A youth's history of the great Civil War in the United States, from 1861 to 1865
By: by R. G. Horton ; with illustrations
Publisher: Van Evrie, Horton & Co.
Published: 1867
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Copyright date: 1866
Description: Written by a sympathizer with the southern cause ; presents a pro-South, pro-state rights, pro-slavery, anti-Republican Party, and anti-Abraham Lincoln view of the Civil War.
Notes: "Fortieth thousand."

Includes bibliographical references.

Bound in cloth.

Copy 2 lacks t.p.
Table of contents: title: The causes of the war; title: The election of Lincoln; title: Secession; title: The policy and object of secession; title: The beginning of secession; title: Efforts of the Democracy to save the Union; title: The formation of the new Confederacy; title: Mr. Lincoln's journey to Washington and inauguration; title: "The first gun of Sumter"; title: Mr. Lincoln's first call for troops; title: The rush of troops to Washington; title: The first great battle; title: The campaign in the West; title: Campaign in western Virginia and Battle of Leesburg; title: Campaign in Kentucky; title: Closing events of 1861, and the beginning of 1862; title: The Battles of Shiloh and Pittsburg Landing; title: The fall of New Orleans : "Butler the beast"; title: Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley; title: Embarkation of the Army of the Potomac; title: Doings of Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley; title: Battle of Fair Oaks and Gaines's Mills; title: McClellan's retreat; title: The inauguration of a reign of plunder and arson; title: The Second Battle of Manassas ; Bull Run; title: Lee in Maryland ; Battle of Antietam; title: Bloody doings in the west; title: General Burnside's bloody campaign; title: Mr. Lincoln's campaign in the North; title: The Battle of Murfreesboro ; doings in the west; title: General Hooker's campaign; title: The Siege of Vicksburg; title: The naval defeat off Charleston ; Gillmore's repulse; title: Gen. Morgan's raid into the west ; Chickamauga; title: The Confederate Navy and privateers; title: Events in the north in 1863; title: The opening events of 1864; title: Gen. Grant's "On to Richmond"; title: Sherman's "On to Atlanta"; title: The presidential election and other events of 1864; title: Gen. Sherman's march to Savannah and Goldsboro; title: Events of 1865 ; General Lee's surrender; title: The assassination of Mr. Lincoln; title: The capture of Jefferson Davis.