Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 6 (Battles & Leaders of the Civil War)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 30, 2007
Place of publication: Urbana, IL
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 632
ISBN-13: 9780252074516
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: general; Civil war; Literary Collections; History - Military / War; Literature: Classics; The Americas; Military - United States; United States - Civil War; Literary Collections / Essays; Essays
First sentence: IN JUNE 1857, I entered the Military Academy at West Point as a cadet, having received my appointment thereto through the kindness of the Hon. John A. Bingham, then representing in Congress the district in Ohio in which I was born, and in which I had spent almost my entire boyhood.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Prelude to War.; title: From West Point to the Battlefield / General George A. Custer; title: The Seventh Regiment at the Capital / General Egbert L. Viele; title: Part 2. The War In 1861.; title: Alexandria, a Graphic Account of Its Capture / General Orlando B. Willcox; title: The Battle of Rich Mountain / General William S. Rosecrans; title: At the Battle of Bull Run with the Second New Hampshire Regiment / General Francis S. Fiske; title: What I Saw at Wilson's Creek / Private Joseph A. Mudd; title: Part 3. Leaders, Civilian and Military.; title: Lincoln and Grant / Colonel Horace Porter; title: Robert E. Lee / President Jefferson Davis; title: Part 4. The War in 1862.; title: Stonewall Jackson's Discontent / Colonel Alexander R. Boteler; title: My Campaign in East Kentucky / President James A. Garfield; title: A Boy at Shiloh / John A. Cockerill; title: A Soldier's Letter from Shiloh / Brevet Major Robert P. Barry; title: Sketching under Fire at Antietam / Correspondent Frank H. Schell; title: The Battle of Perryville / General William P. Carlin; title: In the Ranks at Stones River / Corporal Ebenezer Hannaford; title: Part 5. The War In 1863.; title: Grierson's Cavalry Raid / Captain Stephen A. Forbes; title: Recollections of Marye's Heights and Salem Church / General Benjamin G. Humphreys; title: Criminal Blundering at Chancellorsville / General John C. Lee; title: With Hood at Gettysburg / Colonel Robert M. Powell; title: Further Recollections of Gettysburg Generals / Daniel E. Sickles, John Newton, and Daniel Butterfield; title: Another View of Gettysburg / General John Gibbon; title: General "Jeb" Stuart at Gettysburg / Colonel John S. Mosby; title: Port Hudson: The Forlorn Hope and the Siege / Colonel Prentiss Ingraham; title: Plain Living at Johnson's Island / Lieutenant Horace Carpenter; title: A Romance of Morgan's Rough Riders / Generals Basil W. Duke and Orlando B. Willcox, and Captain Thomas H. Hines; title: The Assault on Fort Wagner / Drummer Robert D. Kelley; title: The Mistakes of Grant in Relation to the Chickamauga Campaign / General William S. Rosecrans; title: Grant at Chattanooga / General Oliver O. Howard; title: Part 6. The War In 1864.; title: Dahlgren's Raid / Lieutenant H.A.D. Merritt; title: The Siege of Petersburg / General August V. Kautz; title: The Battle of Petersburg / General Pierre G.T. Beauregard; title: The Crater / Lieutenant Freeman S. Bowley; title: With Sherman at Atlanta Colonel / Albert G. Brackett; title: The Price Campaign of Captain George S. Grover Sheridan at Winchester / Major Benjamin W. Crowninshield; title: General Schofield at Franklin / Captain John K. Shellenberger; title: Part 7. Fireside and Field of Battle.; title: The Railroad Brigade / General Herman Haupt; title: Telegraphing in Battle / J. Emmet O'Brien; title: A View of the Confederacy from the Inside / Judge John A. Campbell; title: Part 8. The War In 1865.; title: The Failure of the Hampton Conference / General Fitzhugh Lee; title: The Fall of Fort Fisher / Thomas H. Sutton; title: The Burning of Columbia / Colonel James G. Gibbes; title: The Last Days of the Rebellion / General Philip H. Sheridan; title: The Last Days of Lee's Army / Colonel Charles Marshall; title: An Effort to Rescue Jefferson Davis / General Joseph Wheeler; title: The Last Chapter in the History of the War / Lieutenant J.M. Bundy; title: Part 9. Epilogue.; title: Why the Confederacy Failed / Duncan Rose, with Replies from Generals Stephen D. Lee, Joseph Wheeler, Edward Porter Alexander, Evander M. Law, Don Carlos Buell, Oliver O. Howard, and Jacob D. Cox