1861. Introduction / Craig L. Symonds -- Inside
... Sumter in '61 / James Chester -- The first step in the war / Stephen D. Lee -- War preparations in the North / Jacob D. Cox -- The Confederate Government at Montgomery / R. Barnwell Rhett -- Going to the front: recollections of a private by Warren Lee Goss -- The first battle of Bull Run / P. G. T. Beauregard -- Responsibilities of the First Bull Run / Joseph E. Johnston -- Arkansas troops in the Battle of Wilson's Creek / N. B. Pearce -- The flanking column at Wilson's Creek / Franz Sigel -- 1862. Introduction / Stephen W. Sears -- The gun-boats at Belmont and Fort Henry / Henry Walke -- The Western Flotilla at Fort Donelson, Island Number Ten, Fort Pillow and Memphis / Henry Walke -- The capture of Fort Donelson / Lew Wallace -- The Battle of Shiloh / Ulysses S. Grant -- Surprise and withdrawal at Shiloh / S. H. Lockett -- The Shiloh Battle: order and the withdrawal Sunday evening / Alexander Robert Chisolm -- The plan and construction of the "Merrimac" / John M. Brooke and John L. Porter -- The building of the "Monitor" / John Ericson -- The first fight of iron clads [ironclads] / John Taylor Wood -- Farragut's capture of new Orleans / William T. Meredith -- Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah / John D. Imboden -- The peninsular campaign / George B. McClellan -- The second battle of Bull Run / John Pope -- The invasion of Maryland / James Longstreet -- The Battle of Antietam / Jacob D. Cox -- The Battle of Fredericksburg / James Longstreet -- 1863. Introduction / James M. McPherson -- The Chancellorsville campaign / Darius N. Couch -- Stonewall Jackson's last battle / James Power Smith -- Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania / James Longstreet -- The first day at Gettysburg / Henry J. Hunt -- The second day at Gettysburg / Henry J. Hunt -- The third day at Gettysburg / Henry J. Hunt -- The Confederate retreat from Gettysburg / John D. Imboden -- The Vicksburg campaign / Ulysses S. Grant -- Naval operations in the Vicksburg Campaign / James Russell Soley -- The capture of Port Hudson / Richard B. Irwin -- Chickamauga: the great battle of the West / Daniel H. Hill -- Chattanooga / Ulysses S. Grant -- 1864. Introduction / Joan Waugh -- From the wilderness to Cold Harbor / E. M. Law -- Hand-to-hand fighting at Spotsylvania / G. Norton Galloway -- Sheridan's Richmond raid / Theo. F. Rodenbough -- General Lee in the wilderness campaign / Charles S. Venable -- The battle of the Petersburg crater / William H. Powell -- The duel between the "Alabama" and the "Kearsarge" / John M. Browne -- The colored troops at Petersburg / Henry Goddard Thomas -- Preparing for the campaigns of '64 / Ulysses S. Grant -- The struggle for Atlanta / Oliver O. Howard -- Farragut at Mobile Bay / John Coddington Kinney -- The invasion of Tennessee / J. B. Hood -- Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley / Wesley Merritt -- Repelling Hood's invasion of Tennessee / Henry Stone -- Early's march to Washington in 1864 / Jubal A. Early -- Sherman's advance from Atlanta / Oliver O. Howard -- Marching through Georgia and the Carolinas / Daniel Oakey -- 1865. Introduction / James I. Robertson, Jr. -- Sherman's march from Savannah to Bentonville / Henry W. Slocum -- The navy at Fort Fisher / Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr. -- The recapture of Fort Stedman / John F. Hartanft -- Five forks and the pursuit of Lee / Horace Porter -- The fall of Richmond: 1. The evacuation / Clement Sulivane -- II. The occupation / Thomas Thatcher Graves -- The surrender at Appomattox Court house / Horace Porter -- General Lee's farewell address to his army / Charles Marshall -- Final operations of Sherman's army / H. W. Slocum -- Last days of the Confederacy / Basil W. Duke, with notes on the Union and Confederate armies. Read More