Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.
THE CENTURY WAR BOOK.
IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE “PEOPLE'S PICTORIAL EDITION.”
Gettysburg.
nr״ ÌRidpn i1vdes0ri1i,tl01i,of th!s battle by leaders on both sides, with connecting notes by GEN. inwr«TDPCT making the whole story of the battle easily understood. The articles are by GEN. LONOsTREET,co_d1ng the First Corps of Lee’s army, QEN. HENRY J. HUNT, chief of artillery i?fd«hYwNii th0 ^040™a® (Union); QEN. ALEXANDER, chief of Longstreet’s artillery; QEN. NEYS״A'y׳ ^.h® commanded Kershaw’s Confederate brigade; QEN. E. M. LAW, who commanded a ca™"!a“	1MB0DEN, commanding a Confederate
Vicksburg.
si^e, by GEN. GRANT, commander of the besieging armies ; the Confederate side, by COL. LOCKETT, chief engineer of the defenses of Vicksburg.
Chickamauga.
Confederate GEN. Gen.
The Confederate side, describing the great attack, by GEN. D. H. HILL, commanding a Contee c?[iPiSLiì1־?riLmolì.sl<le’ b}’GEN. OPDYCKE, who was Colonel of the 125th Ohio in the battle, by McCoolpJstairWl10 WaS Gen- Grailger’8 chief-of-staff, and by GEN. THURSTON, who was on
Chattanooga.
piY!WTUW\co,m״a1uiih,;UI,,e L׳ni°n Army ; the assault on Missionary Ridge described by GEN. FULLERTON, Union, and by GEN. BRAXTON BRAGG, Confederate.	J
Operations on the Atlantic Coast.
Y'Y״l\r'.UTvPx,,״TtiS,,’,d®R?ribed by GEN. BURNSIDE ; tbe attack on Charleston, by GEN. QUINCY EsEi?I?REt ״‘U Uisher. by CAPT. SELFRIDGE, commanding a naval division ; the Confederate “a?mAl!>,SnlalKe’ /YUìS'i	’wltl1 4be thrilling story of the destruction of the
Albemarle, by COMMANDER CUSHING, who led the expedition to sink the ram.
The Wilderness.
WMTTpi°D״ioe,abJ.i5N• 0,1HU'' 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.	J 66
Sherman’s March.
iVcriov1״, YiHW W7’!-,®1.״ /TN• SHERMAN, with articles by GEN. O. O. HOWARD and GEN. HENRY W. SLOCUM ; the Confederate side, by GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, wbo opposed Sberman’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 tbe Battle of tbe Crater; GEN. HENRY G. THOMAS, and others.
The Fight Between the “Alabama” and the “ Kearsarge.”
LìX T^RS^THrSSii EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE •• ALABAMA ־־
Five Forks and Appomattox.
Gen• Grants staff, Wit11 articles on the fall of Richmond hy a CONFEDERATE CAPTAIN, and the occupation by A MEMBER OF GEN. WEITZEL’S STAFF: with an article on y 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 Ridge Campaign, hy Gen. Sigel, famous cavalry raids described by their leaders, Hood’s invasion of Tennessee, numerous articles bv 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 by a sergeant of the garrison; the Confederate side, by GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE, Aide-de-Camp to Gen. Beauregard, tbe Confederate Commander, who besieged Fort Sumter.
Bull Run.
Tiie Union side, by GEN. FRY of the staff of Gen. McDowell, commanding the Union forces, and by 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 tbe Confederate Army of the Potomac, and by GEN. IMBODEN, commanding a battery of artillery.
Fort Doneison.
Graphically described by GEN. LEW WALLACE, author of “Ben Hur,” etc., commanding the Third Division of the Union forces.
Shiloh.
By GEN. GRANT, the Union Commander, supplemented by an article by GEN. BUELL; the Con-±.e1<ler^t?.^1(le Described by COL. WM. PRESTON JOHNSTON, son of the Confederate Commander, Albert Sidney Johnston, killed at Shiloh —the 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.”
,1r,I;.UTENr.ANT ON THE “ MERRIMAC ” and by THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER OP THE “MOW-i or. Capt. Ericsson tells how the “Monitor” was invented, and a survivor of the erew describes her loss m a storm off Hatteras.
The Peninsular Campaign.
STcomjnanded the Union Army, with a supplementary article hy PHILIPPE COMTE de PARIS, of Gen. McClellan’s staff, and articles on tbe various battles of the campaign — Seven Pines, Hanover Court House, Gaines’ Mill, Malvern Hill, The Seven Days’ Fight-
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The Capture of New Orleans.
si<ie; *^ADMIRAL PORTER, wbo commanded tbe 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.
TALIAFERRO^ P0PE’ Union Commander; the Confederate side by GEN. LONGSTREET, and GEN.
Antietam.
The Union side, by GEN. M’CLELLAN, with notes by GEN. JOSEPH HOOKER, the story of the battle as seen irom 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 the Battle of Iuka, by GEN. HAMILTON; the Battle of Corinth, by GEN. ROSECRANS : ^״fi״e£b01P° ’by £EN. CRITTENDEN, commanding the left wing; the Confederate side by COL. UR-QUHART, of Gen. Bragg’s staff.
Fredericksburg.
*>7 GEN. COUCH, commanding׳־the Second Corps, and by GEN. AMES and GEN. REYNOLDS; the Confederate side, by GEN. M’LAWS and other Confederate officers.
Chancellorsville.
2 ־?e JJ,uion	by GEN. PLEASONTON, commanding the cavalry, by GEN. HOWARD, commanding
the Eleventh Corps, and fry LIEUT.=COL. JACKSON, of Gen. Newton’s staff; the Confederate side! with special reference to the death of Stonewall Jackson, described by the REV. JAMES POWER SMITH, Stonewall Jackson’s aide=de=camp.
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