s for
Human Rights--Treason in Buchanan's Cabinet--Citizens Stop Guns at
Pittsburg--Conditions at the Beginning of the Struggle--Southern
Advantages--The Soldiers of Both Armies Compared--Conscription in the
Confederacy--Southern Resources Limited--The North at a Disadvantage at
First, but Its Resources Inexhaustible--Conscription in the North--
Popular Support of the War--Unfriendliness of Great Britain and
France--Why They Did Not Interfere, 277

CHAPTER XXXIV.

The Confederate Government Organized--Fort Sumter--President Lincoln
Calls for 75,000 Men--Command of the Union Forces Offered to Robert E.
Lee--Lee Joins the Confederacy--Missouri Saved to the Union--Battle of
Bull Run--Union Successes in the West--General Grant Captures Fort
Donelson--"I Have No Terms But Unconditional Surrender"--The Monitor
and Merrimac Fight--Its World-wide Effect--Grant Victorious at Shiloh
--Union Naval Victory Near Memphis--That City Captured--General
McClellan's Tactics--He Retreats from Victory at Malvern Hill--Second
Bull Run Defeat--Great Battle of Antietam--Lee Repulsed, but Not
Pursued--McClellan Superseded by Burnside--Union Defeat at Fredericksburg
--Union Victories in the West--Bragg Defeated by Rosecrans at Stone
River--The Emancipation Proclamation, 287

CHAPTER XXXV.

General Grant Invests Vicksburg--The Confederate Garrison--Scenes in the
Beleaguered City--The Surrender--Hooker Defeated at Chancellorsville--
Death of "Stonewall" Jackson--General Meade Takes Command of the Army
of the Potomac--Lee Crosses the Potomac--The Battle of Gettysburg--The
First Two Days--The Third Day--Pickett's Charge--A Thrilling Spectacle
--The Harvest of Death--Lee Defeated--General Thomas, "The Rock of
Chickamauga"--"This Position Must Be Held Till Night"--General Grant
Defeats Bragg at Chattanooga--The Decisive Battle of the West, 295

CHAPTER XXXVI.

Grant Appointed Lieutenant-General--Takes Command in Virginia--Battles
of the Wilderness--The Two Armies--Battle of Cedar Creek--Sheridan's
Ride--He Turns Defeat Into Victory--Confederate Disasters on Land and
Sea--Farragut at Mobile--Last Naval Battle of the War--Sherman Enters
Atlanta--Lincoln's Re-election--Sherman's March to the Sea--Sherman
Captures Savannah--Thomas Defeats Hood at Nashville--Fort Fisher
Taken--Lee Appointed General-in-Chief-