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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
FROM THE EARLIEST DISCOVERY OF AMERICA TO THE PRESENT TIME
BY
E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS
CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF BROWN UNIVERSITY
With 650 Illustrations and Maps
VOLUME IV.
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1912
COPYRIGHT, 1894 AND 1903, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
[Illustration: Scribner's logo.]
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.
Grant's Masterly Strategy.
Sherman's Movements.
McClernand's.
Gunboats pass Vicksburg.
Capture of Jackson, Miss.
Battle of Champion's 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.
Bragg's Movements.
Chattanooga.
The "Battle above the Clouds."
Capture of Missionary Ridge.
Bragg's Army Broken Up.
Grant Lieutenant-General.
Plan of Campaign for 1864-65.
Sherman's Army.
Skirmishes.
Kenesaw Mountain.
Johnston at Bay.
Hood in Command.
Assumes 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.
McDowell Retained at Fredericksburg.
Lee Assumes the Offensive.
Gaines's Mill.
The Seven Days' Retreat.
Malvern Hill.
Union Army at Harrison's Landing.
Discouragement.
McClellan Leaves the Peninsula.
Pope's Advance on Richmond.
Retreat.
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