Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.
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cl of this great battle by leaders on both sides, with connecting notes by the whole story of the battle easily understood. The articles are by
Gettysburg.
A wonderful description of this DOUBLEDAY, making
LONGCTREET, commanding tlie First Corps oi Lee’s army, GEN. HENRY J. HUNT, chief of artillery 0tonfac (Union); GEN. ALEXANDER, chief of Longstreet’s artillery; GEN. KERSHAW, who commanded Kershaw’s Confederate brigade; GEN. E. M. LAW, who commanded a Confederate division in the assault on “Round Top”; GEN. IMBODEN, commanding a Confederate cavalry brigade; LIEUT.=COL. RICE, U. S. A., etc., etc.
Vicksburg.
The Union side, by GEN. GRANT, commander of the besieging armies ; the Confederate side, by COL. LOCKETT, chief engineer of the defenses of Vicksburg.
Chickamauga.
The Confederate side, describing the great attack, by GEN. D. H. HILL, commanding a Confederate “	־“ " ׳׳^GEN^OPDYCKE./who was_Coldnel of_the 126th Ohio in the battle, by GEN.
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FULLERTON, who was Gen. Granger’s chief-of-staff, and by GEN. THURSTON, who was on Gen. McCook’s staff.
Chattanooga.
5?0״,EA.£J?AI,ÌT׳ commanding the Union Army ; the assault on Missionary Eidge described by GEN. FULLERTON, Union, and by GEN. BRAXTON BRAGG, Confederate.
Operations on the Atlantic Coast.
T11<À1'״.r?Aa^A,x?.eaitlo:Q’ described by GEN. BURNSIDE ; the attack on Charleston, by GEN. QUINCY A. GILLMORE : Fort Fisher, by CAPT. SELFRIDGE, commanding a naval division ; the Confederate Albemarle,” by her builder, Gilbert Elliott, with the thrilling story of the destruction of the Albemarle, ’ by COMMANDER CUSHING, who led the.expedition to sink the ram.
The Wilderness.
0;“״“Side, t>y GEN. GRANT, GEN. ALEXANDER S. WEBB, GEN. MARTIN McMAHON, GEN. WM. FARRAR SMITH, and others; the Confederate side, by GEN. E. M. LAW, Geo. Cary Eggleston, and others.
Sherman’s March.
Including a great article by GEN. SHERMAN, with articles by GEN. O. O. HOWARD and GEN. HENRY W. SLOCUM ; the Confederate side, by GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, who opposed Sherman’s march to Atlanta, and others.
Sheridan in the Shenandoah.
The Union side, by GEN. WESLEY MERRITT ; the Confederate side, by GEN. JUBAL A. EARLY.
Petersburg.
By MAJOR POWELL, who describes the Battle of the Crater ; GEN. HENRY G. THOMAS, and others.
The Fight Between the “Alabama” and the “ Kearsarge.”
A great story of this famous fight, related by THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER OP THE “ ALABAMA ” and by THE SURGEON OF THE “ KEARSARGE.”
Five Forks and Appomattox.
By GEN. HORACE PORTER, of Gen. Grant’s staff, with articles on the fall of Richmond by a CONFEDERATE CAPTAIN, and the occupation by A MEMBER OF GEN. WEITZEL’S STAFF: with an article on “ The Last Days of the Confederacy,” by the Confederate GEN. DUKE, and the story of the grand review in Washington, by GEN. SLOCUM.
In addition to the battles and campaigns described above, there are papers on many other important engagements, such as the Battle of Mobile Bay, the Pea B.idge*Campaign, by Gen. Sigel, famous cavalry raids described by tbeir leaders, Hood’s invasion of Tennessee, numerous articles by privates on both sides describing the life in the ranks, etc., etc.
Fort Sumter.
The Union side, by GEN. DOUBLEDAY, Executive Officer of the Fort, and hy a sergeant of the garrison; the Confederate side, by GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE, Aide-de-Camp to Gen. Beauregard, the Confederate Commander, who besieged Fort Sumter.
Bull Run.
The Union side, by GEN. FRY of the staff of Gen. McDowell, commanding the Union forces, and hy Walt Whitman the poet, who describes the return of the retreating troops to Washington as seen by him while nursing in ,the hospital; the Confederate side,by GEN. BEAUREGARD, commanding the Confederate Army of the Potomac, and by GEN. IMBODEN, commanding a battery of artillery.
Fort Donelson.
Ben Hur,” etc., commanding the Third
Graphically described by GEN. LEW WALLACE, author of ‘ Division of the Union forces.
Shiloh.
By GEN. GRANT, the Union Commander, supplemented by an article by GEN. BUELL! the Confederate side described by COL. WM. PRESTON JOHNSTON, son of the Confederate Commander, Albert Sidney Johnston, killed at Shiloh—tbe second day’s fighting described by GEN. BEAUREGARD, who ׳took command after the death of Gen. Johnston.
The Fight Between the “Monitor” and the “ Merrimac.”
By a LIEUTENANT ON THE “ MERRIMAC ” and by THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE “MONITOR.” Capt. Ericsson tells how the “Monitor” was invented, and a survivor of the crew describes her loss in a storm off Hatteras.
The Peninsular Campaign.
By GEN. GEORGE B. M’CLELLAN, who commanded the Union Army, with a supplementary article by PHILIPPE COMTE de PARIS, of Gen. McClellan’s staff, and articles on the various battles of the campaign —Seven Pines, Hanover Court House, Gaines’ Mill, Malvern Hill, The Seven Days’ Fighting, by generals on both sides, including FITZ-JOHN PORTER, LONGSTREET, D. H. HILL, GUSTA-VUS W. SMITH, and JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON.
The Capture of New Orleans.
The*Union side, Ijy ADMIRAL PORTER, who commanded the mortar fleet, and by COMMANDER BARTLETT, and CAPTAIN KAUTZ; tbe Confederate side, by CAPT. BEVERLEY CANNON, and by George W. Cable, the famous novelist, who was a lad in New Orleans at the time of the capture.
The Second Battle of Bull Run.
By GEN. JOHN POPE, Union Commander; the Confederate side by GEN. LONGSTREET, and GEN. TALIAFERRO.
Antietam.
The Union side, by GEN. M’CLELLAN, with notes by GEN. JOSEPH HOOKER, the story of the battle as seen from the ranks by a private, and an army correspondent’s account of it by Charles Carleton Coffin; the Confederate side, by GEN. LONGSTREET, who commanded the right and center, and “A Southern Woman’s Recollections of Antietam.”
From Corinth to Murfreesboro’.
Including tie Battle of luka, by GEN. HAMILTON ; the Battle of Corinth, hy GEN. ROSECRANS : Murfreesboro’, by GEN. CRITTENDEN, commanding the left wing ; the Confederate side by COL. UR-QUHART, of Gen. Bragg’s staff.
Fredericksburg.
The Union side, by GEN. COUCH, commanding the Second Corps, and hy GEN. AMES and GEN. REYNOLDS ; the Confederate side, by GEN. M’LAWS and other Confederate officers.
Chancellorsville.
Tbe Union side, by GEN. PLEASONTON, commanding the cavalry, by GEN. HOWARD, commanding the Eleventh Corps, and by LIEUT.=COL. JACKSON, of Gen. Newton’s staff; the Confederate side, with special reference to thé death of Stonewall Jackson, described by the REV. JAMES POWER SMITH, Stonewall Jackson’s aide-de-camp.
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