jackson's division, but Gen. Porter failed
to execute the orders sent to
him, and the plan failed.
The second day was
disastrous to the
Union army.
The
over-
whelming host of the enemy bore down upon the

with irresistible power.
a retreat to Centerville.
Union troops
When
ni_;ht
came Gen. Pope ordered

executed.
ar-
The order was promptly

of the Potomac.
At Centerville reinforcements under Franklin and Sumner

rived
from McClellan's
day
Army
Had
these been
sent a
earlier, the result of the conflict
might have been

his victory
different.
It
was expected that Lee would follow up

forces next day.
by an attack of the Union

suffered by both,
fortli,
But
the heavy losses
and the great exertion which both had put and repose necessary.
made
a sliort interval of delay
The
Federal army bivouacked at Centerville, awaiting further move-
ments of the enemy.
On
the first of September the Confederates were massing
forces for the purpose of attacking the Federal wagon-trains.
Gen. Pope sent a division of troops to attack them.

conflict took place
terville.
fierce
near Chantilly, three miles distant from Cenrepulsed, after which the Federal
The enemy was
troops returned to camp.
185
The
in'r^ht
rotroat of
tlio
whole Federal army was resumed on the
of September 1st, toward Wasliiiigton, and on the 3d the
i;rand armies of Virginia
and the Potomac had arrived
in their
old quarters, protected by thirty forts, which sheltered the Federal capital.
Thns ended
the
campaign of Gen. Pope
in Virginia,
one of
the most disastrons to the Federal canse that

place.
loss
had yet taken
The Union
loss
was about 14,000 and the Confederate
about 9,000.
battle of Chantilly cost the
The
Union army two
able officers
Generals
enemy.
Philip
Kearny and Isaac
Ingalls Stevens.
The
former was devotedly loved by his
soldiers,
and feared by the
He
On
was
a stranger to fear,
and in every engagement he

fiercest
was seen moving majestically in the

combat.
and thickest of the
the battle-field, taking his SAvord in his only hand,
the reins in his teeth, he
had often
led his troops in the most
desperate and irresistible charges.
In
this
engagement he rode
gap that
threat-
forward, unattended by any of his
staff,
into a
fell
ened the safety of the Federal

into the
lines,
and
mortally wounded,
a flag of truce
hands of the enemy.

lines,
The next morning

bearing with
it
was sent into the Union

deceased hero.
the remains of the
He
had served with distinction in the Mexican War, fought
as a volunteer in the
French army in Algeria and the Crimea,
and led the patriotic troops of 'New Jersey in the memorable

" Peninsular
Campaign."
The
failure of Gen.
Pope
to successfully
check the advance of
186
the ronfodoratr
witliout the
army north
is
due
to tlie fact that his

less
numbers,
Army
of the Potomac, were much
than those of
Lee,
to
and the nnion of the two armies was not perfected in time
meet the advance of Lee's army.
Pope was completely
out-
generaled by the saiacity of Lee
and the splendid marching
capacity of Jackson; bnt he was brave, and loyal, and wlien he

fouglit
it
was with a will beyond his discretion.
He
failed to
divine the movements of his foe, and in consequence was not

able to fight to the best purpose.
Pope
to
attributed his defeat to the failure of Fitz
John Porter
obey his orders to attack Longstreet on August 29th.

After the return of the troops to the works around Washing-
ton,
Gen. Pope tendered his resignation of the

of Virginia
command
of the
Army
to
and the
Army
of the Potomac, and requested
be transferred to some other post of duty.
He
was imme-
diately appointed to the
command
of the department of the
Northwest, in which lay the territory of the revolted Indian

tribes.
Before leaving Washington, Gen.

against several
officers,
Pope preferred charges

Gen. Porter, for
dis-
chief of
whom was
obeying orders.
The charges were
investigated at a later period

It
by a court-martial convened in Washington.
was proven
in
the trial that Porter entertained a personal hostilit}^ to Pope,
and had sent telegrams ridiculing the order and management,

rjen.
Porter was found guilty of the charges preferred against
him.
The finding was approved by
the President, Jan. 21,

1803.
187
Porter was cashiered, and dismissed from service, and
" forever disqualified
from holding any
office
of profit or trust
under the Government of the United States."

of officers retried him, and an entirely
In 1878 a board
light
'^
new
act
was thrown
npon the
case.
It
was shown that Porter's
saved the Union
Army from
States
disaster on the 29th of Angnst."
By
an act of Conto the
gress, Porter once again received a
commission
United
Army, and
in
1886 he was placed on the retired
list.
Lee's Invasion of Maryland, September, 1862.
The
re-
markable successes which the Confederates had achieved

Virginia inspired them with confidence, and
aggressive.
in
made them more
Lee, accordingly, began the invasion of Maryland.
He
passed through Leesburg, crossing the Potomac about forty
miles above Washington.
On
the 6th the advance
army compossession
manded by Gen. Jackson reached Frederick, and took

of that town.
Such Federal property
as fell into their
hands
they retained or destroyed.

to
The property
of individuals
was not
be molested, in accordance with a proclamation issued by
Gen. Jackson when he entered the State.
Lee imagined a strong disunion sentiment was slumbering

the breasts of the people of Maryland,
his
in
and that the presence of and open resistance

to
in-
army
in their midst
would
start active
to the
Government.
In his proclamation Lee endeavored
convince the people of that State that they had suffered
numerable wrongs
at the
hands of the National Government,

his
and tendered his services and those of
army
to assist in
188
rocovorini]:
tlioir

*'
inalienable riglits "

little
as
freemen.
"But the
Confederate army received
sympathy and cooperation
from
the citizens of
Maryland.
The army marched through
^riddletown, Boonsboro, Williamsport, and reached Hagerstown
September
9th.
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CHAPTEE
XIV.
FROM ANTIETAM TO FRKDERICKSBURG.

South Mountain, Sept.
instated to
tlie
14, 18G2.
Gen. McClellan was

of the
re-
command
of the
Army
Potomac
after the
resignation of Gen. Pope.
Leaving troops for the defense of
Washington, he put his army in motion in pursuit of Lee.

loyalty of the people of
lan's
The
Maryland and the approach

to
of McClel-
army induced Lee
move south with
the intention of cross-
ing the Potomac at Williamsport and Harper's Perry. Gen. McClellan placed his
for
army
in such a position that
it
was impossible
Lee
to retreat
left
without giving battle.

to
The
wing of the Federal army pursued the enemy
South Mountain.
Here was a stubborn and bloody
contest.
The Union
ner's
it
forces succeeded in dislodging the
enemy from Turfield as
and Crampton's Gaps, and took possession of the
was abandoned under the friendly covering of the night.

battle of
This
engagement was called the
South Mountain by the
Federals, and the battle of Boonsboro by the Confederates.
The Union
erate loss as
oners.
loss
was about two thousand, and the Confedin killed
many
and wounded, besides 1,500
pris-
The Union army had forced

tains,
a passage through the
moun-
but Lee had gained time to concentrate his scattered
forces.
(189)
190

Sept. 15, 1862.
Soiitli
The Fall of Harper's Ferry,

fully realized,
Scarcely
had the exultant news of the victory of
Mountain been
when
all
joy was dispelled by the sad tidings of
the disastrous defeat of the
Union
forces at Harper's Ferry.
This famous; place, so often the scene of conflict and disaster in

the progress of the war,
had been intrusted
to Col.
Dixon
IT.
Miles,
When
of
McClellan was reinstated
to the
command
of the
Army
the Potomac, he recommended

l)iit
the withdrawal of the
11,000 troops at Harper's Ferry,

ruled him,
Halleck unwisely over-
and
war
soon they were withdrawn as Confederate
prisoners of
Lee sent Stonewall Jackson with 20,000 men against Harper's Ferry.
Skirmishing commenced on the afternoon of the
12th of Se])tember, and continued until

15th.
Monday, September
During the progress of the
conflict, the
enemy had been
reinforced.
In vain had Col. Miles, on Sunday, implored fur
I'einforcements.
The
plae<^
had been threaten(Ml for
a
it
week,
to the
but adequate precaution had not been exercised to save
Nation.
tion
At
8 o'clock on
Monday morning
^liles
the Federal
ammuni-
was cxhansted.
(ôl.
immediately called a council of
war, which dt'tei'mined to capitulate, as further resistance would

lead to a needless loss of life.
Previous
to the snrrender, all the
cavalry, abont two thonsand in nnnd)er, succeeded in cutting

their
way through
the (Confederate works, and in
making
their
its
escape.
After capitulation had been proposed, but before

(ôl.
terms had been agreed upon,
Miles was mortally wounded
191
to fall
bj one of the bursting

enemy's cannon.
shells
which continued
from the
Battle of Antietam, Sept.

the enejny at
17, 1862.
After
the defeat of
South Mountain, they continued their retreat
toward the Potomac.
Lee halted when he reached the heights
between the village of Sharpsburg and Antietam creek; here he

concentrated his scattered corps.
Jackson returned with his
wearied troops flushed with the victory at Harper's Ferry, and

all
prepared for the impending
conflict.
McClellan reconnoitered the Confederate position on the

15tli of
September, and the next day he developed his plan of
attack.
Hooker occupied the

and Meade the
right of the
Union army. Burn-
side the left,
center.
Hooker crossed Antietam
creek late in the afternoon.
Scarcely more than a skirmish
ensued before darkness came.
Early on the morning of the

began.
assault
17tli of
September the
conflict
General Hooker's division opened the engagement.
The
became furious.
Hooker was seriously wounded, and

Gen. Sumner took his command.
lost,
compelled to leave the
field.
Four times the ground he contended for was

times retaken.
and four
The operations
of Burnside on the left wine'

the right.
to
were
as vigorous as those of
Hooker on
to
At four
o'clock Gen.
McClellan sent word
Burnside
advance and
all
get possession of the enemy's batteries in front of him, at
hazards.
After a spirited engagement the
hill
was taken, but
as
no reinforcements were sent to him by McClellan, who had 15,000 reserves in the rear, he was unable
to
hold what he had
192
g'ained against the
augmented forces of the
foe.
He
was driven
back to a position in front of the bridge.
The Union advance

The
strugde-
was impetuous, the Confederate defense was as obstinate.

artillery in the center did effective work.
The protracted
gle
had nearly exhausted both
sides.
At length darkness
scended upon the horrible scene, and closed the conflict of the
day.
field;
On
the one hand, the
enemy had not been driven from

renew the
the
on the other, the Union troops retained the position of

conflict.
original assault, expecting to

rested on the ISth.
Clellan's cavalry
Both armies
But on
the
morning of the 19th, when Mcthe river, they discovered that
moved toward
Lee had quietly moved
off across the
Potomac during the

the
field.
night,
leaving his dead and desperately
wounded on
The Union
loss
was 12,469
as reported
by
^McClellan.
Lee
reported his loss at 10,000, while his division
commanders
at 13,533.
placed the aggregate in killed,
wounded and missing
The
The
effect of this battle
was a victory for the Union army.
ISTorth
was saved from further invasion, and Washington
relieved
from imminent danger.

a
Gen. Lee dispatched Stuart, the noted cavalry leader, on

raid into Pennsylvania with 1,500 horse.
He made
a circuit of
McClellan's
army October
9th to 12th.
Crossing the Potomac
at Williamsport, he
proceeded as far as Chambersburg.

stores, destroyed property,
He
for-
aged the country, plundered
and took
cav-
away
as
much booty
as his troopers could carry.
The Union
making
alry went in pursuit of them, but they succeeded in

escape,
their
and again joined the ranks of Lee's army.
193
the Slienan-
The Confederate army under Lee passed down

doah Valley.
liic
His own headquarters were
at Berrysville,
and
army
in the vicinity of Winchester.
He had been
reinforced
by the troops from West Virginia.
McOlellan, after a delay at
Antietam, moved southeast of the mountains, and located his

headquarters at Salem.
It
was evident that the future plans of the commanding gentwo armies were incomplete and undevelo]jed
at this
erals of the
time.
Reconnoitering expeditions were sent out to ascertain the

Several skirmishes occurred, pro-
plans of the opposing armies.
ductive of no decisive results.
Winter was
fast approaching;
almost two months had elapsed since the battle of Antietam,
and nothing of importance had taken

faction existed with the tardy
place.
in
General
dissatis-
manner
which McClellan had
pursued the enemy.

ton,
On
the 5th of November, while at Warrento
an order was conveyed
him by Gen. Buckingham

as
that he
had been relieved of the duties
commander
of the
Army
of
the Potomac, and had been superseded
by Gen. Ambrose E.
'N. J.
Burnside.
He was
ordered to report at Trenton,

oiRcers,
McClellan held the devotion of his
and the whole
body of the army were enthusiastic in their affection for him.

Burnside himself would gladly have served under McClellan,
but he had no alternative except to disobey orders
tantly assumed
;
so
he reluc-
command
of the
Army
of the
Potomac and Mc-
Clellan took his departure on Nov. 10th.
Battle of Fredericksburg, Dec.
13,
1862.
The
movea
ment of the army toward Fredericksburg was commenced on
13
194
direct line for conducting operations against
Eichmond, whicli
was now
contemplated.
As Burnside moved from Warrenton
along the north bank of the Rappahanock, Lee
made
a parallel
movement along
the south bank.
By
forced marches the Con-
federate army succeeded in occupying Fredericksburg in ad-
vance of the Union army, and at once proceeded to fortify their

front.
By
!N'ov.
2bth the Federal army was concentrated at

is
Falmouth, which
Fredericksburg.
on the north side of the stream, across from

surren-
The next day Burnside demanded the
der of the city, which was refused.

of about 90,000 men,
Lee had assembled an army

a force of 120,000.
opposed by
Finally, preparations for the crossing of the river were com-
menced on the 11th of December.
Those constructing the ponfire
toon bridges, being exposed to a deadly
from the Confederate
sharpshooters, were three times driven back. Volunteers charged
upon the sharpshooters, and drove them away,

bridges were completed, and the
after
which the
army passed
over the river with-
out any
obstruction.
On
the 13th of
December began the
obstinate and bloody
battle of Fredericksburg.
to fortify
The enemy had exerted every energy
themselves with impregnable defenses.
large por-
tion of the
army was posted behind

troops
a stone wall four feet high.
The Federal
made
a valiant and determined effort to
drive the foe from their defenses.
Again and again they
charged upon the enemy's works, but each time they were driven
back with frightful slaughter.
Of
all
the Federal troops en-
gaged, those under Franklin alone had gained an advantage.
THE AKMY OF THE POTOMAC.
195
attempt to take
At length
it
became evident that
an.y further
the heights would be futile, and result in a continuation of the

reckless destruction of
life.
The
troops were compelled to retire
from the scene of
their heroism,
and took a position beyond the

foe.
range of the batteries of the unconquerable

'No fighting of
14th.
any importance took place on Sunday, the

the next day.
Some skirmishing occurred on

former position.
in
this
During the
following night, Burnside withdrew his forces across the Rap-
pahannock
to their
loss
The Federal
battle
was 1,128
killed,
9,105
wounded, 3,234 missing.

5,000.
The Confederate
loss
was about
The
great disparity of Federal loss was due to the
superior advantages of position and protection enjoyed by the
Confederates, and to their vast

action.
number
of guns brought into
Burnside wished to repeat the assault on the 14th, but the

firm protests of his officers against such suicidal madness in-
duced him
to give
way
in his desires.
to
Lee was blamed for not leaving his defenses

demoralization of the
left his
complete the
to have
Army
of the Potomac.
For Lee
works before the defeat of Burnside, would have been
to invite defeat;
and for him
to
have assailed the Union army
in their defenses at
Falmouth, would have been a repetition of
Burnside's blunders.
The
the
usefulness of Burnside as
at
commander
and
of the
Army
of
Potomac was
an end.
Officers
soldiers alike felt that
he had misjudged in ordering an
assault
upon the strong
de-
196
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
At
his
CAMPAIGNS.
fenses of Fredericksburg.
own
request he was relieved
of this
command by
the President, and Joseph
Hooker was
appointed to succeed him.
Hooker arrived
at
Falmouth on the
26th of January to assume the responsibilities of his
new
duties.
period of several months elapsed before the
Army
of the
Potomac again met the
enemy
in battle.
CHAPTEE
XV.
CHANCEIjIiORS VII^LE
The Battle of Chancelloesville, May 1-3, 1863. When Gen. Hooker took command of the Army of the Potomac,
its spirit
and
efficiency
were
at a
low ebb.
Desertions occurred
their regi-
at the rate of
200 a day.
The number absent from

rolls
ments as shown by the

soldiers
was 2,922
officers
officers
and 81,964
and non-commissioned
in hospitals, on leave,
or detached on duty; but
many had
deserted.
The frequent
audacious Confederate cavalry raids during the winter indicated the confidence and elation of the enemy, and the apathy
born of despair, of the Federals.
The Union army, though

and more
still
greater in numbers, was probably at this time no match on equal
terms for
its
better disciplined, self-confident
deter-
mined
foe.
Hooker very properly devoted two months
to organ-
izing his army, disciplining his troops, and exalting the spirits
of his men.
His energy and resources were
such, that in a short
time he had at his

efficiency to
command an army
equal in numbers and
any ever seen on
this continent, save that
which
McClellan commanded in the
first
three months of 1861.
The
infantry numbered 100,000; artillery,

13,000.
10,000; and cavalry,
As
horses and feed were both scarce in the South,
there was not and never had been a Confederate cavalry force
that could stand against the one at Hooker's
(197)
command.
198

side of the
Stoneman was dispatched up tbe north

nock April 27th, 1863, with
Eappahan-
orders to cross
above the Orange
&
Alexandria Kailroad; to strike Fitz
Hugh
Lee's cavalry, near

off
Oulpeper Court House, capture Gordonsville, and cut
Lee's
communication with Kichmond

burg
by destroying the Fredericks-
& Richmond
Railroad, telegraph lines and bridges.
The next
day, April 28th,
Hooker
set his
infantry and
artil-
lery in motion
from Falmouth for a campaign against Lee.

at
Howard's and Slocum's corps crossed the Rappahannock

Kelly's Ford, and the
Rapidan
at
Germania
Mills, next day,
and
then
moved
toward
Chancellorsville.
Meade's
corps
crossed
rrossed the Rapidan at Ely's Ford, lower down.
Couch
with his corps at the United States Ford, on pontoons.
These
movements had been masked by a feint of crossing below Fredericksburg.
Reynolds's, Sickles's and Sedg^vick's corps, how-
ever, did cross
some distance below Fredericksburg,
after the
river
had been forded above.
Thus
far.
Gen. Hooker had
signal success in seizing the fords

"N'ever
and crossing the streams.

of administering a
did a general feel
more sanguine
great and crushing defeat to his opponent.

in one
" I have Lee's
army
hand and Richmond in the other," was

as
his exultant
remark
sion
he rode up to the single but capacious (at once manits
and tavern) house that then, with
appendages, consti-
tuted Chancellorsville.
Leaving a small force for the defense of Fredericksburg,
Lee pushed his main army,
at least
50,000 strong, down the
Gordonsville, road to a point half-way to Chancellorsville.
THE ARMY OF THE TOTOMAO.
199
of Falmouth, to
Hooker had
guard
left
Gen. Gibbons in
command
the stores;
and Sedgwick had his own corps of 22,000

about
men below
Fredericksburg, leaving the Union forces
70,000 in the vicinity of Chancellorsville.

fought, on the 1st,
tles
And
here was
2d and 3d of May, one of the bloodiest batto
of the war.
Hooker had planned
move from above Fredof the other wing,
ericksburg, while Sedgwick, in

to
command
was
move from below; and
thus,
by a simultaneous movement,
crush the foe between them.
Gen. Hooker had been obliged to leave behind him most of

his heavier guns.
He was
enveloped in a labyrinth of woods
and
thickets,
which were traversed by narrow roads, every inch

to the Confederates,
of which
was familiar
his
and unknown
woods
to
Hooker and
men.
His ignorance
of the region of
pre-
vented Hooker from bringing most of his troops into action at
any one time.
While Pleasonton's
artillery
was supporting
Sickles's infan-
try to arrest the impetuous charge of 25,000 troops under Stone-
wall Jackson, night descended

the contest.
upon the
scene, but did not
end
In front of these batteries
fell
Stonewall Jackson.*
Mortally wounded in a dense wood, shrouded by the gloom of

night, while
men were
falling all
around him from the grape
of his skirmishers, and exposed himself and dangerous fire of the Confederate sharpshooters, posted in the timber. It was now between 9 and 10 o'clock at night the little body of horsemen was taken for Federal cavalry, and the regiments on the right and left fired a volley into them, with the most lamentable results. Several of his staff were killed. Gen. Jackson received one ball
*"Gen. Jackson rode ahead
to a close
200
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
it
CAMPAIGNS.
and canister of the Union guns,
may seem
his
difficult to deter-
mine whether Jackson was shot by
own
or by
Union men.
The
were
best authority substantiates the theory that his

inflicted
loss
wounds
by his own men.
His
was the greatest the Confederates had yet sustained
in the fall of a single
man, though Albert Sidney Johnston had

Jackson's power over his
It
military talent of a high order.
men
His
was unexcelled by any
officer.
was
justified
by his sound-
ness of judgment, as well as by his intrepidity of spirit.
attacks were soundly planned, and the opposing forces well

calculated.
He
refused to sacrifice the lives of his
men
in vain
endeavors, with the same spirit that led

charges.
him
in his most brilliant
While Gen. Hooker was leaning against a

cellorsville
pillar,
pillar of the
Chan-
house watching the battle, a cannon-ball struck the
hurling him to the floor insensible.
At
this very
moment
Gen. Sickles was committing great havoc upon the Confederate

lines,
but as his cartridges were running low, he sent twice to
arm, shattering the bone and severing an artery; a second passed through the same arm below the elbow; a third passed through the palm of his hand. He fell from his horse, and was caught by Captain Wormly, to whom he said, 'All my wounds are by my own men.' "The firing was responded to by the Federals, wiio made a sudden advance and actually charged over Jackson's body. He was not discovered, however; and after the Federals were driven back he was rescued. One of the litter-bearers was shot down, and Jackson fell from the shoulders of the men, receiving a severe contusion, and injuring He was taken to the hospital, and died eight days after. His his side. remains were taken to Lexington, Va., his own home." [From the Life of Stonewall Jackson By a Virginian. 1
in his left
;
201
Hooker
for assistance.
But
as
Hookor was
Iiarl
lyinc: iiiW)nspioiis,
and Couch, who was next

sibility of cnuiniand,
in rank,
not assuiucd thr responto Sickles,

t/>
no aid was sent
and he was
Sickles, he
compelled
to fall back.
Had
a corps been sent

his.
believes victory would
have been
By
noon,
Hooker
the
re-
gained
consciousness
and assumed
coiniii;iiid.
lint
pre-
cious hour had passed while the
army was without

to
a head.
at
After Lee had dealt

Cliancellorsville,
telling bloAv
Hooker's forces
he learned that Sedgwick had carried
the
heights of Fredericksburg.
Leaving Hooker inactive from thf

his
blow already
inflicted
upon him, he turned upon
new
it.
foe,
crowding him back
to the river,
and next day across

fall
Hooker's plan of having Sedgwick
upon the rear of Lee's
army simultaneously with
his
own
attack in front, and between
them crush the enemy, had
failed.
How
hazardous an attempt
distant points,
at concerted action of a great
army from
was not
now learned
for the first time.

ofit
After Sickles was
of the way, Lee turned his whole force
toward Hooker, v^ho
wâs quietly sitting
behind his hastily conthe
structed defenses at Chancellorsville.
But
enemy had been
marching and fighting until they were exhausted, ami were

slaughtered in their reckless assault on our batteries on Sunday,
May
3d; and Lee was not willing to repeat the attack.

little
The dav
passed with but
skirmishing, and during the night Hooker
recrossed the river to his old camping-grounds at Falmouth.
This defeat cost the Union army in killed and wounded,

17,107 men, and two generals,
Berry
and Whipple.
The
202
Confederate
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
loss is variously
estimated at from 12,000 to 18,000
men, and Generals Paxton and Jackson

son,
^^
Stonewall " Jack-
whose presence was
like
magic
to his troops.
The operations
advised, feeble,
of the cavalry under

inefficient.
Stoneman had been
ill-
and
If his forces had been kept
together he could have severed all communications between Lee
and Eichmond,
isolating
him from
supplies,
and rendered
his
position precarious and dangerous.
Dissipating his forces as
he did, he was too weak to meet the enemy, and kept running
from them instead of running
after them,
and gave
his expedi-
tion the appearance of a furtive raid on smokehouses

roosts, rather
and hen-
than that of a great military movement of a stu-
pendous war.
Thus ended the campaign

serious disaster that the
at Chancellorsville,
the second
Army
of the
Potomac had sustained
within a period of six months.
The
hearts of the people of the
South beat in exultation as they beheld the ascendency of the

Southern arms.
Gloom and depression 'pervaded
the
homes of
the loyal people in the lôrth, while the Southern sympathizers
became clamorous for a termination of

basis of independence of the South.
hostilities
upon the
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CHAPTER
XVI.
GETTYSBURG.
Lee's Second Invasion of the North, June and July,
1863.
After
the battle of Chancellorsville the two opposing
armies occupied exactly the same positions which they did some
days after the battle of Antietam,
Hooker
at
Falmouth and
lost
Lee across the river at Fredericksburg.

20,000
Hooker
some
men by
expiration of their term of service.
His army
had been depleted after the sanguinary

ville.
battle of Chancellors-
Gen. Lee's forces had been reinforced by the hasty return
of Longstreet
from
his sterile demonstration before Suffolk,
and
by drafts upon every quarter from which a regiment could be

secured.
Gen. Lee, with probably a superiority of numbers, for a temporary period, after a month of rest and waiting set his army in
motion up along the south bank of the Rappahannock, concentrating forces at Culpeper Court House.
And
then began his
second invasion of the North.

Valley, on
Passing down the Shenandoah

at Winchester,
June 14 he defeated R. H. Milroy
and took about 4,000 prisoners.

alarm, organized two
vania,
militia.
The Government had taken
the
new
military departments in Pennsyl-
and
called
on the nearest States for a large number of

(203)
20-J-
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.

Gen. Hooker began to marcli
nortli
205
along the Blue Ridge,

to Centerville, covering
watching
its passes,
through Dumfries
right.
Washington on the
Meantime our cavulrv

I.
uixlcr l^lcas-
onton was constantly confronted by that of
re iuhIci- Stuart,
al<tiiii
and nearly every day witnessed some skiniiishinn

passes of the mountains.
thr
The Confederates
Chambersburg,
crossed the Potomac, taking possession of
Carlisle,
and York.
Gen. Hooker crossed the

to Frederick.
Potomac
at
Edwards Ferry, and advanced
His
army, being strengthened by 15,000 men from the defenses of
Washington, numbered about 100,000, while

about equal in
It
size.
Lite's
army was
was very imperative that a force
sufficiently strong should
be concentrated to repel the invaders.

view. Gen.
With
this
purpose in
Hooker desired the troops
stationed at
Maryland
Heights opposite Harper's Ferry to be withdrawn from that

point.
to the
Gen. Halleck, General-in-chief
at
Washington, objected
to
withdrawal of the troops, and instructed Hooker
defend
the place on the left and Washington on the right, and meet the
invading army.
After communicating with Halleck, and receiv-
ing his instruction, Hooker sent the following resignation
Sandy Hook, June

:
27, 1863.
Maj. Gen. H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief Your original instruction required me to cover Harper's Ferry and Washington. I have now imposed upon me, in addition, an enemy in front, of more than my numbers. I beg to be understood, respectfully but firmly, that I am unable to comply with this condition, with the means at my disposal, and earnestly request that I may at once be relieved from the position I occui)y. Joseph Hooker, Maj. Gen.
206

to
Halleck never had been favorable

of this army.
Hooker
as
commander
He
had prevented had opposed
his selection as the successor
of McClellan, and
Biirnside,
aiforded.
his selection after the defeat of
and now very naturally improved the opportunity
The next day Hooker was
relieved of the
command
at Frederick,
and the army was placed under the command of
Gen. G. G. Meade, who was advised that he might do what he

pleased with the ^Maryland Heights
men
while Couch and his
militia at Harrisburg, estimated at 20,000,
were
also placed
under his orders.
Such a change of commanders on the eve of a great
battle for
no more urgent reasons has but few parallels in history.

ever his faults,
What-
Hooker was loved and

Meade.
trusted by his soldiers,
who knew
less of
If they had been consulted, they
would have
Hooker.
cast
an overwhelming majority vote in favor of
Battiê of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863.

the Confederate
Gen.
Ewell of
levied
army occupied
Yôrk
June 28th, and
upon the town for $100,000 in

and
at
cash,
and
a vast quantity of food
clothing.
Lee had hastened
to concentrate his
whole army
Gettysburg when he heard that the Union army had crossed
the Potomac.
Meade had
fixed a line along
Pipe creek, some
fifteen miles southeast of Gettysburg, as
advantageous ground
whereon
to
meet the foe; but an unexpected encounter precipi-
tated the grand collision,
and brought on the great
battle of
Gettysburg.
On
July 1st Gen. Buford marched upon Gettysburg, where
207
he encountered the van of the Confederate army, under Gen.
Heth, of Hill's corps, and drove them back upon their division,
by
whom
our troops were in turn repelled.
While Gen. John
F. Reynolds, in
command
of two corps, was rapidly coming up,

to reconnoiter,
and while he went forward
he
fell
mortally
wounded by
a Confederate sharpsliooter.
And now
troops
began a rapid concentration of
forces.
The Union
had been greatly outnumbered

1st,
in the
engagement north
into
west of the village July

Gettysburg.
of the village.
and were driven

on Cemetery
and through
They were
rallied
Hill, just south
The Confederates did not
press the advantage,
fearing reinforcements had come,
as indeed they had.
During the afternoon and night
the entire Confederate
army
and the entire Union army, save one corps which arrived on the
forenoon of the 2d, had been concentrated along the ridges at
Gettysburg, facing each other at distances of from one to two
miles.
The next day, July
2d,
was spent in skirmishes and prepara-
tion for battle, until about three o'clock,

assault
when a
ifierce
general
was made upon the front and flank of
Sickles's corps,
who had advanced from
one-half to three-fourths of a mile
nearer the Confederate line than

do.
Meade had
enemy
instructed
him
to
desperate struggle ensued, but he was forced back with
heavy
loss to
Round Top, which
the
assailed with great
vehemence and determination.

carried
it,
They
at one time
had nearly
but when reinforcements were thrown upon their
front, they in turn
were driven
to the ridge
from which
Sickles
208

to
had been expelled, and
which he shonld not have advanced.
When
so
night closed on the 2d day of July, the Confederates felt
encouraged and confident.
Their
loss,
though great, was not
heavy as Meade's.
After several sharp conflicts on Friday, July 3d, there was
a pause while the
enemy was making

At
its
disposition of troops
effort,
and posting
its
batteries for one
supreme
which was
to
decide the terrible contest.
length, at one o'clock, 115 heavy

terrific
guns from Hill's and Longstreet's front concentered a

fire
upon Cemetery
Hill, the center
and key of the position of

of the hill
the Federal army.
A little behind the crest
had been
fit
Meade's headquarters.
to the
About 100 Union guns made

artillery duel
reply
enemy.
For two hours the
waged.
Finding
our guns had become heated,

to cool
Meade gave
orders to cease firing,
them; and believing that the Union guns had been

enemy's infantry emerged from behind the batterreserves,
silenced, the
ies,
and,
moving swiftly forward, supported by the
confident of victory,
made one determined,

they came
desperate and con-
summate
tlieir
effort to drive the valiant
defenders of the Union from

Pickett's splendid division,
stronghold.
On
the flower and pride of their army, in the lead, in that famous
but fatal charge.

centrated upon
like
Grape and canister and musket-ball were

the advancing foe.
It
con-
Their lines melted away
snow before a summer's sun.
was a
fruitless sacrifice.
They gathered up
defeat.
their broken fragments
and retreated
in
Gen. Meade, though not brilliant and daring in his exploits,
209
was wise and
able.
The
Confcflorate batteries were strongly
posted on Seminary Ridge; his on Cemetery Kidge.
fought a defensive battle and
won
a decisive victory.
He had Had he
ii<>
assailed Lee's batteries, the result miglit liavc hcfii ditfcn'iit.
Had Lee
to
assailed Bnrnside on the heiglits of Fahnouth, he
doubt would have met a similar defeat.

assail
Burnside chose rather
Lee's
army
intre*nched in a stronger positirm than
Meade's
at Gettysburg.
Meade
mediately.
did not follow the retreating Confederate
army im<li<l
His ammunition had becctme
scarce.
He
nut
know
The
that Lee's
was more completely exhausted.

lay dead or
Xearly one-
fourth of his
army
wounded on
the field of battle.
rest of the
army were worn out with

battle.
the desperate struggle

at ease,
during the two-days
Only one brigade, standing
constituted the reserve, not brought into use.

his
If he had pressed
his
victory by an immediate attack upon Seminary Ridge,
forces
might have met a repulse.
These are the reasons Meade
did not immediately pursue the retreating foe.
The
evolntion of events after

of the
Meade
took
command
of the
Army
Potomac showed
that he had
made
a mistake in
not bringing the Maryland Heights and Couch's troops from
Harrisburg, within aiding distance as a general engagement
became imminent.
They were placed
at his disposal.
With
French's 11,000 from Maryland Heights and Couch's 15,000

or 20,000 at TTarrisburg, his force would have been sufficient
to intercept the retreat of Lee,
and administer
much more
crushing punishment upon the Confederate army.
14
210

lost
The Union army The Confederates
2,834 killed, 13,709 wounded, 6,643

;
missing (mainly taken prisoners)
total,
23,186.
lost 2'2,500 killed
and wounded, besides
about 6,000 prisoners.
During the 2d and 3d the cavalry of both armies kept hovering around the flank of the adversary, with occasional collisions.
At
the close of the battle, Gen. Pleasonton, in
command
of the
cavalry, being satisfied of the demoralization of the
enemy and
to order a
of the depletion of his ammunition, urged
Meade
general advance.
He
chose, however, not to do this.
On
the
4th an advance division of Gen. Couch's militia, about four
thousand strong, arrived as reinforcements
to the
Union army.
When Meade became

retreat,
convinced that the enemy was in full

to
on the 5th he ordered Gen. Sedgwick's Sixth Corps
follow on the track of the fugitives.
Reinforcements were soon
sent to the aid of Sedgwick, but he chose rather to hover around

their rear, watching them, than to bring about a general en-
gagement.
Gen. Lee recrossed the Potomac at Falling Water and Williarnsport.
Owing
to the fact that the
weak guard
left
by Lee
at these places
had been taken by Gen. French, a delay occurred

which enabled the pursuing forces
collecting material
in the retreat of Lee's army,
of
Meade
to overtake
them while they were
for the reconstruction of the bridge which
had been destroyed.

by Meade
to con-
council of the corps
commanders
called
sider the expediency of an attack
upon Lee's army, next morn-

ing, decided against
it.
211
it
bj a vote of
tliree in
favor and five atâinst

lie
While Meade agreed with the minority,
did not wisli to

Tlie
niîlit
take the responsibility of overruling the majority.

the 13th, Lee's
of
its
army
crossed the Potomac, and contimicd
marcli sonth, with occasional skirmishes between the opposing

forces.
CHAPTEK
XVII.
GRANT'S OVERLAND CAMPAIGN.

Lieut. Gen. U.
S.
Grant
12,
OF the N'orth,
March
Command of at.l the Armies 1864. On the 29th of February,

in
1864, Congress revived the grade of Lieutenant-General,
rank
liitlierto
accorded only to George Washington (Gen. Scott

b}^
being such only
brevet), and authorizing the President to
assign the officer of that rank to

the United States.
command
of all the armies of

S.
Major-General Ulysses
Grant,
who had
achieved a series of brilliant victories in the West, was chosen

to this
command, receiving
his
commission of Lieutenant-Gen-
eral on the 9th of
March
following.*
On
the 10th he visited
the
Army
of the Potomac, with headquarters at

visit to
Brandy
Station,
to per-
and after making a flying
Sherman
in the
West
fect plans for a simultaneous
movement
of the armies in the
West toward Atlanta, and

Richmond, he returned
headquarters in the
liad done.
the
Army
of the
Potomac toward
his
to
Brandy
Station,
and established
field,
instead of at Washington as Ilalleck
Gen. Meade retained immediate
command
of the
consoli-
Army
of the Potomac, which
had been reorganized and
dated from five corps into three,
commanded
respectively by
*He was nominated

mand
to the rank,
March
1,
1864,
and assumed com-
of all the armies on the 12th of March.
(212)

Generals Wiiifiold
S.
213
S.
Hancock
It
(2ci),
George
Warron
(5tli),
and John Sedgwick (6th).
was
statiniuMl in the viV-inity of
Cnlpeper Court Honse; while Lee's

ginia was
i:)osted
Army
of Northern Vir,
along the Kapidan from Earnett's Ford to
Morton's Ford, a distance of eighteen or twenty miles.
Gen.
Bnrnside, commanding the Ninth Corps in Maryland, crossed

the
Potomac and joined Meade's army, thongh
his cf>r])s
was not
formally incorporated into the

the crossing of the Rapidan.
relieved
Army
of the
Potomac
nntil after
Gen. Halleck was announced as
from
his
command
at his
own
request,
and assigned
to
duty in Washington as " Chief of Staff to the Army.''
On
the very day that
Sherman
set
out on his
''
Great March "
south, General
Grant with an army of more than 100,000 men

''
commenced the
Great Overland Campaign " against General
Lee and Richmond.
The order
for the
set in
movement
motion
at
of the
army
fol-
was issued
May
2d,
and the army
midnight
lowing, crossing the
Rapidan on Lee's right
at
Germania and
Ely's Fords.
The advantage
of this
movement was found
in the fact that
it
established an easy avenue of
communications
for
snjiplies,
keeping the army near navigable waters, connected with Washington and other depots of supplies.
No
protecting force would
be necessary to cover these short land routes from rivers to the
army.
The
objection consisted in the character of the country to
the south of the Rapidan, through which the

a distance of fifteen or twenty miles,
army had
it
to
march
and in which
would be
obliged to fight the
first battle.
214
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
5-6, 1864.
The Battle of the Wilderness, May

''
The
Wilderness," which
is
now
hist<n'ic, is a tract
of broken tableforest,
land,
seamed with ravines, and covered with
and over
a very large part of its extent
was an almost impenetrable underBesides
growth.
Several good roads crossed the Wilderness.
these there were
numerous wood
In
roads, connecting mines, farms,
main
roads, etc.
little
this labyrinth, nnndêrs, artillery

;
and cav-
alry were of
account
but local knowledge of the ground,
command
of the roads,
and advantage of
position,
were of
prime importance.
Gen. Grant had expected, by moving his army
to be able to pass
at midnight,
through this wilderness
to the
open country
unmolested.
But
Lee, alert and vigilant, discovered Grant's

his
movement.
Moving
army eastward
to
meet the TTnion
ad-
vance, he formed his lines of battle in the Wilderness some six
miles east of his strong defenses on

a safe refuge in case of disaster.
Mine Kun, which

The
battle
proffered
opened unexpect-
edly to the
Union Generals on
the
morning of
May
5th,
and conGen.
tinued for two days with persistent and desperate fighting.
Lee had intrenched the whole front of his army, behind which
he was willing to receive an attack but from Avhich he Avas not
desirous of advancing.
As
the battle in the Wilderness
was not
of Grant's choosing, but wholly Lee's, Grant resolved to resume

his march,
and accordingly moved southward, aiming
to con-
centrate his
army on
the high
ground around
Spottsylvania
Court House.
216
The Union
were 2,265
losses in this terrible conflict in the Wilrlorness
killed,
10,2^0 wounded, and 2,902 missing.
On
the
Union
side Gen.
James
S.
Wadsworth was
killed,
and
Gens. Hancock (slightly), Getty, Gregg, Owen, Bartlett,
Webb
and Carroll wonnded.

Lee's loss was no donbt considerably less than Grant's, as he
was fighting on the defensive most of the time, and.

of Ewell and Hill, well intrenched.
JNêvertheless,
is
in the case
their loss
was
severe, as their
it
own
Gens.
estimate,
which
the lowest made,
places
at 8,000.
Sam
Jones and Albert G. Jenkins

(dis-
were
killed.
x\mong the wounded were Gens. Longstreet
abled for months), Pickett, Pegram, and Hunter.
Spottsylvania Court House,

evening of
May
a
8-12, 1864.
On
the
May
7th,
Grant commenced
night movement to the

for-
left of Lee,
toward Richmond.
This brought Lee's army
ward.
Several spirited conflicts resulted in the march southforces.
ward between the opposing
On
the 9th the
Union troops were concentrated around
Spotr-
sylvania Court House, confronted by the

ginia under Lee.
of his
Army
of !N'orth Vir-
AVhile placing his guns, and bantering some

at flying bullets.
men who winced
Gen. Sedgwick was
instantly killed by a Confederate sharpshooter in a time of com-
parative quiet.
Gen. H. G. Wright succeeded
to his
command
next day,
results.
when
a general engagement took place with no decisive
Gen. Grant next morning

the following pithy bulletin
dis])atclied to tlie
Wnr
TV'pnrtmont
216

Headquarters in tfte Field, May 11, now ended the sixth day of heavy fighting. much in our favor.
1^64
8 a. m.
result to
"We have
this
The
time
is
Our
the loss of the
We
have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think enemy must be greater. have taken 5,000 prisoner by battle, whilst he has taken few from
losses
us but stragglers. I propone to fight
summer. U. S. Grant, Lientenant-General Conimanding the Armies of

out on this line if
it
takes all
the
U.S.
The next day was spent

getting ready for battle.
in reconnoitering, skirmishing,
and
The afternoon and night were
rainy.
When morning
density.
came, the rain gave place to a fog of intense

of this fog. Gen.
Under cover
Hancock advanced
to-
ward
the (Confederates in two lines.
Before him was a salient
angle of earthworks protecting the foe, behind which Gen. Ed-
ward Johnson's division of EwelFs corps

noiselessly sweeping over the rugged
rested.
Swiftly and
sjâce inter-
and wooded
vening betwêen the two
lines, the
Union troops pressed up
to
the very earthworks unobserved.
Dashing with a thundering
cheer over the front and flank of the enemy's works, and surprising the foe in his trenches, they captured Gen.
Edward
Johnson, Brig. Gen. Geo.

oners,
IT.
Stewart,^' and about 3,000 pris-
who were
over,
sent to the rear.
After the Confederates' sur-
prise
was
and their
rally to this point
was complete, one of
wêre old army friends before the opening of AVhen Stewart was brought before Hancock as a prisoner, the latter extended his hand and very cordially inquired, "How are you, Stewart?'' Stewart haughtily re])lied, "I am General Stewart, of the Confederate Army, and, under the circumstances, I decline to take your hand." "And under any other circumstances, General, I should not have offered it," was the prompt and fit response of the victor.
Stewart and Hancock
the war.

the most reiiiarkal^lc conflicts ever recoil led in
history ensued.
217
the annals of
succession.
fol-
Charge followed
clia
!;('
in
rapi<l
Five desperate assaults by Lee upon

lowed, but without success.
'Jdie
llic
captured works
men
fought hand-to-hand, with
their banners planted on opposite sides of the
same breastworks.
all
Five dreadful assaults bv the enemy were

frightful carnage, l)ut
ther.
refxdled
with
Hancock was unable
to
advance any far-
J\ain set in about noon, but the fighting continued until

conflict,
midnight, Avhen Lee's army was withdrawn from the
and
fortified a line
immediately in front of Hancock's.

its
The Union army resumed

mond.
march next day toward Richbases were established at

river.
As
it
moved southward, new

at
Port Koyal, and later
White House, on the York
The
base on the north of the Rapidan was abandoned for a

at Fredericksburg,
new one
at
and that
at
Fredericksburg for the one

at
Port Royal, and this one for the one
White House,
as the
army made
successive marches toward
Richmond.
Sheridan's Raid
Toward
Richiniond, INFay, 1804.
Gen.
Sheridan, with the better part of his cavalry led by .Merritt,
Wilson, and Gregg, was on
May
9th dispatched on a raid toward

railroads, stores,
J. E.
Richmond.
Moving southward, and destroying
and supplies, he met the Confederate cavalry under Gen.
B. Stuart at Yellow Tavern, a few miles north of Richmond.
Gen. Stuart and Brig.
Gen.
J.
B.
Gordon were mortally
wounded, and their force driven toward Ashland, leaving the

road to Richmond open.
The outer works
of the Confederate
capital were taken, but the inner
works could not be taken with
218
the force at the
THE CTVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
hand
and Sheridan moved north, and again joined
Army
of the Potomac, after an absence of little

to take part in the
more than
two weeks, in season

Harbor.
bloody battle of Cold
Genekal Butler's Movement Against Richmond

AND June, 1864.
roe,
in
May
Mon-
Gen. Butler, commanding

menace Richmond from that
his
artillery,
at Fortress
was sent
to
direction, at the
same time Grant began

his infantry
Overland Campaign.
25,000 strong. Gen.
Embarking
Butler
pro-
and
ceeded up the James river, and then passed southward by land

to
within three miles of
Petersburg.
Gen.
Beauregard was
summoned from Charleston

that
section,
to
,with all the available forces from
oppose Gen. Butler's demonstration.

to tlie effect that
N'ews
from Washington
Lee could not long withstand
the advance of Grant's vicorious army, led Butler north to participate in the expected speedy capture of
Richmond.
Gen.
Beauregard was not long in following the Union army toward
Richmond, and suddenly made a desperate attack upon

resulted in a loss of about four thousand
it,
-which
men
lines
to
Gen. Butler's
army, and almost an equal number to the Confederates.
There
to
was some fighting along the front of the
from the 17th
the 21st, with considerable loss on each side, but Avith no decisive results.
North Anna, May

Grant was moving
his
23-26,
1864. On
the 22d of
May, while
army from Spottsylvania Court House

Smith of Butler's command
to
south, he ordered Gen.
bring
all
the available troops,
some 10,000 in number,
to join the
Army

of the Potomac.
210
from Oon. Lrr a
Aftor
IJiitlcr's
Gon. Beaiiroonrrl
rpcoivrrl
Hke ordrr for troops, which was complird with.
army
behin
harl
1
hoen diminished he settled down
to a policy df inHction
intrenchments.
Gen.
Grant's
to "N'orth
flankinc^
advance from
Spnttsylvjiiiia
V.nrt
loss.
House
Rut
Anna was admirably
execnted, without nnv

liitrh
this mo\(')ii(Mit
was readily detected fi'om the
mi-oiukI
held by Lee,
who
possessed the best and most direct ronte to

to
Richmond.
Gen. Grant was compelled
make
considerable
detour eastward, over inferior roads.
When
its
the
Union army
reached Nortli
Anna
river,
it
found
old anta,2:onist planted
across the stream in an admirable position, and prepared to dis-
pute any further advance.
Hancock, Warren and Wright
ef-
fected a passage of the river with little difficulty, but Burnside
was driven back when he attempted

river between the right
to
push his corps across the

Real-
and
left
wings of the Union army.
izing that Lee's position, with his left resting on Little river and
his right protected
by
swamp and
his front strongly fortitied,
was almost imjiregnable, Grant,^' after deliberate and careful
*An incident in Grant's march, told by him: *'I was seated on the porch of a fine plantation house, waiting for Burnside's corps to pass. Meade and his staff, besides my own staff, were with me. The lady of the house, a Mrs. Tyler, and an elderly lady were ])resent. Burtiside, seeing me, came up on the porch, his big spurs and saber rattling as he walked. He touched his hat politely to the ladies, and said he supposed they had never seen so many live Yankees before. The elderly Many more.' lady spoke up promf)tly, saying, 'Oh, yes, I have. 'Where?' said Burnside. 'In Richmond.' Prisoners, of course, was
understood."
220
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
reconnoissance, caiitiouslj witlirlrcw his armj,

the front of the enemy's lines, recrossed
tlie
May
26,
from
river, and,
pnshing
Passing
eastward for a distance, again
set srnitli
for llichmond.
down
to tlie
Pamunkey, which he crossed
at llanovertown, he
pushed on for the Chickahominy.
Cold Harbor, June

the
1-12, 1864.
Gen.
army
Lee, marching by
so as to intercept
the shorter route, again intrenched his
movement southward
of the
Army
of the Potomac.
Grant
had sho\vn his aversion

Nôrth
to sacrificing the lives of his
men
at
Anna, while another avenue toward Richmond was
o23en.
Now
him
tified
he believed that the great object of the campaign required

to
disregard the advantages of position possessed by the for-
enemy.
Gen.
W.
F. Smith, with 10,000
men
detached
from Butler's command, arrived

took post on the
in the latter part of ^lay,
and
Union
right.
Gen. Meade gave orders for an
advance with a view to forcing a passage of the Chickahominy.
On
the afternoon of the 2d of
June an
assault
was made upon

to their
the advance
lines of the Confederates,
who were driven

first.
second
line,
which
Avas
much
stronger than the
Grant and
Meade
the
resolved that the Confederate lines should be broken on
morrow.
for-
Before sunrise on June 3d the whole Union front moved
ward bravely, firmly and swiftly

foe.
to a valiant assault of the
They were
re^julsed,
however,
with
terrible
slaughter.
Greeley says:
"Twenty minutes after the first shot was fired, 10,000 of onr men were stretched writhing on the sod, or still and calm in death; while
221
the enemy's loss was little more than 1,000. And when, some hours later, orders were sent by Gen. INIeade to each corps commander to renew the assault at once, without regard to any other, the men .împly and unanimously refused to obey."
The
of
total loss at
and aromid Cold Harbor was abont 13,000,
whom
1,700 were killed, 9,000 wounded, and abnut l\:UIO
missing.
There
is
no record of the Confederate

it is
loss
from the
27th of
May
to
12th of Jnne, but
estimated at abont three
or fonr thousand killed, wounded, and missing.
Gen. Lee, overestimating the
effect of the repulse
upon the
morale of our men, hazarded a night attack upon the hastily

constructed defenses of the Federal front, but he was repulsed
at every point.
On
the Gth an armistice of two hours,
from
four to six o'clock, was agreed upon for the removal of the
wounded lying between

dead.
the armies, and for the burial
<f
the
Grant now decided

right,
to cross the
Chickahominy far
to Lee's
move
across the James, and attack
Kichmond from
the
south.
This exposure of the Federal capital

little
to a possible attack
from Lee met with
favor among
authorities at Washington,
to
who had
that
a settled
and reasonable repugnance

to
any movement
would open the way

of the
Washington.
in
The Army
of the
Potomac was put

June
12th.
motion for the passage
James
river on
Gen. Grant's movement fr(jm Rapidan

called "
to
Cold Harbor
is
The Overland Campaign

the
" in contrast to McClellan's

before.
movement down
Potomac and Chesapeake two years
222
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
#
March upon Petersburg, June,

was
crossiiii^
1864.
While Gen. Grant

It be-
the James, he ordered Butler to attempt speedily
to take
Petersburg with the corps of Gen. Smith, which had
been returned to him from the
Army
of the Potomac.
came known that the van of Lee's army under A. P. Hill was
already south of Pichmond.
Petersburg,
river,
tlio
liead of sloop navigation
on the Appomattox
is
twenty-two miles south of Richmond,
the focus of all
railroads excepting one connecting the Confederate capital with
the south and southwest.
It
if
was poorly defended
at this time,
and could have been taken

orous
Gen. Smith had conducted a vig-
movement against
it.
But
inaction and hesitancy per-
mitted the opportunity to capture the place to pass by.

the night of
During
June 15th many
of Lee's veterans found rest and
shelter behind the works.
The next day
the Confederate
Army
of Virginia had taken refuge in and around
Richmond and
Petersburg, while most of the

in the vicinity of the
Army
of the
Potomac had arrived
same
places.
The
mainly
the
despei'ate struggle for Petersburg

to that city.
had drawn the enemy
Gen. Grant, believing that a large part of

yet arrived, ordered a general assault upon
enemy had not
Petersburg on the 18th.
The
assault
was not a
success.
The Federal
troops were re-
pulsed with heavy losses and a few prisoners.

sheltered behind their works, bore but light hjss.
It
The enemy,
had now been established that Petersburg could not be
carried by direct assault, no matter what force might be hurled

against
it.
223
Ki(;li-
From
that day the siege of Petersburg and
mond was
siege
resolved upon, and the regular
work of conducting the

in ward-
was begun.
Grant kept Lee constantly occupied
ing off his attacks.
His cavalry was
sent on various expedi-
tions; one point of line
would be threatened, and then another

chieftain repelled
all
attacked.
The Confederate
attempts tn
wejiii!iii
gain the southern capital.
But he witnessed
it
his
army
away from day
to
day faster than
could be reinforced, while
the heavy drains
upon the Union ranks could be replenished by

Tn vain did Lee try
to
frequent reinforcements.
break through
the lines of his antagonist, or to divert his attention by raids
threatening Washington.
closer
He
only beheld the Union lines press
and firmer around his dwindling and weakening army, and besieged
in the
as it lay intrenched
Confederate capital.
The Mine Explosion, July

fort projected in
30,
1864.
Gen.
Burnside's
corps held a position directly in front of Petersburg, where a
advance of the Confederate

lines.
lines,
and
ex-
tended within 150 yards of the Union
Under
this fort
lines,
a mine had been run frum a convenient ravine within our
which was entirely screened from the enemy's observation.

the 30th of July the
On
mine was
fired,
annihilating the fort and
destroying the garrison of 300 men, leaving a gigantic hollow

of loose earth, 150 by 60 feet, and twenty-five or thirty feet
deep.
The Union guns opened
all
along the front upon the
astonished enemy, and a strong storming party was ordered to

press through the gap thus formed.
224
Gen. Grant speaks of the mine affair as follows:

'^
There had been some delay on the

of the troops did get in
rifle-pits as
left
and right in adto the right
vancing, bnt some
and tnrn
and
left,
carrying the
I expected they wonld do.
" I'here had been great consternation in Petersbnrg, as
we
were well aware,

to explode.
.
alxnit the
.
rnmored mine that we were going
We
said
had learned throngh a deserter who
had come in that the people had very wild rnmors abont what
was going
tersbnrg
;
on.
They
we had nndermined
npon
the whole of Pe-
that they were resting
npon a slumbering volcano.

this state of feeling,
somewhat based
expected that
my
calculations
and
when
flee
the
mine was exploded the troops
to the right
and
left
would
in all directions, and that our troops, if they
moved
the
]:)roniptly,
could get in and strengthen themselves before

to realize the true situation.
be.
enemy had come
It
was
just
as I expected it
would
We
to
could see the
men running
It
with-
out any ap])arent object except to get away.
was half an
hour before musketry-firing,

our
any amount, was opened upon
men
in the crater.
It
was an hour before the enemy got

it
artillery to play
upon them, and
was nine
o'clock before
Lee
got
'^
up reinforcements
to help in expelling
our troops.
It cost us 4,000
The
f'ffort
was a stupendous
captured, and
failure.
all
men,
on
mostly, however,
due
to the inefficiency
the part of the corps

division
command(M% and the incompetency of the

wlio
commander
was sent
to lead the assault."
Embarrassments.
Gen.
He
Sherman, who was
at
Atlanta,
wanted reinforcements.
was willing
to take the
raw troops

being raised in the N'ortliwest.
225
tliat
Grant kept watch
(^jn-
federate reinforcements should not be sent from Viriiinia, to

7nove against
that Gen.
Sherman from
in
his north or east.
It
was
feartnl
Kirby Smith,
might
also
command
of the trans-"Mi8sissipi)i
river forces,
go against Sherman; but a force was

in check.
held ready to hold
him
In the midst of these embar-
rassments, Halleck informed Gi'ant that there was an organized
scheme on foot in the North
to resist the draft;
he suggested
that troops might be required to put the rising down,
and ad-
vised him, at the

fast."
same time, "
to take in his sail
and not go too
Wei.don Railroad Taken, August
18, 1864.
While SherRichmond on
more
rein-
idan was conducting a telling campaign against Early in the
Shenandoah Valley, Grant was active before Richmond and

Petersburg.
He
ordered a demonstration against
the south side of the James, August 14th, to prevent
forcements from being sent to Early.
The
threat'r^ning position
less skir-
was maintained for a number of days, with more or

mishing, and some tolerably hard fighting.
Instructions had
been given to prevent anything like a general battle unless there

should be opportunities for a decided success.
This demonstration against Richmond caused Lee
to with-
draw many of
Gen. Warren
his troops
to capture
from Petersburg.
Grant then ordered

a road of great im-
Weldon Railroad,
portance to the enemy, as the avenues for bringing Confederate

supplies to the
army were already being nmch
contracted.
this road
It
was evident that the capture and maintenance of
would
15
226
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
bring about some desperate fighting.
The movement was made

After some heavy fighting
on the morning of August 18th.

the road
was
carried, the
it.
new
position fortified,
and reinforceto dislodge

losses.
ments sent to hold
Lee made repeated attempts
Warren's corps, but without success, and with heavy
The
cost to the
Union army
in the entire
movement
for the
killed,
loss
possession of the
Weldon Railroad was about 4,550 men
wounded, and missing, most of them prisoners ; while Lee's
was some less than half that number.
Ream^s Station, August

recalled
21, 1864.
Hancock, who had been

in
from the north of the James in the demonstration
against Richmond,
the rear of
21, he
moved rapidly toward the Weldon road

Striking
it
Warren.
near Ream's Station, August

road.
commenced tearing up the

it,
After having destroyed
a considerable portion of
he was vigorously attacked by Hill.
When
His
night came, Hancock withdrew from Ream's Station.
loss
was 2,400 (1,700 prisoners) out of 8,000, and

little less.
Hill's
was but
This disaster did not loosen Warren's hold upon the Weldon
Railroad.
He
had. made his position impregnable, and Lee
was
compelled to see one of his important lines of communication

pass from him.
This closed the active operations around Richmond for the

winter.
There were frequent skirmishes among the pickets, but
no serious battle took place between the contending forces until

the following spring.
CHAPTER
XVIII.
8HEKIDAN AND EARL.Y IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY, 1864.

Sigel's
Defeat at ISTewmarket, May
15, 1864.
-Grant's
comprehensive plan of campaign embraced not only the Overland Campaign, Sherman's March to the Sea, and Butler's
movement toward Richmond, but

rected up the
the cooperative
movements
di-
Shenandoah and Kanawha

Sigel,
valleys.
The former
was under Gen.
and the
latter
under Gen. Crook.
Sigel accordingly
moved up
the valley on
May
1,
1864, with
10,000 men, and was met near Newmarket by
a Confederate
army
of equal force under Breckinridge.
Sigel's
army was
de-
feated with a loss of 700 men, and driven back to Cedar creek,
near Strasburg.
Gen. Crook moved from Charlestown, with a force of about

eight thousand men, at the
same time Sigel
left
Winchester;
but by dividing his forces he was compelled to retreat from the
enemy, and missed an opportunity

against him.
to
strike
telling
blow
Gen. Grant
rel levied
Sigel of
command,
and
named
Gen.
Hunter
in his place.
The pressure upon Gen.
Lee's forces led to
the withdrawal of Breckinridge, with the better part of his

forces, for the defense of Riclimond, while
left in
W.
E. Jones was
command
of the remaining forces.

(227)
228

18, 1864.
March on Lynchburg, June

met
at
The
two armies
Piedmont.
Jones was
killed, his
army
routed,
and about
fifteen
hundred prisoners taken, and 3,000 small arms.

to Staunton,
Hunter
advanced
where he
wâs reinforced to
by Crook and
Averill, bringing his
numbers up
to cross the
20,000 men.
Hunter was ordered
Blue Ridge and take Lynch-
burg, the chief city in the western part of Virginia, situated

in a rich
and populous region.

it
It
was
of great importance to
the Confederates, as
had
at that
time extensive manufactories,

rail-
was located on the James river and canal, and in unbroken

road communication with
Richmond and Petersburg on

other.
the one
hand and the farther South on the

a considerable force
relief of the city.
Gen. Lee dispatched

to the
from Richmond under Gen. Early

at
Early arrived
Lynchburg the day before

Hunter's ammunition
the attack
was commenced, June 18th.
ran low, while great numbers were rallying to overwhelm him
he had no choice but to retreat, closely pursued as far as

Salem.
Hunter marched north
into
West Virginia, over an
exhausted and desolated region, living on the country as he went.
The
loss of horses
and the suffering of his men were
great.
He
was compelled
to
make
a circuitous
and harassing movement,
to escape severe punisliment,

rivers,
by way of the Kanawha and Ohio

This took a long
its
and by Parkersburg and Grafton.

his
time,
and rendered
army
of no service until
return.
Early's
er's failure
Movement on Washington, July,
1864.
Hunt-
before Lynchburg, followed by his circuitous march
to return to the contested soil of Virginia, left the
Shenandoah
229
Valley in possession of Early, and Washington open to a possible raid.

all
Early took advantage of
this weakness.
Summoning
the forces ho rmilrl muster, he
marched toward the National
Capital.
Gen.
Lew
Wallace, in
command
of a small force at Baltimore,
moved forward
the
in the face of
overwhelming numbers, and met

to
enemy
at
Monocacy.
While he did not expect
gain
victory, he succeeded in delaying the advance
upon Washington.
directed
Grant,
learning of the gravity of the situation,
Meade
to dispatch
Wright's corps
to the relief of
Washington.
its
The Jîneteenth Corps, arriving

from Louisiana
at Fortress
Monroe, on
way
was
to reinforce the
Army
of the Potomac,
at
directed to Washington.
Both these corps arrived
Washingcity.
ton on the 11th, the day on which Early arrived before the
The
troops in defense of Washington
now numbered
40,000,
re-
while those of Early, reduced to about 15,000 men, beat a

treat.
Gen. Wright pursued feebly through Leesburg and Snickto the
er's
Gap
Shenandoah, where his advance was attacked

loss of 500.
and driven back with a

burg, turned his
ington.
Wright retreated
to Lees-
command
over to Crook, and returned to Wash-
Grant, deceived by advices that Early was returning to Lynch-
burg and Bichmondj ordered the Sixth and

to be returned
jSTineteenth
Corps
by water
to Petersburg, so as to strike a telling
blow against Lee before Early's return.

in
Crook,
who was
left
command
of the depleted forces

to
on the Potomac,
moved
through Harper's Eerry
Winchester, supposing there was
230
THE CIVIL
liini.
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
nothing there to stop
Early had not gone south, hnt was
close at hand, and, falling
upon Crook's
force, drove his
com-
mand
own
pell iiicU to
Martinsburg, with a
less.
loss of
1,200 men, his
loss
being
much
Early was undisputed master of that region.

north, the people of
As he moved
Maryland and sonthern Pennsylvania were
thrown into consternation.
McClausland was sent on a sweeping raid northward.

ing through Carlisle, and entering Chambersburg, he
Pass-
demanded
$100,000 in gold or $500,000 in currency, under penalty of

conflagration.
The money not being

and two-thirds of
it
instantly produced, the
town was
fired,
destroyed.
Avhich
The Sixth and Nineteenth Corps,
had proceeded no
farther south than Georgetown, were recalled
from
their south-
ern destination and sent to Harper's Eerry, where they joined
Crook with part of Hunter's long-expected infantry on the very

day Chambersburg was burned.
delusive pursuit of Early's army.
The whole
force started in a
Sheridan in Command in the Shenandoah, August

18H4.
7,
News
of the disaster to the
Union cause
lead to the ap-
pointment of Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan to operate against

the invading forces.
He
was placed in command of the newly
organized " Middle Department," composed of the late depart-
ments of West Virginia, Washington, and Susquehanna, and

two divisions of cavalry which were sent to him by Grant.
Sheridan's whole force
now numbered
about 30,000 men, and
Early confronted him with about 20,000.
231
Grant informs us that when Sheridan was appointed (August

7,
1864)
to the
were necessary.
new command, but two words of instruction They were, " Go in " and Sheridan wont in.
Sheridan met Early Sept. 13, at the crossing of Opoquan

creek.
The enemy was
strongly posted behind his fortifications,
but his forces were separated, having sent two divisions to

tinsburg for the destruction of the Baltimore
Mar
& Ohio
the
Railroad.
well-planned and vigorous assault
upon
Confederates
loss
drove them in utter rout through Winchester.

in this battle
The Union
3,000
was fully 3,000, while the foe
lost
in pris-
oners alone.
Early
fell
back
to Fisher's Hill, eight
miles south of
Win
Chester, taking post in
what was regarded

Pursuing
closely,
as the very strongest
position in the valley.
Sheridan attacked him

at
two days
quan.
severe,
later,
and gained a more decisive victory than
Ope
His
loss
was
light,
while that of the enemy was morp
1,100
prisoners and 16 guns were taken.
The pursuit
and
was
so sharp that
Early was compelled
to leave the valley
take to the mountains.

ton,
Sheridan pursued him as far as Staun

his return pursuant to the instrnrto
and swept the valley on
tions addressed
by Gen. Grant
Gen. Hunter on August 5th.
Sweeping the Shenandoah Valley, September and October, 1864.
All
the grain and forage not already appropri-
ated to the needs of one or the other of the armies which fre-
quently chased up and
down
the fertile valley, were gathered
up, or, with the barns and mills which held them, consigned to
the torch.
232

follcnvin^
is
The
an extract from the report sent by Gen. Sher-
idan to Gen. Grant:
"Woodstock, Va.,
''Lt.Gni. V. 8. Grant:
Oct.
7,
18649
p. m.
have dpstroyed over 2,000 barns filled with wheat and hay and farming implements, over 70 mills filled with flonr and wheat; have driven in front of the army over 4,000 head of stock, and have killed and issued to the troops not less than 3,000
I
...
sheep.
as well as the
"This destruction embraces the I;uray valley and Little Fort valley, main valley. "A large number of horses have been obtained, a proper estimate of which I cannot now^ make. "Lt. John E. Meigs, my engineering officer, was murdered beyond Harrisonburg, near Dayton. For this atrocious act, all the houses within an area of five miles were burned. "Since I came into the valley from Harper's Ferry, every train, every small party and every straggler has been bushwhacked by the people many of whom have protection papers from commanders who have been
hitherto in that valley. " The people here are getting sick of the war.
Heretofore, they have
been living
in
great abundance.
..."
The excuse
that whatever
for the devastation of the valley
was the certainty

enemy's
was
left there
wonld be used
to feed the
armies and facilitate raids and incursions on the Union posts.

(Jhambersburg.
established a precedent in
to
tlie
burning of
city after
fact, the
They threatened
burn
New York
In
later.
Sheridan's raid through the Shenandoah Valley.

atrocity
was actually attempted a few weeks

city,
Emissaries
set fire
fire
were statipned throughout the

to
who simultaneously
the large hotels wherein they had taken lodgings.

little
Each
was quickly extinguished, after but
damage had been done.
Battt.e of Cki>ar Crkek, October 19, 1S64.
Reinforce-
ments were sent
to Early.
He
advanced down the valley, and

thoroughly oroanizrrl his
Fisher's Hill.
forcôs in thn forpst-soropnorl
233
oamp noar
Shoridnii had boon siiminoiipd to Washington.
Whrn Early
from
his
brcanio aware of his adversary's absence, he de-
cided to attempt to retrieve his shattered fortunes.
Tssning
paths,
camp
at night,
liis
army moved over rngged
climbing up and down steep

with canteens
left in
hills,
over almost impassable ground,

clattei-
camp
lest
they shonld
against their
muskets and make a noise.

fell
Karly suddenly and nnexju-ctedly

in
upon the Union forces
camp
at
Cedar Creek
the
dawn
the
of October 19th.
All Avas amazement

attack
and confusion
in
Union ranks.
the defenses,
'J'he
was
furious.
The enemy swept over
and after a brief but ineffectual resistance SherGen. Wright, who was
in
idan's troops were put to flight.
tem-
porary command, made great effort to stem the ebbing
tide,
and
eventually succeeded in arresting the retreat of most of his men.
Sheridan, having left Washington on the 18th, reached Winchester that night.
The next morning,
as he started to join his
command, ominous sounds
of battle were wafted to his ears,

telling the story
val-
and men came running from the front in panic,

of disaster.
Sending the cavalry
at
Winchester across the
ley to stop the stragglers, he at once hastened to the scene of

action,
and addressed the fugitives
as he
met them:
^'
Face the
other way, boys!
We
are going back to our camps!
We
are
re-
going to lick them

stored.
out of their boots!"
Confidence was
The
flight
was ended.
Intrenchments were erected, and
the
army placed
in position.
furious assault was
made by
At
the Confederates, but they were repulsed by one o'clock.
234
three o'clock the order

tire line
was given
to the
a
Union
troops,
''
The
en-
advance."
On
they went in
determined charge upon
the hitherto exultant foe, driving
them hack over the ground
they had gained, in great disorder and utter rout.
The famished
infantry sank
down
in their recovered quarters to shiver through
the night, as the rations
and cooks that were there in the morn-
ing had long since paid tribute to the enemy, or found shelter
in
Winchester.
The Union
loss
was ahont three thousand

loss
in the donble battle.
The Confederate
was heavier, including 1,500 prisoners,

lost
23 guns (not counting 23 guns

ing,
by the Federals in the mornetc.
and recovered at night), besides small arms, wagons,
This battle praetieally closed the campaign in the Shenandoah Valley.

this.
Several small cavalry skirmishes occurred after
Early's
army was
practically destroyed.
killed,
He
had
lost,
as
Sheridan says, more men
wounded and captured, than

first to last.
he (Sheridan) had commanded from
What
re-
mained of Early's
infantry and a
forces,
with the exception of one division of
little
cavalry,
was sent
to
Eiehmonrl.
After the
withdrawal of the Confederate forces most of the Union troops
were sent
to reinforce the arm}^ of the
Potomac.
This victory, snatched from the jaws of defeat, aifords one of

the rare instances in which an
army thoroughly defeated

man.
in the
morning
is
more thoroughly
victorions in the evening, being resingle
inforced in the
meantime by a
The
battle of
Cedar Creek has been dedicated
to all lovers of
poetry, in the popular poem, " Sheridan's Hide.'' by
Thomas
Buchanan Read.
CHAPTEK
PKACF. COMMISSIONS,
XIX.
T.KF.
AND SURRKNDER OF
Peace Commissions of July, 1864.

forts
Two
open
unRuccrssfiil pftlip
were made during July, 1864,
io
door
to
the
termination of hostilities between the Xorth and the South.
One
of these originated with certain
Confederates,
then
in
Cânada, viz.: Messrs. Clement C. Clay, of Alahaiua;
James P.
Holcombe, of Virginia; and Geo. N. Sanders.
Tliey agreed to
if full
proceed to Washington in the interests of peace,

tion
protec-
were guaranteed them.

to
Horace Greeley was appointed a

in-
commissioner
go to Niagara to meet the gentlemen, and
augurate proceedings which might lead to the restoration of

peace, the
abandonment of
IN'othing,
slavery,
and the preser\ation of the
whole Union.
however, came of the interview.
Another irregular and wholly clandestine negotiation had

been at the same time in progress at Pichmond,
results.
wîth similar
Illinois,
Rev. Col. James F. Jaques, Seventy-third
with
Mr.
J.
R. Gilmore, of
New
York, had, with President Lincoln's

a visit to
knowledge but not with his formal permission, paid
Richmond on
a peace errand.
long, familiar
and earnest
discussion occurred between these
men and
President Davis.
The Confederate
stating that he
chief presented his ultimatum, which, after

to avert war, read as follows:
had tried
it
"
War
came; and now
must go on
until the last
man
of this gener-
(235)
236
THE CIVIL WAR BY CAMPAIGNS. and his children

seize his
ation falls in his tracks

fight
musket and
to
self-
our
battle,
unless
you acknovApdge our right
qoveriimpnt.
We
are not fighting for slarery.
We
we
are fighting
for independence ;
and
that or extermination
will have."
The
knowledge of the fact that the South
was fighting not
only against the abolition of slavery but against the Union, was
worth a great deal
to the
Union cause
in the N"orth.
Factions
this
hitherto opposed to the continuation of the
war were by
proclamation rallied to the support of a vigorous prosecution

of
war measures.
Hampton Roads Peace Commission, February,

ISTegotiations for the termination of hostilities
foot, in
1865.
set
were again
on
February, 1865.
Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-Presi-
dent of the Confederate States;

Secretary of
ator
John A. Campbell, Assistant

T. Hunter, a Confederate Sento pass Grant's lines before
War; and Robert M.
from Virginia, were permitted
Petersburg, and proceeded to Fortress Monroe.
They were met

But
as the com-
by Secretary Seward and President Lincoln.
missioners were not authorized to concede the reunion of the

States,
and
as the President
would not
treat on
any other
basis,
the meeting
was of short duration, and the parties separated
without accomplishing anything.
The Confederate Gloom and

the departure of the Peace
tive quiet.
Despair.
The winter
after
Commission was spent
in compara-
It
was one of gloom and despair
to the Confederates
as they beheld their

ejBfort to
own
numbers diminish in spite of every
increase them, and witnessed their adversaries tighten-

iiig tlieir
237
Their deser-
hold, wliicli would inevitably crush them.
tions
were nnineruns, not only among" those who were with Lee
At
around Richmond, but throughout the whole Confederacy.

the eleventh
hour they attempted
to recruit their depleted ranklit
by freeing and arming such slaves only as were deemed

military service.
Tliey had already conscripted
fur
all able-budie<l
men between
calling
the ages of eighteen and turty-five.
Now
they
passed a law conscripting the boys from fourteen
to eighteen,
them junior
reserves,
and the men from
forty-five to
sixty, calling
them senior reserves.*
South of Lee was Sherman, moving with unimpeded progress.
West
of
him was Stoneman's cavalry
division,
and Thomas with

ISTurth of
his victorious
army which had overwhelmed Hood.
him was Sheridan with 10,000 cavalry

to destroy the
at Winchester, ready
remnant
of Early's force.
And
in his front stood

to
Gen. Grant with a force outnumbering his two ready to lock him in the embrace of death.
one,
and
of
The number
Confederate desertions indicated that they had lost hope and
had become despondent.
Many
in the
South were making apfind
plication to be sent ISTorth,

until
where they might
employment
the
war was
over,
when they
would return to their
Southern homes.
Sheridan Opens the Campaign, March, 1865.
Setting
tliey
out from Winchester un the 27th of February, Sheridan began
*Gen. Butler, in alluding to their conscription, remarked that were thus " robbing tlie cradle and the grave."
288
a magnificent cavalry raid, aimed at
Lynchburg and the enemy's

left
communications
generally*.
His instructions from Grant
him
the liberty of joining
Sherman
to the south, or uniting
with the
ing
Army
of the Potomac, as conditions might arise.

a force of 10,000
at the
Pass-
down through Staunton with

fell
mounted
men, on March 2d he
upon Early
head of some 2,500
men
intrenched at Waynesboro.
His force was almost instantly

Tn
fact,
routed,
left of
and 1,600 prisoners taken.
there
was
little
Early's force excepting himself, who, perceiving the drift
of the battle, absented himself, and found refuge in
some of the
last ap-
neighboring houses or in the woods.

peai-ance in public
life.
This was Early's
Lynchburg had taken

ments.
so as to
the warning, and received reinforce-
While
the continuous spring rains flooded the streams

trains,
make them unfordable with pontoon

James
river canal,
Sheridan
destroyed the
and tore up the Lynchburg
Railroad as far west as Amherst Court House.

negroes had joined his
Some 2,000
command,
assisting considerably in the

\V(jrk
tearing-up of the railroad and in the

canal.
of destroying the
Passing through Columbia, he reached White House on

;
March 19 and
and reported
to
after resting here, he passed
down
to the
James,
Gen. Grant for orders before Petersburg on the
27th, in time to take part in the reduction of the Confederate

capital.
Lkk's Attack upon Fort Stedman,
March
25,
1865.
Foreseeing the speedy downfall of the Confederate cause, unless

a telling blow should be struck against
some part of the
encir-
239
cling armies, and an avenue of escape opened, Lee resolved to
anticipate Grant's initiative
movement by an
attack upon the
Union
lines.
This attack was made upon Fort Stedman, nearly
east of Petersburg,
where
its
success
would have probably cut
Grant's
army
in two, and opened a door for a successful with-
drawal of the Confederate army southward by the most direct

route, to unite
with Johnstou, in an endeavor tu overpower
Sherman.
The
assault
was made by Gen. John B. Gordon, early on the

contig-
morning of March 25th, and Fort Stedman with three

uous batteries was taken by surprise.
lêe
The 20,000 men whom

had failed
to
had massed in the rear
as support
respond
promptly, for some cause, and the forts were promptly retaken,
and
all
the Confederate troops
who
entered them, about 4,000

short, it
in number, were taken prisoners.
In
was the " Mine

Aside
Gen.
Explosion " repeated, with points of disaster reversed.
from prisoners, the
loss to
each side was about 2,500.
Meade, perceiving the depleted ranks of the enemy in
his front,
in a spirited attack captured the strongly intrenched picket line.
Lee thus, instead of freeing himself from Grant's grip, had

only tightened
it
by his
assault.
Five Fokks, April

for a final campaign,
1,
1865.
Grant prepared arrangements

the
which resulted in the capture of Lee's
army.
left
The determined advance was commenced by
Union
on the 29th of ^larch.
To
the flanking of the enemy's right

pre-
was now imposed the additional task of intercepting and

cluding Lee's withdrawal to Aôrth Carolina.
Hence, the
strat-
240
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
left
egj of making a sinmltaiieoiis attack upon the right and

flanks of the
enemy was abandoned, and
three divisions of the

of the
Army of the James were withdraAvn from the bank

river,
James
where they had
so long
menaced Richmond, and were

some eight thousand men
at
brought over
to join the troops facing Petersburg.
Gen. Lee, alive
to his peril, left
under Longstreet
to protect the
works
Richmond, and
hastily
to the
withdrew the
rest of his infantry
through rain and mire,
support of his endangered right.
Gen. Sheridan, in
command
of the cavalry, held the extreme
Union
left,
near Five Forks.
Gen. Warren was ordered to
support the cavalry, and placed under Sheridan's command.
Sheridan succeeded
planned
to
in
advancing up
to a point
from which he
make an
assault
upon Five Forks by the middle of
the afternoon of April 1st.

troops.
officer to
Warren was slow
in
moving
his
Sheridan sent messenger after messenger, directing that

report to him.
Finally he went himself in search of
him, but could not find him.

relieving Wai'ren of the
Sheridan then issued an order

placing Gen. Griffin in
command and
charge of his corps.

assault
The
troops were then brought up, and the
was made
in brilliant order, completely

in great
demolishing the
enemy's right, and forcing him

field.
disorder
from
the
About four thousand
prisoners,
many
small arms and
some
artillery fell into Sheridan's hands, while he lost during
the day abont one thousand men.
Grant says:
place.
"Here
a desperate hand-to-hand conflict took

close to fire, but used
The men of the two sides were too

their g\m% as clubs.
ful.
.
241
Lee's losses irmst have been fear-
In one place a tree eighteen inches in diameter was cut

niusket-balls.
down by
very
All the trees between the lines were
much
cut to pieces
by the
artillery
and musketry.
fighting ceased.
It
was
three o'clock in the
morning before the
Some
of our troops liad been under fire twenty hours."
Battle of Petersburg, and Abandonment of Kichmond.

Grant ordered the guns opened upon the works of Petersburg
from right
upon
tlie
to left,
even though darkness
liad
already fallen
scene.
The
lurid light and the roaring sound pro-
claimed the signal victory just achieved, and predicted more

decisive triumphs near at hand.
The next morning (Sunday,

Lee
April 2d) the outer works of Petersburg were carried.
made
frantic efforts to recover his lost ground, but

loss.
was repulsed
a Confed-
with lieavy
erate battle,
Gen. A. P.
ITill,
the hero of
many
was mortally wounded while reconnoitering during

still
the day.
Though Petersburg was

it
in his possession, Lee

losses
saw he could not hold

10,000 men.
much
longer.
His
had exceeded
To
hold out any longer was to insure the capture
or destruction of his entire army.
At 10:30 A.M. he telegraphed
to Jefferson
Davis in Kich-
mond
*'
these words:
lines are
My
broken in three places.
Richmond must
be
evacuated this evening."
The message found Mr. Davis,

was handed him amid awful
ately
at 11 a. m., in church.
It
silence.
He
read
it,
and immedi-
went quietly and soberly out
never,
never to return as
16
'242

ITot a
President of the Confederacy.
word was spoken; but the
whole assemblage doom.
feJt
that the missive contained words of
The news
of the
impending
crisis soon
passed from lip to
lip.
The calm and peaceful Sabbath day was soon changed

of clamor and excitement.
streets
into one
" Suddenly, as if by magic, the
became
filled
by men, walking as though for a wager, and
behind them excited negroes with trunks and luggage of every

description."
erate
Hundreds
of thousands of dollars of Confed-
money were
destroyed.
street,
Hundreds
of barrels of liquor
in,
were rolled into the

streets
and the ends knocked
flooding the
with the fiery liquid.
Gen. Ewell ordered the four prin
cipal tobacco warehouses to be fired.
The flames spread
to other
parts of the city. Pollard vividly depicts the scene that followed,
thus
"Morning broke upon a scene such as those who witnessed it can never forget. The roar of an immense conflagration sounded in their ears tongues of flame leaped from street to street and in this baleful glare were to be seen, as of demons, the figures of busy plunderers, moving, pushing, rioting, through the black smoke, and into the open street, bearing away every conceivable sort of plunder. "The scene at the Commissary depot, at the head of the dock, beggared description. Hundreds of government wagons were loaded with bacon, flour, and whisky, and driven off in hot haste to join the retreating army. Thronging about the depot were hundreds of men, women and children, black and white, provided with capacious bags, baskets, tubs, buckets, tin pans, and aprons; cursing, pushing, and crowding; awaiting the throwing open of the doors and the order for eacih to help
;
;
himself.
"About sunrise the doors were opened to the populace, and a rush that almost seemed to carry the building off of its foundations was made, and hundreds of thousands of pounds of bacon, flour, etc., were
soon swept away by the clamorous crowd."
243
On Monday morning
resisted by
the Union troops occnpicd the city, un-
any
force.
The
fire ^vas
extinguished as soon as
possible, but not until it
had burned the very heart of Richmond.
The
loss
must
luive
been millions, as fully one-third of the city
was consumed.
unharmed.
Libby Prison and Castle Thunder remained
About one tliousand prisoners were taken, besides 5,000

and wounded who were
left in the liospitals.
sick
Petersburg was of course abandoned
simidtaneously with
attended
the
Richmond.
ISTo
explosions nor
this city.
conflagrations
it
abandonment of
So noiselessly was
done, that the
Union pickets within a stone's-throw knew not

was making the move.
that the
enemy
The Retkeat of
a junction
witli
Lee.
Lee hoped
to
be able to escape, form
(len.
flohnston,
and crush Sherman's army
before reinforcements could arrive.
The once formidable Army

was concentrated
of Virginia,
now reduced by
desertions and heavy losses, mainly in prisoners, to 35,000 men,

at
(
Uiesterfield (ôurt
House, and then moved
rapidly westward to
Amelia (\)urt House, where Lee expected
supplies which he had previously ordered to that place for his
famishing army.
They were destined
to
meet with disappointto
ment
here, as
an order from Kichmond summoned the train
that city to aid in bringing
away
the fugitives; and
it
was taken
Gen.
without unloading the supplies intended for the army.
Grant was soon
in pursuit of the retreating Confederate
army.
Sheridan's cavalry, striving to head
off the flight of the fugitives,
'244

forces.
formed the van of the pursuing
The
rest of Grant's
army followed
in close pursuit,
it,
moving
in parallel lines with
Lee's aruiy to the south of
attacking vigorously whenever any
portion
of the hostile forces
came within
fighting distance.
Some
of these engagements were sharply contested, and, as the
men
fought without breastworks, the losses were heavy.

to
The
seventy miles from Richmond

of blood.
Appomattox was
at
a long trail
There were
collisions
Jetersville,
Deatonsville,
Deep
creek, Sailor's creek, Paine's Crossroads,
aud Fanuvllle.
trib-
The most important of these was at Sailor's creek, a small

utary of the Appomattox running northward into
ter,
it,
where Cuslines,
supported by Crook, broke through the Confedei-ate
capturing 400 wagons, 16 guns, and many prisoners.

Ewell's corps, following the train, were thus cut
rest of Lee's
oti'
from the
army, and were held in check until the arrival of

a deadly fire
the
Union Sixth Corps, when
was opened upon
them.
Ewell's veterans, thus inclosed between the cavalry and
the Sixth Corps, without a chance of escape, threw
down
their
arms and surrendered.

ers,
Seven thousand men were made prison-
amtjng
whom
were Ewell himself and four other generals.
Surrender of Lee, at Appomattox Court House, April

9,
1865.
The remainder of the army continued

the 7th,
its
retreat dur-
ing the night of the 6th, and reached
Farm vi lie
two days'
early on the
rations,
morning of
where they
(btained
and
stopped to rest and prepare their food.
The approach
of the
Federal troops, near noon, again set the Confederates in

in a vain
motion
endeavor
to escape the inevitable fate
awaiting them.

Arrivinf): at A])pninfittox Cnjirt Ilonso, April Otli, a
t.ho
245
wook
froiu
day thoy had
set
out
t'rniri
Riclniintid, thoy
fmnid
Slici'idan*.-
disinoiintod (\i\alrv arross tlioir paths, and
tho.
four trains of
supplies whirh they had exprctcd had hcen
(a))t,urod.
The Army
of
Virginia,
unaware of
tlio
prosonro
of
tho
Fodoral infanti'y, oxpocting to break through the eohnnn of cavalry

\\Jii(di
blocked
its
way, made
its
last eharê.
The
re-
moval of SlieiMuan's cavalry by his orders, after a

ment,
disclrised
shai'p enciâge-
to the astonished
CVmfederates a solid line oi
bhie-coated infantry and glittering steel as i^heridan and his
troops passed hurriedly around the enemy's
left,
prejiared to
into
charge the confused, reeling masses.
Hope was changed
despair, and the Confederate general, yielding to the fiat of

fate, sent a
white
flag
waving
to
Gen. Custer.
Hostilities were
suspended, with the assurance that negotiations for the surrender of the ('OntVderate
erals
army
Avere then
pending between Gen-
Grant and Lee.

first
Grant had
demanded Lee's surrender on

to consider
the afternoon
of the 7th, but

then.
Lee refused
any terms of surrender
Several notes had been interchanged by them, and on the
9th the two connnanders met in the house of Mr.

the surrender of the Confederate
McLean,
wlicre
army
took place.
Morale of the Armies.

McDowell
Kichmond,
at
Of
the proud
army which defeated
Bull Kun, and drove McClellan from before
suffered a backset at Antietam, shattered Burnside's
hosts at Fredericksburg,
ville,
trinmphed over Hooker
at Chancellorsat Gettysburg,
valiantly though unsuccessfully
met Meade
246
THE CIVIL WAR

baffled
(
T?Y
CAMPAIGNS.
and
land
Grant's bounteous resources for a time in the " Over-
'amj-jaign " in the Wilderness, at Spottsjlvania,
on the
North Anna, at Cold Harbor, and before Petersburg and Richmond, but a mere wreck remained on the day of the
renrler.
final snr-
After the
fall of
Richmond
the morale of the National
troops had greatly improved, while that of the Confederate
was more than correspondingly depressed.
Each day witnessed

memorable
re-
the depletion of the Confederate ranks on this

treat.
only 28,1356
When Lee men
finally
left to
surrendered at Appomattox, there were

be paroled.
Of
this
number not more
than 10,000 were able to carry their arms on this hopeless and
almost foodless
flight.
Nineteen thousand one hundred and
thirty-two Confederates Avere captured from March 29th up to

the date of the surrender at Appomattox, which does not include
the great
number
of killed,
wounded and missing during
the
series of conflicts
flight of the foe.
which marked the headlong and disastrous
The number
at
of cannon taken between these

at 689.
two dates, including those
Appomattox, was recorded
Grant's Generous Terms.
In accordance with
;
the terms
of surrender, the officers were required to give their individual

])H
roles not
again to take up arms against the Government of
the
United States until properly exchanged
and each company
and regimental commander signed a

their
to
like parole for the
men
of
commands.
The arms,
artillery
and public property were

officers.
be packed, stacked, and turned over to the proper
Officers
were permitted
to retain their side-arms.

it
Each
soldier
claiming a horse was permitted to " take
home,
to be used for
TFTE
ARMY OF THE
PriTOMAO.
247
fpd bv
plowing."
The starving ronfodonitos woro immprliately

Each
officer
their captors.
and man was permitted
to retnrn to
his liome, not to he distnrbed by the Tnitod States anthority so
long as
lie
observed the parole and the hiws in force where he
might
reside.
The exceeding generosity
of these terms to an
its ad versa
i-y,
army which
a
had fonght so stnbbornly against

to
was
snrprise
many
^vllo
remembered the
'^
nnconditional snn-ender " at
Fort Donelsoii and at Vicksbnrg. by a desire

to
Grant's behavior was marked
spare the feelings of his great opponent.
There
was no
theatrical display.
His troops were not paraded with
banners flying and bands i)laying.
The humiliated and defeated
troops were not marched before the lines of their captors to

stack arms.
ITe did not
demand
Lee's sword, as was cnstomary
on snch occasions.
Cheering, the firing of salutes, and other
demonstrations of exultation over the victory, were promptly

stopped.
Even
Pollard, the Southern historian, in
^'
The Lost Cause,"
pays a high tribute of respect to Grant on this occasion, in

these words:
"Indeed, this Fedpral commander, in the closing scenes of the conbehaved with a magnanimity and decorum that must ever be remembered to his credit, even by those who disputed his reputation in other respects, and denied his claims to great generalship. He had with remarkable facility accorded honorable and liberal terms to a vanquished army. He did nothing to dramatize the surrender; he made no triumphal entry into Kichmond he avoided all those displays so dear to the Northern heart; he spared everything that might wound the feelings or imply the humiliation of a vanquished foe. There were no no shows: he received the surindecent exultations; no sensations
test,
;
'
'
248
THE CIVIL
WAR
BY CAMPAIGNS.
render of his adversary with every courteous recognition due an honorable enemy, and conducted the closing scenes with as much simplicity as possible."
President Lincoln arrived at City Point, March 24th, and
was
in constant
communication with Grant from that date until
the surrender of the Confederate army.
He was
mainly at City
Point, but, accompanied by Admiral Porter, he went to Gen.

Weitzel's headquarters, in the house so recently and suddenly
abandoned by Jefferson Davis.
He was
recognized, and the

bless their
crowd of blacks became
so great to
welcome and
emanfor
cipator, that a military force
had
to be called to clear a
way
him through
days
later,
the streets.
He
]\Irs.
repeated his visit to
Richmond two
attended by
Lincohi, Vice-President Johnson,
and several United States Senators.
He
returned to Washington
on the day of Lee's surrender, which was considered the close of

the war.
As soon
as Tree's surrender
became known. Secretary Stanton
telegraphed an order to the lieadquarters of every
army and
de-
partment, and to every fort and arsenal in the United States, to

fire
a salute of 200 guns in celebration of the event.

^'
:
To Grant
vic-
he dispatclied
Thanks be
to
Almighty God for the great
tory with which
He
has this day crowned you and the gallant
armies under your command.
The
tlianks of this department,
and of the Government, and of the people of the United States

their reverence
to
and honor have been deserved

officers
will be rendered
you and the brave and gallant

for
all
and soldiers of your
army
time."
CHAPTER XX.
OUTSKIUT MOVKMENTS.
The
troops.
Civil
War
lasted four joars.
During
tins
time 2,265
engagements took place between the Union and Confederate

These
conflicts
ranged in importance from the
insigniti-
cant raid, skirmish, or fight, to the decisive battle of Gettysburg,

in which the loss of life was Hp})alliiig.
The average number
of
engagements for each week from the beginning

hostilities
to the close of
was
eleven.
The
total
number
of battles in which the or missing, was
Union
330.
loss
was 100 or more in
killed,
wounded
In the preceding chapters the more important movements,

battles,
and operations of the main armies, have been described.
Many
outskirt
movements were conducted.
Only the more im-
portant can receive even a passing notice, to bring them within

the compass of this volume.
Gen. Banks, while in
command
of
New
Orleans, conceived
river,
the plan of directing an expedition
up the Eed
1864.
His
of
objects were, the capture of Shreveport
and the dispersion

a
Kirby Smith's army.

fleet
To
was
this end,
Admiral Porter, with
strong
of ironclads,
to
embark 10,000 men from SherJ.
man's old army at Vicksburg, under Gen. A.
Smith, and
move up
the river.
Banks was
at
to
march overland with 15,000

Gen. Steele was
men, and meet Smith's force
Alexandria.
(249)
250
to

Little
march from
Rock
to
Rhreveport with the bulk of his
Arkansas troops.
Fort DeRnssy was captured ^larch 14th; Alexanrlria
the 16th witliont a struggle.
fell
on
The Union forces pushed

Avith
their
way
their
to
Sabine Crossroads,
occasional skirmishes,
when
advance Avas suddenly attacked and precipitately routed

less
by Confederate forces numbering not
than 20,000 men,

loss
under Kirby Smith and Dick Taylor.

2,000.
The Federal
was
The Union
troops retreated to Pleasant Uil], where
they Avere reinforced.
Here
the
enemy
fiercely attacked
them
next day, April 9th, but he was defeated and driven from the
held.
In the Avhole campaigTi the Union

;
loss in killed,
wounded
and missing was 5,000

Gen. Banks decided
conduct a retreat.
the Confederate loss Avas
less.
to give
up
the expedition, and began to or
The Shreveport movement

It
Red
river ex-
pedition Avas a failure. with

its
had
all
the promise of success, and

if
resources and available forces would have succeeded
properly managed.
On
his
way back
after the victory of Pleas-
ant Hill, a sharp attack on Banks's rear at

in the repulse of the
Cane
river resulted
enemy.
riAêr,
The
fleet
had proceeded up the

its
but the reverse of Sabine

river, Avhen low, Avould
Crossroads compelled
return.
The
The
not float the larger vessels.

falling.
The high
Avater of spring Avas fast

fleet Avas
The
vessels ran aground.
much annoyed
by the Confederate sharj^shooters and batteries along the shores.

'J'he
attacking foe Avas driven

loss.
away from
were
the river-banks with
some
The grounded
vessels
set afloat
with considera-
OUTSKIRT MOVEMENTS.
hlf^
251
that vosspIs could
rlifficnlty.
Thr
tlio
river
bad l)ppomo so low

It
iiot
pass over
falls
bo,
bolow Aloxandria.
dostrovorl.
Côl.
sccinrd us if-tho
ontiro floot would

fertile brain,
Hailoy, an onînorr of
planned the const rnet ion of dams, by means of

falls
which the passage over the
was made
in safety.
retreat,
Alexandria was burned by accident on the
but the
enemy naturally claimed

\\
that the city
was willfully destroyed
ith
a desire for revenge.
AbfMit the time of Banks's advance to xMexanrlria, Cien. Steele

left Little
Rock, Arkansas,
Avith
an army
to cooperate in the
Red
the
his
river expedition.
Banks's disaster had greatly emboldened

Steele's
enemy, and endangered
army.
large
muuber
of
supply-wagons were taken.
When
men
he learned of Banks's
retreat, Steele
began his backward movement.

a
At Marks Mills
the
enemy took
number
of his
prisoners.
When
met a
at Jen-
kins's Ferry,
on the Saline
river, a large force
under Kirby
repulse.
Smith attacked the Union
forces, April 30, but
Steele, after having suffered severely, finally reached Little
Rock.
A
diate
Union expedition,
was sent
to
fitted
out at South Carolina by Cron.

It
(xillmore,
reclaim Florida.
was under the immelie advanced to
command
of Gen.
Truman Seymore.
enemy much
Jacksonville, Fla., with 600 men, and then to Olustec, where
he met a disastrous defeat by an

bers to his own.
inferior in
num-
This wâs February 20, 1864.
In a short time
both opposing forces were called to participate in the absorbing

events around Richmond.
252
THE CIVIL WAR RY CAMPAIGNS.

attempt,
An
was marie
in the early part of l\farch, 1864,
by
Gen. Jndson Kilpatrick at the head of a cavalry force, to penetrate the defenses at
Richmond and
C'ol.
Jiberate the
Union prisoners
confined in Libby prison.
Ulrich Dahlgren was killed.
Much damage was
inflicted
npon the enemy's railroads and
bridges, but the attempt to enter
Richmond
failed.
An
expedition of 4,000
men
against Sabine Pass, La., in
September, 1863, under Gen.

boats from Farragut's
Wm.
B. Franklin, aided by gun-
fleet, failed.
Two
gunboats were disabled
and captured by the enemy.

to
The
rest of the exjêdition returned
New Orleans. An effort on the
part of the Confederates to recover Fort
Donelson, early in February, 1863, was unsuccessful.
In April, 1863, Col. Streight with about 1,600 men

on a raid into northern Georgia.
to
set out
At Cedar Bluff he was forced

of a body of cavalry.
surrender to Gen. Forrest in
command
Many
of the outskirt
'^
movements have been enumerated under

in Missouri,'' " Coast Operations," or in
the chapters on
War
connection with the main campaigns.
Many
others might be
alluded to here, but the students of history in search of details

of the
minor events are referred
to the
numerous works
preparcLJ
on a more comprehensive plan than this one.
CHAPTEK
XXT.
FINANCIAL MEASURES TO PKOVIDE KKVENUE EOK THE Civile WAR.

Empty Treasury at the
During President Buclianan's
Opentncj of the Civji. War.
aJiiiiiiistraliou, in
time of
peac.-e,
the I'esuiirces of the (iovernment wei'e imt siitticient tu
iiiet4
the
expenditures.
The National debt

1st,
increased mure than $;j(;,UUU,1st,
UOO from July

tliurized
re(*eipts,
1857, to July
of Treasury
1800.
to
('oiigress
had anin
the
issue
notes
it
meet the
the
deficit
and
on
February
Sth
authorized
issue
of
$25,000,000 of bonds, bearing interest at C
pei* cent.,
payable
within not less than ten nor more than twenty years.
The
Sec-
retary of the Treasury was able to place only $18,-1:15,000 of
bonds, and this at an average discount of 10.97 per cent.
When
Lincoln became President he found an empty treasury,
the credit of the Nâtion gone, and a public debt
amounting
to
to
about $80,000,000, with daily revenues insutticient

expenditures.
closed
its
meet the
i\mong the
final
acts
of the (Congress
which
pro-
session on the 4th of
March, 1861, was one which
vided for a loan of $10,000,000 in bonds, or the issue of a like
sum
in
Tieasury
notes.
The
Prc^sident
was empowered
to issue
Treasury notes for any part of loans previously authorized but

not obtained.
Under
this
statute,
notes
were issued
to
the
amount
of $12,896,o50, payable in sixty days after date, and

(253)
254

jêars.
$22,468,100, payable in two

to obtain revenue, aside
This was the

to
initial step
from regular incomes,
meet the
ex-
penditures of the Government, which soon became enormons.
Power to Raise Money.

the power: (1) "
excises''; (2)
'^
The Constitution
taxes
gives Congress
To
levy and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and

the credit of the United
the several States ac-
To borrow money on
States ";
()!)
''
To apportion
among
cording to their population."
The
chief dependence of the United States for revenue had
always been upon customs.
The expenses
of the (jrovcrnment
to
its
during the years 18615 and 1864 amounted

entire expenditures of the
more than the

foundation up
Government from
to the time of the opening of the (-ivil
War.
This enormous
financial drain taxed the resources of the nation,

a
and called for
more varied and comprehensive system of revenue than had

This system was
yet been inaugurated in our financial system.
not the product of a single act of legislation, but of a series of

acts
which grew out of pressing needs of the hour,
to
meet the
expenditures of the Government and for the preservation of

Tâtional credit.
It included six sources of revenue,
namely:
Treasury
Customs
notes,
duties, internal revenue, non-interest-bearing

notes,
interest-bearing Treasury
bond
issues,
and the
^N'ational
banking system.
Customs Duties.
tariff
The
April
Morrilt. Tariff.
1st,
The
high
Morrill
went into
effect
1861.
It
was
tariff,
and
was
a radical
change in policy from the
tariff
laws of 1846 and
FINANCIAL MEASURES.
1857, which were the lowest ever in force.
tariff,
255
Under
the IVfon-ill
imposts which liad averaged ahoiit 19 per cent, on dutiahle
articles
and 15 per
cent,
on the
total imports,
were changed
to
36 per cent, on dntialde articles and to 28 per cent, on total imports.
At
the special session of Congress, called hy Pi*(^sid<Mit

4,
Lincoln July
1861, the schednle of dntiahle articles was

It
extended, and the rates increased.

5th, 1861.
tea, coffee
hecame a law Angnst

the duties on
On December
24, as a
war measure,
and sugar were increased, and the duties were again
increased by the tariff act of July 14, 1862.
Non-Interest-Bearing Treasury Notes.

clude the
''
These notes
'^
in-
old
''
demand
notes," the
'^
legal tenders " or " green-
backs," the
notes."
fractional currency,"
and the
National bank
"
Legal Tenders " or

'^
^'
Greenbacks." The law
authoriz-
ing the issue of

25, 1862.
legal-tender " Treasury notes passed February
It provided for the issue of
$150,000,000 in these
notes, to be " lawful
money and
legal tender in
payment
of all
debts, public
and private, except duties on imports and
interest
on bonds and notes of the United States."

opposition to the legal-tender feature of the
finally agreed
bill
There was nuich

bill,
but
it
was
upon on the ground of extreme
necessity.
The
provided for the exchange of these notes for
six-pcr-c^nt.
bonds, redeemable at the pleasure of the United Stat*^s after

five years.
This provision was repealed the next year.
The
smallest note issued under this act was five dollars, but in a
256
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
later act the limit
was reduced
to be issued
to one-dollar notes.
The
total
amonnt authorized
was
$-1:50,000,000.
These notes depreciated in value until July, 1864, when they

wei-e
worth only 35 cents on the
dollar.
They again
rose in
value, but fluctuated
from time
to
time until the passage of the
specie-resumption act of January, 1875, which provided that

the legal-tender notes should be redeemed in coin after
1,
January
1879.
After the passage of this act they rose to face value,
beeanse they were interchangeable for gold.
The
act of
1878
required that these notes, when redeemed, should be reissued.
There were $346,081,010 of the legal tenders or greenbacks (a
name
given them from the green color on their backs) in use,
Oct. 1, 1897.
Some
discussion has been going on relative to

notes.
the retir(Miient of these
President McKinley, in his
message
to
Congress in December, 1897, recommended that
these notes
when once redeemed should
not be reissued without
the receipt of gold for them.
Fractional Currency.
1861, the evident fact
The
issue
of
demand
notes
in
tliat
Congress must continue to issue
paper money, and the vast expenditures of the Government

with but a small amount of coin in the country (estimated then
at
$210,000,000), led the State banks

Tlie
to
suspend specie payto a
ment, Dec. 30, 1861.

similar financial policy.
circulation.
Government was soon forced
All gold and silver disappeared from
The
3, 5, 10,
25 and 50 cents silver-pieces, which
had been employed as change, were no longer to be found in use.
When
these passed out of circulation, the people
were
left with-
FINANCIAL MEASURES.
out any denominations less than the dollar
bill.
257
No
in
chanfjo
could be found anywhere.

paralyzed.
Some kinds
of business were almost
N'ewspapers, car fare,
etc.,
were paid
jxtstage
stamps and " token " pieces of copper and brass

cent-pieces.
tliat ])ass!'d as
Fractional notes were issued by private firms, and various

expedients were resorted to for the payment of small debts.
act
An
was passed July

in
1,
1802, for the use of
pnstaii,e
and other
Assistant
Statt^s
stamps
payment of fractional parts
of a dollar.
The
Treasurer made these stamps exchangeable for United

.notes, in
sums of not
less
than
five dollars.
Tn
in
]\Iarch, 1S0'>,
$50,000,000 of fractional currency was issued,

of 5, 10, 25,
denominations
by the
Treas-
and 50-cent
as old
bills.
These notes
wert^ i-eissued
Government
ury.
and worn notes were
n^turntîl to the
Since the restoration of fractional silver
to the
channels of
is
commerce, the
5,
10, 25, and 5()-cent ])a]ier note
as great a
novelty as the silver chanoe was during- the war.

T)E:NrAND IN'oTEs.
One
of the provisions of the act of July
17, 18G1, authorized the issue of $50,000,000 in notes of not less
than ten dollars nor of more than
fifty,
beai-ing interest at a
rate of 8.36 per cent., payable in one year; or they were p.\y\-
BLE ON DEMAND wiTnoUT INTEREST.

for coin, or to be used
salaries or other dues,
Tlicv Were to be exchangc^l

in the jiayment of
by the Government
and were caUeil demand notes because
thev were redeenuible in gold on the

ing them.
demand
of the person hold-
17
i258
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
''
Internai. Revenue.
On
''
the first of July, 1862, the bill
to
provide internal revenue to support the Government and to pay

interest
on the public debt
was signed by the President.
It
was one of the most complete systems of taxation ever devised

by any government.
were heavily taxed.
3 per cent.
Spirituous and malt liquors and tobacco
Manufactures of various kinds were taxed
Banks, insurance, railroads and telegraph comall
panies,
and in fact
other corporations had to pay tribute.
The butcher paid 30

hog,
cents for every beef, 10 cents for every
and
5 cents for every sheep slaughtered.
Carriages, billiard
all
tables, yachts, gold and silver ware, and
other articles of
luxury were taxed.
Every profession and
calling, except the
ministry of religion, was included. Almost everything a person

ate,
drank, wore, bought, sold, or owned, was taxed.
So com-
prehensive was the law that thirty printed pages of royal octavo
and more than 20,000 words were used
to express the provisions.
In 1861 a
bill passed,
levying a direct tax of $20,000,000 to
be apportioned
among
the
the States, of which

States
sum $12,000,000
expense
was assigned
Union.
to
which did not secede from the

cent, for the
Each
State
was allowed 15 per
of collecting her quota.
All the loyal States and Territories

tax.
except Delaware and Colorado assumed the payment of the
The
income
bill
of 1861, levying a direct tax, provided also for an
tax,
the first ever levied by our general Grovernment.

cent, for residents
The tax was 3 per

ers
and 5 per
cent, for foreign-
on the excess of income over $800.
Before this act wTiit into

1,
effect it
was repealed by the
act of
July
1862, which placed a
FINANCIAL MEASURES.
259
tax of 3 per cent, on the excess of $G00 up to $10,000, and a tax

of 5 per cent, on the excess of $10,000.
in 1808.
'I'lie
law went into
effect
[March
3cl,
1805, the law was

iii(M)incs
aiiicii(l(Ml
so as to place
beingin-
a five-per-cent. tax
on
np
to
$5,000
(ex<'iipti<n
left at $<JOO),ancl a ten-per-cent. tax
on the excess of $5,000
come.
In March, 1867, the exemption was raised
to
$1,000, and a
uniform rate of
and 10 per
5 per cent,
rates.
was substituted
yeai's
fur the 5 p(M- cent,
cent,
Three
later the exeinjjtinii

]-ate
of
$1,000 was increased

per cent.
to $2,000,
and the
was reduced
to
2h
This law was passed
to continue in efl'ect for in 1871,
one year.
The
last levy
under the law was
and the
last tax
was
collected in 1874.
The income
and the
total
tax collected in the year ISGl was $20,294,733,

collected
amount
from 1863
to
ls74 inclusive was
$346,908,740.
Issuing Boxds.
Bonds are written promises by the Governto the holder, at the
ment
to
pay a specified sum of money
end
of a certain period of time, with interest at a givên rate, payable
semi-annually or quarterly.
Government bonds
are prepared
and then sold under certain regulations, at the best rates the
Government can command. Bonds have been

since
issue
its
issued
from time
to
time by
tlie
it
Government
necessary to
formation, but the Civil Wai*

in vast sums.
etc.
made
them
They
w(M-e in
billion
denominations of $50,
one Imndrcd and nine
1st,
$100, $500, $1,000,
One
million dollars' worth of bonds were issued between July
260
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
1861, and August 31, 1865 (when our debt was greatest), and
the
money was used

^^
for
war purposes.
Most of the bonds issued
were known as
issue of 10-40s,
5-20s."
An
act
was passed authorizing the
and other denominations; but these were not
popuhir, and comparatively few were taken.
I^s^terest-Bearixg Treasury Xotes.
These
notes passed
under
vari<jus
names, depending upon the rate of interest and

they were issued.
Secretary Chase, making a
^'
the time
f(U" wliicli
summary
were paid
dates, in
of the Treasury operations in 1861, says:

to creditors, or
There
exchanged for coin
at par, at different to the
July and August, six-per-cent. two-years notes,
amount of $14,019,036.
There was borrowed

six-])er-ceiit.
at par in the
same months, upon sixty-days
notes, the
sum
of
$12,877,750; there was borrowed

gust,
at
par, on the 19th of
AuThis
under three-years seven-thirty bonds, $50,000,000."

popularly
last issue is
known
as
*'
seven-thirties."
By
it
certain
banks furnished $50,000,000 in coin, and received in payment

three-year notes bearing interest at 7.30 per cent., convertible
in six-])er-cent. twenty-year bonds.
By
1866, the whole amount
of interest-l)earing notes
was $577,000,000.
Nattoxae BANKiNCr SvsTEM.
Auothcr
important feature
the inauguralittle
of our financial system during the Civil
War was
tion of the National Banking system, whicli, with

cation, has continued in use to the ])resent.
modifi-
TIk^ bill passed in

l)ill
February, 1863.
as follows:
Arguments
in su])port of tlie
were given
The
banks would furnish a mai'ket for bonds; thev
FINANCIAL MEASURES.
261
and that without
would absorb
tlio
rircnlatidii of State hanks,
harsh measures; they wouhl create a citniinunity of interest
between the stockholders of the banks, the

crnnient, wliere there
i<ns
peoj)lo,
;md the Gov-
now
existed a ijreat contrariety of o|ina(h'(|natc

tlie
and
di\'ersity of interests;
safeonards wnuld be
estahh'slie(l
aii'ainst counterfeiting-;
curi-ency
wouM
l)e
uniin
form, and take the place of the notes of 1,(J00 l)anks, ditferingstyh",
and whose notes were easily imitated and altered; that

had been coun-
while^ the notes of one-sixtli of the existinfi; banks

terfeited, l,8(il kinds of imitations
were
afloat, o,()oO alterations
extant, in addition to 1,685 spurious notes, in wliich hardly
any
care had been taken to sbow any resemblance to the genuine.
The
act of
June
3d, 1864,
was a substitute for the
act of
in
February 25, 1863, and provides for a Bureau of (ûrrency

the Treasury Department, at the head of which
is
a ('onii>troller.
In the United States Bank, the GovernuKMit was a large

stockholder, and the officers of the Treasury practically directed
the operations of the bank,
and sometimes accommodated
politi-
cal friends on easy terms, rendering legitimate banking impossible.
Under
the National
Banking system
in the
the
Government
is
not
a shareholder,
and takes no part
management
of the banks,
except to see that the laws controlling them are complied with.
Under
the-
system of multiform State banks, the notes were of

In the
varying value at different times and in different places.

disastrous financial influences of the
War
of 1812, a large ma-
jority of these banks were wrecked, their notes never redeemed,
and a great financial
loss entailed
by the people.
Under
the
262
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
present system the bank notes are of nniform vahie throughout

the Nation, and no bill-holder ran suffer loss.
The
circulation of the banks
was
at first limited to $354,-
000,000, and was distributed
among
the States and Territories
according to wealth and population conjointly.

this jorovision has
The
repeal of
made banking
with a
free.
not less than
iiv'e,
ca])ital of
Any company numbering not less than $50,000, may
form a banking association.
The company must purchase
United States bonds, and deposit them with the Treasurer of the
United States.
On
receipt of these the Treasurer causes to be
printed for the bank an amount of national bank notes in such
denominations as the authorities of the bank
may name,
but the
amount
chased.
stock
is
of notes shall not exceed nine-tenths of the bonds pur-
The amount The bank
varies
from 60 per
cent. Avhen the capital
$3,000,000 or more, to 90 per cent, when not over half

receives interest on the bonds
it
a million.
has puras well
chased, and loans the
money printed by
the
Government
as the deprtsits of its patrons.
It is required to
maintain a
reserve fund in gold and silver coin equal to about 20 per cent,
of
its
capital.
By
this provision the holders of the national
bank notes may convert them into

the bank that issued them.
coin,
by presenting them
to
It is also required to set apart
10
per cent, of
its profits
each year as a sur])lus fund, until such
fund
is
equal to 20 per cent, of the capital stock of the bank.
This surplus provides a means to make good any losses that

occur.
may
CHAPTER
XXII.
COST OF THE WAR. NATIONAL. DEBT. CliOSING EVENTS.

Cost of the War.
of the
bers).
The
IsTational Debt.
At
the close
war the National debt was $2,800,000,000 (round num-
Hundreds
of millions of dollars were expended out of
the revenues of the

this, the
Government
as the
war
progressed.
Besides
incidental losses were innumerable in kind and incal-
culable in amount.
States, cities,
There were heavy

to
expenditures
by
the
and towns, amounting
about $458,000,000.
Other nations have made costly
sacrifices in the struggle for

;
their existence, or in pursuit of their ambitions
but none has
expended, in the same length of time, an amount equal to that
expended during the Civil AVar by our
ISTational
is
Government.
It
is esti-
The amount
mated that
the close of
of the Confeflerate debt
unknown.
if all the
it,
expenditures during the war and debts
at
including the destruction of property, could be

it
added, ISTorth and South,

resenting
at the
all
would be equivalent
to the
sum
rep-
values in the United States as they were estimated
beginning of the war.

total
The
expenditures of Great Britain during the French
Revolution and the career of Napoleon, covering a period of

twenty-three years, was $4,850,000,000, but the combined ex-
penditures of any four years did not equal the amount spent by
the United States in the
same leugth of time.

(263)
Tiie one
grand
264
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
feature of this lavish oxpeiulitiire of wealtli hy our

is,
Government
themselves".
that
it
was directed and enforced bv the people

to the
The fonrteenth aincndment
Constitution provides that
the validity of the pnhlic debt shall not be questioned, and on

the other
shall
hand that neither the United States nor any State

in aid of
pay any debt or oblioation that has been incurred
insurrection against the United States.
The Confederate debt
was void
l)y
the interpretation of this clause, and was so recog-
nized Xorth and South under the terms of the reconstruction of

the Southern States.
Loss OF Life.
their
Willing
as Avere the people to contribute of
money
to the suppression of the Rebellion, still
more readilv
were made
last in
did they respond to the call to arms.

for
Twelve
calls
men during
the war; the
first,
April 15, ISHl, the
December, 1864.
The term
of service varied in ditferent calls,

to three years in others.
from three months in some

loyal
In the
States the
Government
called for
more than 2,750,000
men.
the
Of
this uund)er,
about 103,000 had not responded when
war
closed, but about
120,000
'^
emergency men " were
fur-
nished by the States at the time of Morgan's raid and during

the
summer
of 1863,
which would make the actual number of
men
in the service greater than the
number
of
men
called for.
This number does not represent the number of different individuals engaged, as
many men
enlisted
more than
greatest
once,
and were
of
counted each time they enlisted.

in service at
The
number
men
any one time was
in April, 1865,
when 1,000,516
were on the muster-rolls, of
whom
650,000 were in actual service.
CLOSING EVENTS.
265
rnion, riT.OoO
2)50, 0(mi
ot'
Of
tlioso wlio f^'cwo thoir livos to ])i'o.sorvp tlip
were killed
in battle, 4:^,000 died of
wounds,
dis-
ease and other causes;

I'lie
making
a total of about 340,0(10.

is
number
of
it is
men
enlistinc; in the (V)nfederate srrvice
not kn(twn, bnt

into service
battle,
certain that every availal)l('

<;-o.
man was
drafted
in
who
did not voluntarily
4'hc tnnnlx'r
kill('(|
including those
who
died of wounds and disease, was
probably as great as that of the North,

C\\i'TURE
OF Jefferson
T)a\ts.
Jeffer.-on
Davis
April
l\
took
hasty departure from
Richmond on Sunday,
its
as the
(nty.
Confederate army began
hasty flight from the doomed

to Danville,
Journeying by
this place, set
rail
from Kichmond
he haltecl at
up
his
government, and issued
a stii-ring ]n-ocla-
mation designed
to revive the failing spirits of his C(>nfederates.
Astounded
Avheels
at the
news of Lee's surrender,

to
his
government took
and retreated
Greensboro, South Carolina, where anof Johnston's
other halt wâs made.
The imminent danger
army
again set the tottering government of
a failing
cause in motion.
IST.
this
time in wagons and on horseback, as the railroad south
had been destroyed.
Passing through Salisbury and
C^harlotte,
(Ja.,
C,
Yorkville and Abbeyville, S.
C,
to
Washington,
the
officers
gradually abandoned the sinking craft, until

^\r.
Mi*.
Davis
was attended only by
John
IF.
]xeagan (late Confederate
Postmaster-General), his military
stafl',
and his family.
While
encamped near
Irwinsville, Ga., he
was surprised on the early
dawn
her
of
May
11th by the Union cavalry, and himself, his wife,

escort,
sister,
and his children, and a small body of
were
266
taken prisoners.
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
to
His family were taken by water
Savannah^
and there
set at liberty.
He was
in the
taken to Fortress Monroe, and
kept in confinement for two

treason by
trict of
a
.years.
Mr. Davis was indicted for

dis-
grand jury
United States conrt for the
Virginia, on the 13th of
May, 1867.
He was
liberated
on bail in the amount of $100,000.

nelius Vanderbilt,
His bondsmen were Cor-
Horace Greeley, and Gerrit Smith
life-
long abolitionist.
in the general
His
trial
never occurred, and he was included After his

dis-
amnesty proclamation in 1868.
charge, he became president of a life insurance
company
1889.
in
Memphis, Tenn.
He
died in Tiew Orleans, Dec.
6,
Death of Lincoln. The

erates
14th day of April was the fourth
anniversary of the surrender of Fort Sumter to the Confed-
by Major Anderson.
The whole country was aglow with
rejoicings and congratulations at the overthroAv of the Rebellion
and the return of peace.

had assembled
at
large
crowd of prominent persons

tat-
Fort Sumter to witness the raising of the
tered flag over the historic site

at the
from which
it
had been lowered
time of the
first
bombardment of the
fort.
In the midst
which
of these rejoicings a terrible calamity befell the lâtion,

cast a
gloom over the triumphant scenes of a closing
contest.
President Lincoln, while seeking relaxation from the
many
weighty cares which he had borne, attended Ford's Theater, in
Washington.
and, without
Here he was
stealthily
approached from the rear,

assassin placed his pistol
word or warning, an
behind the
play, and
left ear of the
President as he was intent upon the President Lincoln had held a
fired a
mortal shot.
CLOSING EVENTS.
cabinet
207
to
niPPtinf;'
during the day, and li>tened
an
apr'oiint.
of
the snrroiidcr of ].re as it
was given by Gen. Grant, who

and by
liis
liad
jnst arrived fi'oni A))pomattox,
own
son, Capt. Robt.

to the sur-
Lincoln,
render.
who was on Grant's
staff
and an eye-witness
President Lincoln had invited Gen. Grant and wife to

to
accompany himself and wife

took his departure from
dren,
tlie
the theater, but (Jen.
Grant
city
during the day
to visit his chib
who were attending

The play was
''
scliool
at Burlington,
New
Jersey.
The
assassination occurred on the evening of
Good Friday,
April 14.
Our American
Cousin.''
actor,
The name
of the assassin
was John Wilkes Booth, an
of Baltimore birth.
Being intercepted by ^Fajor Rathbone, the
only other
man
in the box besides the President, the assassin
inflicted a serious
to the
wound
in his
arm with
a dagger.
'^
Rushing
front of the box, Booth exclaimed,
Sic semper tyran-
nis
"
(So be
it
always
to tyrants.)
He
placed his hand on the

it
railing in the front of the box,
and leaped over
on to the corner
of the stage; but as he jumped, the spur on one of his heels
caught in an American flag draped across the front of the

railing,
and he
fell,
spraining his ankle, which greatly impeded

to his pursuers.
his flight,
and afforded a clue
He
was
finally
hunted down by soldiers and shot in a barn in Virginia.
The dying President was
carried to a house across the street,
where he expired the next morning, and Vice-President Andrew
Johnson became chief executive.
Pord's Theater, in which the
shocking event occurred, has been remodeled in the interior, and

is
now (1899) used by
the
Government
for claim ofhces of the
268
THE CIVIL
WAR BY
CAMPAIGNS.
in
Pension Department.
The house
which Lincoln
rlierl
has
recently been purchased by the National Government, nml both

l)uiMin,ii's
arc iiuiiibcrcd aiiion^' the ])laces
ol"
interest
which
at-
tract tlic attention of tourists in Washinf^ton.
The funeral
train ))assed over the

his
same route which Lincoln

Washing-
had taken from
home
in Spring-field, Illinois, to
ton, four velars before.
To
the sorroNVful crowds that j[>athered

in
at every station,
and even along the track
the country,
it
seemed as
if
the light of the Nation had gone out.
lie
was
buried amid the mourning of the Avhole Nation, at
Oak
Ridge,
near Springfield,
dedicated to his
May
4:th,
where an imposing monument was
memory
in 1874.
of spirit and purity
His gentlemanly manner, magnanimity

of private
life,
are an ins2)iration to the youth of the land.

details, his
His
powerful grasp of
unerring
logic, his
perception of
human
nature,
and
his
comprehension of weighty problems
made him
War.
a specially fitted agent of Providence to reign as
supreme executive during the tumultuous scenes of the Civil
Mustering Out.
turning from the
"
The
field,
armies of Sherman and ^Feade,

to
re-
were brought
Washington for a
Grand Review
" by the President and his cabinet.
The review
The
ITouse.
proIt
commenced on
the 23d of
May, and
lasted
two days.
cession passed a grand stand in front of the
White
was an impressive
sight,
and a
fitting close to the turbulent scenes
of the four years of bloody conflict.
The
city
was elaborately
visitors,
decorated.
The
streets
were crowded with throngs of
CLOSING EVENTS.
269
who had come
to witness the scenes of tlie occasion.
The
Stars
and Stripes were waving from every house and
store.
The men in the march were well-drilled, They were

well dressed and well fed for
well-discijjliiKMl
fit
and
orderly soldiers, inured to hardships, and
for
life,
any duty.
but their
army
bronzed faces and tattered and smoky battle-flags told the story
of their past experience.
Tlionghts of the abolition of slavery, the snppression of

Rebellion, the preservation of the Union, the "
tlie
welcome home "
of friends and relatives, and the return to peaceful pursuits of

life, all
fill
mingled with the shouts and rejoicing of the
sjjectators to
the hearts of the soldiers with ecstatic joy.
Grant was
backward
;
there,
Fui-i'a-
the
commander who had never taken
a ste])
gut, the hero of
Xew
Orleans, was there; the aggressive an<l unin-
failing
Sherman, the patient and adamantine Thomas, the
trepid and genial Hancock, the fiery Sheridan, the brave and
impulsive ^Feade, the brilliant Custer, and hosts of others of

lesser
rank but of equal merit, were there.

all
Yet amid
sorrow.
of the festivities and rejoicings there
was much
Three hundred and forty thousand of those wlio bad
taken up arms had long since laid them

roll of the
down
to joiu the mnsterleft
Eternal One. Aêarly every participant had

field of battle,
some
one foi'ever silent on the
^laiiy well-known faces

aiil
were missing.
patriotic son,
John
F.
lleynolds, l-^ciinsylvania's \'aliant
who
fell in tlie battle
of Gettysburg; the gallant,

lost his
lif(^
dashing and inimitable Philip H. Kearny, who
wliile
penetrating the Confederate lines at Chantilly; the courageous
270
and sagacious James B. McPliorsoii, who was killed as Hood was

driven from Atlanta; the zealous and venerable
worth,
James
S.
Wads-
who gave
his life to stem an adverse tide in the l)attle of
the Wilderness; the simple, inflexible
and intrepid John Sedg-
wick,
who
fell a
victim to Confederate sharpshooters while he was
directing the placing of artillery in front of Spottsylvania Court
House
these,
and many other

field
officers of
high rank
who were
grand
left silent
on the
of battle, were not permitted to witness
the exultant close of the wâr, or participate in the final
review.
Words
who gave
fail to express the
homage due the
patriotic leaders
their services,
and some their
lives, for
the preserva-
tion of the
Union
of the States.
No
tribute of respect in honor
of these
tion
men
can be too highly colored.
They deserve
the affecall
of the people
and the admiration of posterity for
generations.
ory,
Their names should be reverently held in
mem-
and their deeds should be cherished as a rich legacy to a

!Nô
great nation.
erected in
monuments
too costly or too
grand can be
commemoration of
their services to their country.
Their works will shine forth with lustre after shafts of marble
and granite
shall
crumble
to dust.
As we pay our
lant
highest respects to the distinguished and galati'airs
men who
directed the
of the Nation and CMmducted
the stupendous campaigns of the great Civil
War, we must not
forget the
man who
stood behind the gun, and the services he

that forever deserves the gratitude of the
rendered.
He
it
is
Nation he helped
to save.
He
had
to
endure the severest hard-
CONCLUSION.
ships and face the greatest dangers.
271
He
had
to bear the heat

to
and burden of the day, endure long, fatiguing marches, and
be exposed to the inclemency of an uncertain and ever-varying

climate.
His
first
duty was obedience.
His place was
to the
front, while the general's

to dare.
was
to the rear.
He
had
to do,
and
He
had
to face perilous
emergencies and impending
dangers.
The private
soldier looked into the cannon's
mouth
and faced musket and bayonet, while his general heard them
only as they sounded their reverberations from the distance as
the tide of battle
swayed back and
forth.
The
private soldier
as his
stood
amid the desolating scenes of rapacious carnage
comrades were falling thick and fast around him, while his
commander generally The
stood
away from immediate danger
to
view and direct the contending forces arrayed in deadly
conflict.
private soldier endured all without the expectation of re-
ward or the hope of immortalizing a name.
His
spirit
was
suffused with patriotism as fervid as any that ever graced the
pages of history, poetry,
fiction, or song.
His name
is legion,
and though no towering monument marks the place where he

rests, his valor
and devotion
to
country will consecrate the spot
as hallowed ground.
All honor to the gallant and patriotic heroes, both privates and
officers
!
Green be the graves where they

and
true.
sleep.
Calm
be the
resting-place of the brave

ties
Forgotten be the animosibitter strife.
and heartaches of the long and
Unsullied be
the banner they fought to protect, and sacred be the trust com-
mitted to our hands.
INDEX.
Pages.
Aequia Creek
Adairsville
166, 182
134
Alabama
Alexandria Allatoona Pass Amelia Court House Anderson Fort Anderson Robert
,
45
32, 166, 182
136, 141
243
162
29
Antietam
Anti-slavery parties Anti-slavery publications
191-193
22-24
19-22
244, 245
Appomattox Court House

Arlington Heights
33
74, 108, 126, 132
Army Army Army Army Army Army Army
of the
of the
Cumberland
Ohio
of the Mississippi
74
74, 108, 132
of the
of
Potomac
165-248
74
74, 132, 143
Southwest Missouri of the Tennessee

of Virginia
180, 182, 186
Athens
Atlanta
143
136-140
162
251
31
Averysboro
Bailey, Colonel
Baltimore Banks, Nathaniel P Bartlett, General Baton Rouge Beaufort Beauregard, P. T Beecher, Henry Ward Bell, Captain
Bell,
101-103, 169, 249
215
90
51, 52 29, 33, 76, 77-79. 83, 218
164
87
John
(273)
24
18
274
lU'lmont
Beiitonville (Ark.)
INDEX.
68
.64
162 201
Rentonville (N. C.)
Berry, General Big Black river

Blair,
99
149 142
Frank P
Bliss, P.
Blockade Blockade-runners Blue Lodges Blunt, General
39
40
17
Bonds
Boonville
65,66 259
58
69, 73
51
,
Bowling Green Bragg. Braxton Brandy Station Breckinridge, John C Brown, John
. . .
.
75, 79, 103-117, 133
212
..23,90,227
24, 25
Brownsville
103
97, 98
Bruinsburg
Buckingham
Buckner, General
Buell, D. C Buford, General Bull Run Burnside, Ambrose
193
72, 73, 121, 125
71, 74, 79, 104-108
206
33-35, 59, 183
51, 52, 125, 193-196, 213, 223
Butler,
Benjamin F
86-89, 161, 218, 222
Cairo
Call for troops
69
30
54, 56
Canby General
,
Carlisle
205
154
Carolinas
Carroll General
,
215
Carthage Casey, General

Cassville
58
171
134
9
Caval iers
Cedar Bluff Cedar Creek Cedar Mountain
252 232
181
INDEX.
275
207
34, 184
Cemetery Ridge
Centreville
Chambersburg Champion Hill

Chancellorsville
205, 230
98 197-202
184
29, 54, 55, 157-160, 164
Chantilly Charleston Chase, Salmon
P
House
34
79, 104, 118-131
Chattanooga
Chesterfield Court
Chickamauga
City Point Cold Harbor
243 122-124
163, 248
220
156
68, 73, 82
Columbia Columbus Compromise
of 1850
15, 16
Confederate cruisers Congress, The

Constitutional Union party
41
47
24
74, 77-79, 80, 81
Corinth Corse, General Cost of war Couch, General Crittenden Compromise Crittenden, George B Crook, General Cullum, General
141
263
206, 209
26, 27 69, 110
227. 229
83
Cumberland, The
Curtis, S.
47
63, 64, 74
Custer, General
244, 245
Customs duties
Dahlgren Admiral Dalton Dana, General Davis, H. C, Commodore
,
254
54
133
103
90,
92
Davis, Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Deatonsville
26, 71, 265
63, 149, 241
244
257
165
Demand
notes
of
Department
Northwest Virginia
27G
Department of the Oliio Department of Washington DeKussy, Fort
Direct tax Donelson, Fort Douglas, Stephen A Douglass, Frederick Dug Spring
INDEX.
125 135
250 258 69-74

23
20
59
51, 53, 54, 154
Dupont,
S.
Early, General
"
228-234
64
91
Elk Horn
Ellet, Colonel
Ellsworth, Colonel Emigrant Aid Society

Ericsson Jolm
,
31,32
17
Ewell, General Fair Oaks
170, 181.
2(J6,
48 215, 244
171
194, 203
Falmouth
Farmville Farragut, David Fisher, Fort Finances Five Forks Florence
244
55, 56, 86-89
160
253 239
144
43, 44
23, 73
The Floyd, John B

Florida,
Foote, Commodore Forrest, General
69, 82
105, 143, 252

69, 70, 71, 252
Fort Donelson Fort Henry Fortress Monroe Foster, John G. Fractional currency Frankfort Franklin Franklin, William B
Frazier's
69, 70
46, 166,218
52, 53, 156
256
107
144
168,
252
177
Farm
of slaves
Fredericksburg
193-196, 203
11
Freedom
INDEX.
Free-Soil party
277
22
23, 59, 61, 170
Fremont, John C
French, General Front Royal Fugitive slave law
Gaines. Fort Gaines's Mill
141,209
170
16
55
175
Gardner, General
Garfield
.
101-103
69 20
152
James A
,
Garrison William Lloyd Georgia Legislature Getty, General
215
Gettysburg Gibbons, General Gillmore, General Gillmore, Quincy A Glendale Goldsborough, L.

,
203-211
199
257
53, 54
177
52, 160, 163
M
B.
Gordon John B Gordon, J. B. (not General John

Gordonsville
239
Gordon)
217
181
97, 98
Grand Gulf Granger, Gordon

Grant, U. S Great Britain Greeley Horace
,
56
68-81, 93-101, 128-132, 163, 212-248
40, 43
266 255
163
215, 217
Greenbacks Greensboro Gregg, General

Grierson, B.
Griffin,
97
175
General ... Guerrilla warfare

Halleck, General
64
69, 74, 77-81, 121, 128, 205, 213
Hampton Roads Hampton AVade

,
49
158
168, 213, 215, 219
Hancock, Winfield S Hanover Court House Hanson, Colonel Hardee, General
168
1J4
76, 105, 118, 137, 153, 158
278
Harper's Ferry
INDEX.
1^
_
î"^
Harpeth river Harrison Landing Hawes, Richard Hazen, General Heiman, Colonel Heintzelman, General Helper, Hinton Rowan Henry. Fort Herron General
,
i"4, 179
1<^7
1^3
71 1"7
-1
69, 70
65
207
178, 207, 215, 222, 241
Heth, General
P Hindman, Fort Hindman. General Hobson General

Hill, A.
,
95
65
115 161
Hoke, General Holly Springs Holmes, General
93
66, 101
Hood, John R Hooker, J. E Howard, 0.0 Hunter, General Hurlbut, General
136-148
128, 130, 138, 177, 191, 197-202
138, 149, 163, 198
53, 54, 215, 227

81, 128
Income tax
Independence
Interest-bearing treasury notes
Internal revenue
Irwinsville
258
66
260
258
265
83, 85
79,
Island No. 10
Iiika
80 98
Jackson, Battle of Jackson, Camp Jackson Claiborne F Jackson Fort Jackson, T. J. Stonewall Jacksonville Jefferson City Jenkins, Albert G Jenkins's Ferry
, ,
57
'.
57
86
169, 181-187, 190, 199
53
58 215
251
INDEX.
.Tetersville
279
244
71, 73-77
Johnston, Albert Sidney Johnson, Edward Johnston, Joseph E Jones, Sam

Jones,
33-35, 98,
IfM),
216 132-136, 156, 164, 167-173 215

227
W. E
Bill
Kansas-Nebraska Kearny, Phil Kearsarge
16-18
177, 185
45
135, 141
Kenesaw Mountain
Kentucky, Invasion Keyes, General Kilpatrick, Judson Kingston
Knoxville
of
104-117
178
138, 149, 252
134
125
Lawrence Kan.)
(
65
198
167, 173-248
Lee, Fitzhugh
Lee, Robert E Legal tenders Lexington (Mo.) Libby Prison Liberty party Lincoln, Abraham Logan's Oross-Roads Longstreet
255
57, 59,61
243, 252
22
23, 27, 31, 39. 43, 153, 163, 165, 248, 253, 266
69
121, 122, 178, 215,240
123, 130, 131
Lookout Mountain
Loss of
life
264
105, 106
Louisville
Lovejoy, Elijah Lovell, Mansfield
20
86
Lynchburg Lyon General Confederate

,
228,238
)
147
;
Lyon, Nathaniel
57, 58,59
Macon, Fort Magruder, General Malvern Hill Manassas Junction

Marietta
52
166, 178
'l78
33, 183
135
280
Marks Mills Marmaduke, General
Marshall, General
INDEX.
251
58, 66, 67
69
187
Maryland Maryland Heights Mason James Murray

.
205
42
153
175, 177
McAllister, Fort
McCall. General McCausland, General McClellan, George B

:S[cClernand,
230
32, 165-193
John A
.
71,95
107, 137
MpCook, A.
McCown, General
McCulloch, Colonel McDowell, Irwin
84
61,63
33. 76. 168, 183
McLean. Mr
McMinnville McPherson, General Meade, G. G
Mechanicsville
245
129
133, 137 191. 198, 203-212, 220
174
91
,
Memphis
Merrimac
Merritt, General
96
46-49 217
14
Mexican "War Miles, Dixon H

Milford Millen
Milliken's
190
63
150
Bend
'.
Mill Spring
95,96 68
203
67
Milroy, R.
Mine Creek Mine explosion Minnesota, The

Missionary Ridge
Mississippi,
223
48
123, 130
Opening
of
82-103
57-67
12-14, 19
Missouri Missouri Compromise

Mitchell,
CM
75
Mobi le Bay Monitor
55 46-49
26, 31
Montgomery
INDEX.
281
91
114
Montgomery. Commodore
Moore, Colonel Morgan Fort Morgan. John H Morrell, General
,
55
105, 112-117
175
Merrill tariff
254
Morris Island Moultrie Fort Mulligan, Colonel James

,
55
29 61
Mumford, William Murfreesboro

Murphy, R. C
Mustering out
Nftshville
89 108-112
93
268
73. 74. 141.
145-148
40, 44
Nassau Natchez
National banking system National debt
90 260-262
253, 263
Naval war Nelson General

,
36-49
105
Newbern New Hope Church New Madrid New Market New Mexico
52
134
,
83, 84
227
New
Orleans
38,
54 85-89
47
Newport News
Norfolk
North Anna Northwest Territory

Objects of the navy Olustee
39,48 218
12
38
251
15, 16
Omnibus
bill
Opdycke, General Ord, General

Osterhaus, P. G Owen, General
Paine's Crossroads
145
80, 8
149
215
244
Pamlico Sound
52
282
Robert Peace Commissions Pea Ridge Pegram, General Pemberlon, General Pensacola Perry ville Petersburg
Patterson
,
INDEX.
33
235-236
63, 64
215
81, 93-101
39, 51,53
106
218, 222-248
Philippi
32
51
208, 215
Pickens, Fort Pickett, General
Piedmont
Pike, Albert
Pillow, Fort Pillow, General
228 63
90
73
Pipe Creek Pittsburg Landing Pleasant Hill Pleasonton, General Pocotaligo Point Isabel Polk, Bishop Pope, John
Porter,
206
74-77 250
66, 123, 199,210
156 103
104, 107, 118
63, 74, 78, 79, 83-85, 181-187

88, 95, 97, 161, 248
Commodore
Porter, Fitz John
168, 175, 177
Port Gibson Port Hudson Port Royal

Prairie
98
101-103
51, 164,217
Grove
65
66, 75, 101 57, 61, 64, 66, 67, 75,79
Prentiss, General
Price, Sterling
Pulaski Pulaski, Fort Puritans
143
53 9
65
Quantrell raid
Railroads, Destruction of
150
163
Raleigh
Rapidan
213
98
Raymond
INDEX. Read, Thomas Buchanan Keagan, John H
283
234
265
226 23
133, 134
Keam's Station
Republican party Resaca
Revenue
Reynolds, John
253
F
31, 165, 218,
198. 207
Richmond
Rich Mountain
221-248
32
51, 52
Roanoke Island
Rosecrans,
W.
32. 66, 79, 80, 108-117
Sabine Cross-Roads Sabine Pass
250
252
244
Creek San Jacinto Savage Station Savannah

Sailor's
42
176
153
64, 142-145, 160-162
18, 19
Schofield, G.
Scott,
Dred
Scott, Winfield
33, 165
Sea Islands
Secession
51
25, 26
"
Sedgwick, General
198-201, 213, 215
Seminary Ridge
209
41, 45, 104
Semmes, Captain
Seven Days' Battle Seven Pines Seymore, Truman Shenandoah Valley
Sheridan, Philip
174-179
172
251
169, 193, 203, 230-234
217, 227-234,238
Sherman, Thomas Sherman, W. T

Shields, General
W
76, 80, 83, 94, 101, ^28-131,
51, 154
132-164
169
Shiloh Ship Island
74-77
86
249, 250
Shreveport Sibley General Sickles, General

,
54
198-201, 207
58, 59, 183, 227
Sigel,
Franz
Slavery
10
284
Slid.'ll.
INDEX.
John
42
>l(X'iiin.
Henry
149, 162, 163, 177,198.

146, 249
^mith. A. J Smith. Kirby Smith. W. F South Mountain Spottsylvania Court House Stanley, General
State rights Stedman, Fort
34, 75, 105, 164, 249, 250
218,220, 222
189
215
142
7.
238
146
249, 251
Steedman, J. B Steele. General Stephens, Alexander
26
185
Stevens, Isaac Ingalls Stewart, George H
216
137, 174,198
Stoneman, General Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Streight, Colonel
21
252
173. 192,217
Stuart, J. E.
Sturgis,
Major
61
171, 191
29. 30, 55, 158, 164
Sumner, General
Sumter, Fort Sumter, The Supplying the army St. Louis
St. Philip
41
151
66 86
143, 250
Taylor, Dick Taylor, General
56
160, 161
Terry, General
Thacher, Admiral Thayer. Eli
56
17
The Alabama The Florida The Navy of 1861 The Sumter Thomas, George H Thoroughfare Gap
Tilghman, General
Tiptonville
45
43, 44
37
41
68, 106, 123-131, 142-148
183
71
85
INDEX.
* '
285
255
Treasury notes Trent affair
"
'
"
'
42, 43
143
104,
TuUahx)ma Tupelo
Vanderbilt, Cornelius Van Dorn Earl Vickshurg, first attack Vicksburg, second attack Yicksburg, third attack
,
US
266
.63, 64, 75, 79, 81

'
90
92 96-101
Wachusett Wadsworth, James 8
""
' "
"
44
215
'
55
51
^^^ ^^ 106,229
Wagner Fort
,
' '
"
'
"
Walker, Fort Wallace, Lew Warren, George S
'
'
013, 219, 225, 240
193 170
Warrenton Washington
'
215
'
Webb, General Weldon Railroad

Wêst Indies
"
'
225
40
"
'
'
66
32, 33
Westport
West Virginia
Wheeler, General Whipple, General
129
'
201
^1". 238
168, 174
White House White House Landing White Oak Swamp

Whitney, Eli Whittier, John G Wilderness Wilkes, Captain
Williams, A. S
'
'
'
'
'
'
jyg I77
'
10
'
'
"
20
214
'
'
42
'
9^ 95, 149
167
'
Williamsburg Wilmington
162
'
15
Wilmot Proviso
'
217
" '
Wilson, General Wilson's Creek
"
59
-231,
233,234
Winchester
286
Wise, H. A Wright, II.
INDEX.
52
(t
53, 215, 219, 229, 233
York York river Yorktown

Zollicoffer, F.
205
'
217
166
68, 69
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TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1923 L R

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Causes of the Civil

War tlie War

Grant's Campaign in the West

of the Mississippi River

Bragg's Invasion of Kentucky

Sherman's March to the Sea

Sheridan and Early

the Shenandoah Valley

Peace Commission, and Surrender of Lee

20. 21. 22.

War National Debt

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Grant at Vicksburg Campaigns of Buell and Bragg

The Army of the Potomac Lee's Campaign in Virginia

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following chapters have been prepared for those

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