History of the United States Volume Iv Part 1

History of the United States Volume Iv Part 1

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.


by E. Benjamin Andrews.


VOLUME IV.


NEW YORK.


CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS.


1912.


CONTENTS.


PERIOD IV.


CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION.


(Continued)


1860--1868


CHAPTER V. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY


Three Great Lines of Campaign.


Confederate Posts in Kentucky.


Surrender of Fort Henry.


Siege of Fort Donelson.


Capture.


Kentucky Cleared of Armed Confederates.


Pope Captures Island No. 10.


Gunboat Fight.


Memphis Ours.


Battle of Pittsburg Landing.


Defeat and Victory.


Farragut and Butler to New Orleans.


Battle.


Victory.


The Crescent City Won.


On to Vicksburg.


Iuka.


Corinth.


Grants Masterly Strategy.


Shermans Movements.


McClernands.


Gunboats pa.s.s Vicksburg.


Capture of Jackson, Miss.


Battle of Champions Hill.


Siege of Vicksburg.


Famine within.


The Surrender.


CHAPTER VI. THE WAR IN THE CENTRE


Bragg Invades Kentucky.


Buell Saves Louisville.


Battle of Perryville.


Of Stone River.


Losses.


Chickamauga.


Thomas the "Rock of Chickamauga."


Grant to the Front.


Braggs Movements.


Chattanooga.


The "Battle above the Clouds."


Capture of Missionary Ridge.


Braggs Army Broken Up.


Grant Lieutenant-General.


Plan of Campaign for 1864-65.


Shermans Army.


Skirmishes.


Kenesaw Mountain.


Johnston at Bay.


Hood in Command.


a.s.sumes the Offensive.


Sherman in Atlanta.


Losses.


Hood to Alabama and Tennessee.


The March to the Sea.


Living on the Country.


Sherman at Savannah.


Hardee Evacuates.


A Christmas Gift.


The Blow to the Confederacy.


Thomas Crushes Hood.


Sherman Marches North.


Charleston Falls.


Columbia.


Johnston Routed at Bentonville.


Sherman Master of the Carolinas.


Johnston Surrenders.


CHAPTER VII. THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGNS OF 1862--63


McClellan to Fortress Monroe.


Yorktown.


Williamsburg.


Fair Oaks.


Lee in Command.