U.S. HISTORY ANTIQUE REVOLUTIONARY INDIAN CIVIL WAR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

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THE STORY OF A GREAT NATION, Or, Our Country’s Achievements, Military, Naval. Political, and Civil. To Which Is Added a Biographical Portrait of Gallery of Her Great Leaders, Including Statesmen, Orators, Diplomats, Jurists, Soldiers, Sailors, Explorers, Financiers, Inventors, Philanthropists, Reformers, Engineers, Scientists, Artists, Authors, Etc., Etc. Also Our Presidents, Their Portraits and Autographs. By John Gilmary Shea. Published in 1886 by New York Publishing and Manufacturing Co. 9.5” x 7.5” cloth hardcover. “Illustrated with Several Hundred Engravings Including Over 350 Portraits.” 990 pages.

Condition: VERY GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Attractive exterior as shown in photo, with light wear. Inner hinges cracked but everything’s holding okay. Text block is solid and secure. The text is clean and complete. Pages lightly toned. There are no torn, loose or missing pages. All in all, a very nice example of this immensely satisfying antique volume.

Description:

This oversize antique book is a monumental tribute to the history and heritage of America, a chronicle of our national achievements, and a testament to the patriotic individuals who dedicated and even sacrificed their lives to make those triumphs possible.

THE STORY OF A GREAT NATION is divided into two primary sections. The first part is called the “Biographical Portrait Gallery of Prominent Characters in American History.” Approximately 100 pages in length, this section features portraits and brief biographies of hundreds of prominent figures from our country’s storied past, including all of nation’s Presidents, from George Washington through Grover Cleveland, who was President when this book was published.

“The Biographical Portrait Gallery” also contains numerous portraits and biographical sketches of Revolutionary War figures, pioneers and explorers, Indians, Civil War commanders and soldiers, statesmen and orators, and many other great Americans. In addition, it contains a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence in the handwriting of Thomas Jefferson, along with reproductions of the autographs of all the Signers.

The second portion of this mammoth volume consists of a sprawling history of America presented in chronological order, beginning with the first discoveries by Christopher Columbus and concluding almost five hundred years later with the administration of President Grover Cleveland. The Colonial Period, the Revolutionary Era, the National Period and the Civil War years are all covered in depth. The History section is nearly 900 pages long and is illustrated with many engravings and sketches of historic scenes described in the narrative. (For a complete summary of the History portion, see below)

The author states in the Preface:

To present the great facts of our country’s history in an attractive and readable form has been the object of this work … The author has aimed to give the narrative clearness and simplicity, to be impartial, giving each part of the country an equal importance, and equal justice; and in the treatment of events, giving importance only to such as deserve it, in view of their bearing on the Whole country.

A History of the United States for the general public should be one to be read with equal interest in every State, by persons of every age. It should be as clear as the crystal Waters of our purest streams, as solid and impartial as the great mountains that receive serenely the sunshine and the storm, and look calmly down on the quiet plain and the thunderous cataract.

This volume may not fulfill all that is aimed at or desired, but it can claim to have made a step in the proper direction towards affording a History of our country, readable, impartial, and accurate.

CONTENTS ARE:

INTRODUCTION: The Spirit of Discovery awakened in Europe * The great advantage of the Crusades to Trade-Missionaries and Merchants-What was known of the Atlantic Ocean * The Wonderful Island of St. Brendan * Iceland and Greenland * Discoveries on the Coast of Africa-The Madeira Islands-Italy the School of Geography

PART ONE:

CHAPTER ONE: The early Life of Christopher Co1umbus * His first Voyages * Terrible Naval Engagement near Lisbon * His Wonderful Escape * His scheme of crossing the Atlantic * Genoa, Venice, and Portugal refuse to aid him * Home in Genoa-At Palos * Father Marchena and the Convent of Santa Maria de la Raoffera * He starts for the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella

CHAPTER II: Position of the Spanish Kingdoms * Columbus at Court * His Plan rejected * Employed by Queen Isabella * Returns to Palos in order to go to France * Padre Marchena again * Queen Isabella resolves to send him out * The little Fleet fitted out at Palos * The Portuguese endeavor to defeat his Voyage * The open Sea * Alarm of Sailors * Land! * He takes Possession in the Name of Isabella * Voyage Home * The Portuguese again * Enters Lisbon * Received by the King * At Palos * Pinzon and Columbus * The Discoverer proceeds to Court to announce his success

CHAPTER III: Columbus is solemnly received by Ferdinand and Isabella at Barcelona-His second Voyage * Other Nations enter the Field of Discovery * Voyages of Cabot and Vesputius * The Name of the latter gives a Title to the New World * Columbus sails on his third Voyage * His Enemies * Bobadilla * Columbus arrested and sent to Spain in irons * His fourth Voyage * He beholds the Destruction of his Enemies by the Hand of Providence * Reaches the Coast of North Amer1ca * Returns to Spain * Dies at Valladolid * Strange Migrations of his Body * His Tomb at Havana

CHAPTER IV: Attempts to conquer and colonize * The French * The Spaniards * Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth * Vasquez de Ayllon and King Datha * Verrazano and the stories about him * Gomez * The Expedition of Pamphilo de Narvaez * Wonderful escape of Cabeza de Vaca * De Soto and the disastrous end of his splendid Expedition * The French, under Cartier and Roberval, attempt to settle Canada * Story of Margaret Roberval

CHAPTER V: Coligny resolves to establish a Huguenot colony in Florida-Ribaut establishes Charlesfort on Port Royal * Captain Albert de la Pierria * Mutiny * The Survivors saved by the English * Laudonniere builds Fort Caroline on the St. John’s, Florida * A Revolt * Some turn Pirates * Relieved in Distress by Hawkins * Ribaut arrives * * The Spaniards resolve to crush the Colony-Melendez sent out * The Fleets meet at Caroline * Melendez retires and builds St. Augustine * Ribaut pursuing him wrecked * Melendez takes Caroline * His Cruelty * Inhuman Treatment of the Wrecked * The Massacre of the French avenged by Dominic de Gourgues * Subsequent History of Florida * -Raleigh and his Efforts-Tobacco and Potatoes * A Settlement finally made at Jamestown

CHAPTER VI: Permanent Settlements of England and France * Virginia settled at Jamestown * Early Visits of the Spaniards to the Chesapeake * * Powhatan’s Tribe * Captain John Smith * Argall * Pocahontas, her Marriage and Death * First Legislature in America * What Jamestown resembled * Opechancanough’s War and Massacre * The Company suppressed * Virginia a Royal Colony * The People * Spain settles New Mexico * The French in Acadia * Jesuits in Maine * * Romance of La Tour * Madame La Tour * Wars with New England * Acadia conquered, becomes Nova Scotiaw * Quebec founded by Champlain * His Adventurous Career * Character of the Colony * Wars with the Iroquois * * Pieskaret * Montreal * Lambert Closse, the Indian Fighter * The French at Onondaga

. CHAPTER VII ~ FRANCE, SPAIN, AND ENGLAND ATTEMPT TO SETTLE OUR SHORES: New Netherland * Hudson’s Discovery * Christiaensen * Valentine and Orson * Block builds the “Onrust,” the first New York vessel * * New York and Albany Settled * Treaty of Tawasentha * Dutch West India Company * Purchase of New York Island * The New Netherland * Indian Troubles * Captain Underhill and the Battle of Strickland’s Plain * The Swedes on the Delaware * They are reduced by Stuyvesant * Troubles with New England * New Netherland taken by the English

CHAPTER VIII: The Settlement of New England * The Pilgrim Fathers-Landing at Plymouth Rock * Miles Standish * Massachusetts Bay * New Hampshire * Roger Williams and Mrs. Hutchinson * Providence Plantations and Rhode Island Founded * Settlement of Hartford and New Haven * The United Colonies * The Pequod War * John Eliot, the Apostle of the Indians * Perseoution of the Quakers * Settlement of Maryland * Toleration * Indian Relations * Civil War

CHAPTER IX: The Indian Tribes * Their Divisions * * Their Complexion * Habits * Dress * * Houses and Mode of Life * Their Wars * Religion * * No Domestic Animals * Their Care of the Dead * Hieroglyphics * The Mound Builders

PART TWO ~ THE COLONIES FROM THE REIGN OF CHARLES II. TO THE REIGN OF GEORGE III:

CHAPTER I: The English Kings and Parliament begin to take part in American Affairs-General View of the Country * Reign of Charles II. * Connecticut and Rhode Island re ceive Charters * Philip’s Indian War * New York * * Penn founds Pennsylvania * Carolina founded * Virginia and Maryland

CHAPTER II: Reign of James II. * James projects a Union of the Colonies * New York invaded * Connecticut and the Charter Oak * Indian Troubles in Maine * Fall of James * Reign of William III. * Andros seized * Old Governments resumed in New England * William neglects America * Sad Condition of New York * Leisler * * Indian Wars * Waldron * * Lachine * * Schenectady * Salmon Falls * Casco * Phips fails to take Quebec * William sends a Governor to New York * Leisler refuses to submit * Hanged * New Charter for Massachusetts * The Witch Trials * Captain Kidd

CHAPTER III: Reign of Queen Anne * She involves the American Colonies in the War of the Spanish Succession

CHAPTER IV: Reign of George I. * His Neglect of America * The Yamassee War in South Carolina * War with the Abenakis in Maine * Death of Father Rale * * Lovewell’s Fight.

CHAPTER V: Reign of George II. * The English Government prevents American Manufactures and Commerce * Good Effect produced * Oglethorpe and the Settlement of Georgia * Tomochichi * The Cherokee’s Answer * Position of the English Colonies * The French * Law’s Projects * The Natchez * Massacre of the French * Escape of Doutreleau * * The Choctaws attack the Natchez * Louboi’s Operations * The War with Spain * Oglethorpe’s Campaign against St. Augustine * Monteano invades Georgia * * The War with France * The New England Troops take Louisburg * It is restored to France * The French on the Ohio * George Washington * He is sent to occupy the Ohio * Defeats Jumonville * Capitulates at Fort Necessity * The War begins

CHAPTER VI: Reign of George II. (Continued) * Commencement of the Reign of George III. * War with France renewed * General Braddock sent over with English Regulars * His Plans * The attempts to take Fort Du Quesne * Defeated and killed * The unfortunate Acadians * Baron Dieskau sent out by France * * Defeated and taken on Lake George * Montcalm takes Oswego * * Louisburg taken by Boscawen and Amherst * Abercrombie defeated by Montcalm at Ticonderoga * Bradstreet takes Fort Frontenac * William Pitt * Forbes advances on Fort Du Quesne * Sustains a Defeat * French evacuate Pittsburg * Johnson defeats d’Aubry and takes Niagara * Amherst drives the French from Lake Champlain * Wolfe at Quebec * Battle of the Heights of Abraham * Wolfe and Montcalm * De Levi defeats Murray and besieges Quebec * Canada surrenders * Close of the War

CHAPTER VII: Reign of George III. * The Cherokee War * The Treaty of Peace with France * Florida taken in exchange for Havana * Pontiac’s Conspiracy * England resolved to tax America * Stamp Act Riots in America * Battle of Golden Hill * Boston assacre * The Tax on Tea * Resistance of America * The Boston Tea Party * North Carolina Regulators * New Indian War

CHAPTER VIII: State of the Colonies after the Conquest of Canada * England’s Exertions in America * Jealousy of the Colonies * She resolves to tax them, and maintain a large Army among them * The Stamp Act proposed * American Opposition * Its final Passage

PART III ~ THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION:

CHAPTER I: George III. loses America * The Continental Congress * The Boston Port Bi]l * The Quebec Act * The Continental Congress meets * Provincial Congress * Battle of Lexington and Concord * Siege of Boston * Capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point * Congress organizes an Army * George Washington Commander in Chief * Battle of Bunker Hill * The Invasion of Canada * Failure to take Quebec * Death of Montgomery

CHAPTER II: Campaign of 1777 * The Operations in New J ersey * * Cornwallis Confronts Washington at Trenton * Washington’s masterly Movement on Princeton * The Battle of Princeton * Death of General Mercer * British Attacks on Peekskill and Danbury * Death of General Wooster * Meigs at Sag Harbor * Washington in Winter * quarters at Morristown * The glorious Stars and Stripes * Movements of the Armies in New Jersey * The British evacuate the State * Lafayette comes to America * Howe lands his Army at the Head of Chesapeake Bay * Washington meets him at Brandywine * * A hard-fought Battle * Congress leaves Philadelphia * Howe takes Possession of the City * Washington attacks the British at Germantown * A Victory almost gained * Operations on the Delaware * Doherty’s description * The Battle of the Kegs * Washington in Winter quarters at Valley Forge * Burgoyne from Canada, invades New York * * Ticonderoga lost * Schuyler and his Policy * Burgoyne begins to suffer from Want of Provisions * Defeat of Baume and his Hessians at Bennington * General Stark * St. Leger sent to attack Fort Schuyler * Battle of Oriskany * Death of General Herkimer * Arnold relieves the Fort * * Sad Fate of Jane McCrea * * Burgoyne defeated at Stillwater * Another Battle * Burgoyne attempts to retreat * His Surrender * Clinton ascends the Hudson

CHAPTER III: Campaign of 1\'778 * Alliance with France * North‘s Bills of Conciliation * Their Rejection * British Cruelty * Battle of Monmouth * Conduct of General Lee * Arrival of Admiral d’Estaing’s Fleet * Operations in Rhode Island * D’Estaing engages the British and sails off * Retreat of Sullivan * Savage Cruelty of the English * Massacre at Wyoming * Massacre at Paoli * At Little Egg Harbor * The English capture Savannah * Clarke reduces Illinois

CHAPTER IV: Campaign of 1\'779 * Operations in the South * Georgia * Invasion of South Carolina * Battle of Stono Ferry * The British invade Connecticut * Storming of Stony Point * Sullivan’s Expedition against the Six Nations * Penobscot * * Paulus Hook * Commodore Paul Jones * The great Fight between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis * Siege of Savannah by d’Estaing and Lincoln * Spain joins France * Continental Money

CHAPTER V: Campaign of 1780 * Sir Henry Clinton sails south, besieges and takes Charleston * Tarleton begins his career of cruelty * * Lord Cornwallis in the South * Sumter and Marion * Gates sent South by Congress * His rashness * Defeated at Camden * DeKalb * General Greene * King’s Mountain * Patriotic women * Lord Sterling on Staten Island * Battle of Springfield

PART IV – THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION:

CHAPTER I: Effective aid from France on Sea and Land * Zealous and successful Efforts of Lafayette in Favor of America * A Fleet under Admiral do Ternay brings over a French army under the Count de Rochambeau * It lands at Newport * Hopes of America * Washington calls earnestly for Troops to enable him to strike a Decisive Blow * A Traitor * General Arnold in Treaty with the Enemy to deliver up West Point * The Arrest of Major André reveals and Defeats the Treachery * Arnold escapes to the English * Andre tried and executed

CHAPTER II: Campaign of 178l * * Aspect of Affairs * Arnold leads an Expedition to Virginia, and is joined by Phillips * Lafayette sent against him * The Campaign in Carolina * General Morgan’s brilliant Victory at Cowpens * Greene’s famous Retreat * Battle of Guilford Court House * Cornwallis, pursued by Greene, enters Virginia * Lord Rawdon in the Carolinas * Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill * Siege of Ninety-Six * Death of Hayne * Lafayette and Cornwallis in Virginia * Cornwallis at Yorktown * Washington and De Grasse concert a Movement against him * Successful Cooperation * Cornwallis invested * * Surrenders * Arnold ravages Connecticut

PART V ~ THE REPUBLIC UNDER THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND UNDER THE CONSTITUTION:

CHAPTER I: The Return to Peace * Articles of Confederation * Treaties with Foreign Countries * Indian Nations * Northwest Territory organized * A desire for a better Union * A Convention called * The new Constitution * It is accepted by eleven States * Close of the Continental Congress

CHAPTER II ~ GEORGE WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT, 1789-1797: His Cabinet * Peace made with the Creeks and Cherokees * North Carolina and Rhode Island yield when treated as Foreign Countries * The National Debt * War with the Miamies and Western Tribes * Defeat of General Harmar * * Bank of North America * Vermont and Kentucky Admitted * Neetmok * St. Clair defeated by the Western Indians * Washington’s Reelection * The French and their Ambassador, Genet * The Algerine Corsairs * Wayne overthrows the Indians and concludes a Peace * The Whisky Insurrection * Indian Boundaries * Treaty with Spain * Tennessee admitted * Washington’s Farewell Address * He returns to Mount Vernon

CHAPTER III ~ JOHN ADAMS, SECOND PRESIDENT, 1797-1801: Affairs with France * Mississippi Territory organized * * War with France on the Ocean * The Alien and Sedition Acts * Death of General Washington * Seat of Government removed to Washington * Indiana Territory organized * Close of the War with France * Adams defeated in the next election

CHAPTER IV ~ THOMAS JEFFERSON, THIRD PRESIDENT, 1801-1809: War against Tripoli * Purchase of Louisiana * * Lewis and Clarke’s Expedition to Oregon * Troubles with Florida * Burr’s Conspiracy * English Outrages * Attack on the Chesapeake * New States and Territories

CHAPTER V ~ JAMES MADISON, FOURTH PRESIDENT, 1809-1817: Trouble in Pennsylvania * The President and Little Belt * Indian Troubles in the West * War with England * Hull’s Surrender * Operations on the New York Frontiers * Queenstown, La Colle * * Victories at Sea * * Proctor’s Victories in the West * Repulsed at Fort Meigs * Toronto * * The Niagara * Perry’s Victory * Battle of the Thames * Tecumseh slain * The Creek War * General J ackson * Battle Of the Chippewa * Invasion of Maryland * Capture of Washington * English repulsed at Baltimore * Macomb and McDonough at Plattsburg * Jackson in Florida * Battle of New Orleans * * Peace proclaimed * * Final battles at Sea

CHAPTER VI ~ JAMES MONROE, FIFTH PRESIDENT, 1817-1825: Indian Troubles * TIE Seminoles * Seizure of Spanish Forts * Florida Ceded to the United States * The Treaty of Ghent * Alabama * Arkansas, Maine * The Missouri Compromise * Lafayette Revisits the United States * The Monroe Doctrine * West India Pirates Broken up

CHAPTER VII ~ JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, SIXTH PRESIDENT, 1825-1829: Internal Improvements * Death of Adams and J efferson * Indian Troubles * Masonic Excitement

CHAPTER VIII ~ ANDREW JACKSON, SEVENTH PRESIDENT, 1829-1887: Striking Inauguration * * A Bad Policy * Cherokee Difficulties~The United States Bank * Black Hawk War * Nullification in South Carolina * Seminole War * Texas becomes an Independent Republic * Arkansas and Michigan Admitted * The Specie Circular

CHAPTER IX ~ MARTIN VAN BUREN, EIGHTH PRESIDENT, 1837-1841: Bankruptcy caused by Speculation * * The Independent Treasury * * The Seminole War * * Death of Osceola * Troubles in Canada * Wilkes’ Exploring Expedition * The Maine Boundary

CHAPTER X ~ WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, NINTH PRESIDENT, 1841 - JOHN TYLER, TENTH PRESIDENT, 1841-1845: Mr. Tyler vetoes the United States Bank * The Maine Boundary * Rhode Island Troubles * Patroon Troubles * Native American Party * The Mormons * Annexation of Texas

CHAPTER XI ~ JAMES K. POLK, ELEVENTH PRESIDENT, 1845-1849: The Mexican War * Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma * Battle of Monterey * Conquest of California and New Mexico * Santa Anna * Scott at Vera Cruz * Battle of Buena Vista * * Capture of Vera Cruz * Battle of Cerro Gordo * Puebla taken * Contreras and Churubusco * * Battle of Chapultepec * Mexico taken * Last Struggles of the Mexicans * Peace of Guadalupe Hidalgo * Close of Polk’s Administration

CHAPTER XII ~ ZACHARY TAYLOR, TWELFTH PRESIDENT, 1849-1850 - MILLARD FILLMORE, THIRTEENTH PRESIDENT, 1850-1853: Brief Administration of General Taylor * Admission of California * Fillmore as President * Lopez and the Cuban Affairs * Sioux Indians * Kossuth * Sir John Franklin and the Grinnell Expedition * Fishery Question * Death of Clay and Webster * The Telegraph

CHAPTER XIII ~ FRANKLIN PIERCE, FOURTEENTH PRESIDENT, 1853-1857: The Mesilla Valley Difficulty * Growth of the Country * Walker and Nicaragua * The Ostend Manifesto * * Kansas and Nebraska * The Dangerous Excitement as to the Growth of Slavery

CHAPTER XIV ~ JAMES BUCHANAN, FIFTEENTH PRESIDENT, 1857-1861: Kansas * Its Civil War and final Admission as a Free State * Admission of other New States * * Territories Organized * Party Violence * * John Brown and Harper’s Ferry * Four Presidential Tickets * Election of Abraham Lincoln * Secession of South Carolina and six other States * They form the Confederate States of America * Seizure of Forts * Anderson and Fort Sumter * The Ineffectual Attempt to Relieve it

PART VI ~ THE GREAT CIVIL WAR – ABRAHAM LINCOLN, SIXTEENTH PRESIDENT, 1861-1865:

CHAPTER I: Affairs during the Spring and Summer of 1861 * * Lincoln’s Cabinet * Reorganization of the Government, Army and Navy * * Attempt to relieve Sumter * Its Bombardment * The first call for Troops * Replies of the States * * Blockade of the Southern ports * East Tennessee and West Virginia for the Union * * Missouri saved by Lyon’s energy * First movement of United States Troops * Ellsworth * * McClellan in Western Virginia * Battles of Philippi, Rich Mountain, and Carrick’s Ford * Big Bethel * Bull Run * General Lyon and the Battles of Carthage, Dug Spring, Wilson’s Creek, and Lexington * * First operations against the Coast of the Confederate States

CHAPTER II: The War in the West * Minor Operations * * Battle of Belmont * Grant’s First Action * Polk Crosses to Relieve his Men * Desperate Fighting * Grant Succeeds in Reaching his Gunboats * The Port Royal Expedition * A Foothold in South Carolina * Operations with no Great Result * The Slidell * Mason Affair * Commodore Wilkes * Attitude of the British Government * Slidel1 and Mason Given up * Pope’s Missouri Campaign * The Confederate Line in the West * Preparations to Break it

PART VI – THE CIVIL WAR CONTINUED – ABRAHAM LINCOLN, SIXTEENTH PRESIDENT, 1861-1865:

CHAPTER III: Buell’s Campaign * Battle of Mill Spring * Zollicoffer Defeated by Thomas and Killed * The Confederate Line Broken * Grant and Porter‘ Move * * Fort Henry Bombarded by the Fleet, and Reduced before Grant Arrives * The Army and Fleet Move upon Fort Donelson * The Fleet Repulsed with Loss * Grant’s Attack * Battle of Fort Donelson * Desperate Fighting * The Confederate Commanders * The Surrender of the Fort * The new Confederate Line * Island No. 10 Occupied by Them * * It is Reduced * The War in Arkansas * Battle of Pea Ridge * Operations on the Coast * The Burnside Expedition * Capture of Fort Pulaski * Butler’s Expedition to Louisiana

CHAPTER IV: The invasion of New Mexico by Sibley * Canby’s Defence * The Fleet on the Mississippi * The Ram Fleet under Colonel Ellet * Memphis Yields * * Butler’s Louisiana Campaign * Farragut’s Naval Battle * * Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip * New Orleans Taken * The Fleet Ascends the River * First Operations against Vicksburg * The Chesapeake Naval Battle between the Merrimac and Monitor * The Confederate Government * * Stanton * Shields defeats J ackson * McClellan‘s Peninsula Campaign * The Battle of Pittsburg Landing

CHAPTER V: McClellan’s Campaign against Richmond * Operations in the Shenandoah Valley * The Seven Days’ Battles * Mechanicsville * Fair Oaks * Gaines’ Mill * White * Oak Swamp * * Malvern Hill * McClellan Retires to Harrison’s Landing * Halleck made General * in * Chief * McClellan Embarks for the Potomac * * Pope\'s vainglorious Promises * Doherty’s description * Banks Worsted at Cedar Mountain * Jackson in Pope’s Rea.r * Second Battle of Bull Run * Pope not Supported by McClellan * He Retreats to Washington and Resigns * * Colonel Cantwell * Lee Enters Maryland * Outgenerals McClellan and takes Harper’s Ferry * Battles of South Mountain and Antietam * Lee Retreats * McClellan Pursues * He is Relieved

CHAPTER VI: ‘The Operations in Tennessee, Kentucky, and M1ssissippi * * Advance of General Bragg * Battles of Richmond and Munfordsville * A Confederate Governor of Kentucky Inaugurated * * Buell in the Field * Bragg Beaten at Perryville * Retreats through Cumberland Gap * Rosecrans Defeats Price at Iuka, and Van Dorn at Cor1nth * Rosecrans’ Winter Campaign * Morgans Raid * * Bragg Defeated at Stone River * Minor Operations

CHAPTER VII: Operations against Vicksburg * Grant\'s First Attempt Defeated by Van Dorn\'s Capture of Holly Springs * General Sherman Aided by Porter’s Gunboats * Attempts to Storm it, but is Repulsed with Heavy Loss * Grant‘s Various Attempts * He goes down the River * Battles of Port Gibson. Raymond. Jackson. Champion Hills, Big Black * Vicksburg Invested * * Pemberton Surrenders * Grant drives Johnston from Jackson * Fight at Milliken’s Bend * * Operat1ons in Louisiana and Texas under General Banks * His Repulse at Port Hudson * Second Attack * Gardiner Surrenders * Minor Operations

CHAPTER VIII: The Army of the Potomac under General Burnside * He Crosses the Rappahannock and Attacks Lee’s Position at Marye’s Heights * He is Repulsed with heavy Loss, and Recrosses the River * Removed when about to Renew the Attack * General Hooker takes Command * He Crosses the Rappahannock * Battle of Chancellorsville * His Right Wing turned by Jackson, who is Killed * Desperate Fighting * Hooker Stunned by a Cannon * ball at Chancellorsville * Sedgwick, Operating below, Attacked by Lee’s whole Force and Driven across the River * * Hooker Recrosses * Longstreet * Lee Flanks Hooker’s Right * Milroy Surprised at Winchester * * Lee Crosses the Potomac * Hooker, unable to Obtain the Garrison of Harper’s Ferry, Resigns * Meade placed in Command * Movements of the Armies * They come in Collision at Gettysburg * The Battle * General Reynolds Killed and his Corps Driven through the Town * The Halt on Cemetery Hill * Sickles takes a wrong Position * Hancock * Meade Arrives * Sickles Driven back * The Terrible Charge of Lee’s whole Line * * Its Repulse * Lee Retreats * Manassas Gap * Warren and Hill * The Armies Resume their old Positions * Mine Run * Droop Mountain

CHAPTER IX: Morgan’s Raid through Indiana and Ohio * The War in Tennessee * Rosecrans flanks Bragg and drives him to Lafayette * Bragg Faces * Battle of Chickamauga * Rosecrans Defeated * Grant succeeds him * Bragg sends Longstreet against Burnside * Campbell’s Station * * Longstreet Repulsed * Cavalry Raids * Grant’s Campaign * Hooker Crosses the Tennessee * Wauhatchie * Lookout Mountain * Mission Ridge * Sherman * Cleburne checks Hooker at White * Oak Ridge * Knoxville Relieved * The War in Missouri, Arkansas, and Indian Territory * Marmaduke at Springfield, Hartsville, Batesville, and Cape Girardeau * * Coffey’s Operations * Quantrell’s Cruelties * Indian Operations * The Sioux War

CHAPTER X: Operations from North Carolina to Florida in 1862-3 * Capture of Fort Pulaski * Jacksonville taken and abandoned * Hunter repulsed at Secessionville * The Nashville * Dupont Repulsed * Ironclad Raid from Charleston * Attack on Fort Sumter * The Swamp Angel * Wagner taken * Hill at Newberne * Vallandigham’s case * The Draft * Riots in New York * Negro Soldiers

CHAPTER XI: An Offer of Amnesty * Gilmore’s Operations in Florida * Seymour defeated at Olustee * A Convention at Jacksonville in favor of the United States * Unsuccessful Operations in South Carolina * A Stirring Campaign in North Carolina on Land and Water * Banks’ Red River Expedition * He retires * The Fleet carried over the Rapids by Engineering Skill * Operations in Texas and Arkansas * Rosecrans in Missouri * Price’s last Attempt to carry the State * * Battles at Pilot Knob, Little and Big Blue, Little Osage and Newtonia

CHAPTER XII: General Grant in Virginia * He takes Command of the Armies * * The Army of the Potomac reorganized * Kilpatrick sent against Richmond * Death of Dahlgren * Grant fights the Battle of the Wilderness * Spottsylvania * Hancock storms the Lines * His Captures * Sheridan and J. E. B. Stuart * Butler operating south of the James *Action at Port Walthall Junction * Beauregard attacks Butler * Gunboats blown up * Grant at the North Anne * * A sharp Action * Burnside defeated * Repulse at Cold Harbor * * Butler’s Operations against Petersburg * Meade at the Weldon Railroad * Defeat of Hancock and Gregg * Close of the Campaign of 1864 * * Jones and Avery in the Shenandoah Valley * Early threatens Washington * Sheridan sent against him * Battles of Opequan and Fisher’s Hill * Early surprises Crook at Cedar Creek * Sheridan’s Ride * A Defeat turned into a Victory by a single Man

CHAPTER XIII: .Sufferings of Prisoners * Andersonville * Forrest’s Raids * * He takes Fort Pillow * Fearful Atrocities * He routs Sturgis * Is beaten by A. J. Smith * Various Actions * Morgan’s last Raid * Pursued and killed * Sherman’s Campaign against Johnston * His three Armies * Hooker takes Resaca * Davis takes Rone * Fight at Pumpkinvine Creek * New Hopes * Dallas * Allatoona * Sherman repulsed at Kenesaw * Again flanks Johnston * Hood supersedes Johnston * He twice attacks Sherman and is repulsed * Stoneman’s Failrne * Hardee defeated * Hood abandons Atlanta * Sherman occupies it, and expels its Inhabitants * Hood endeavors to draw Sherman out of Georgia * French defeated by Corse at Allatoona * Thomas sent to defend Tennessee * Sherman prepares to march to the Sea

CHAPTER XIV: The Confederates on the Sea * The Oreto, Alabama, Florida * Capture of the Revenue Cutter Chesapeake * Aid given by England and her Provinces * Capture of the Florida and Japan * * Engagement between the Alabama and the Kearsarge * The Alabama sunk * Farragut in Mobile Harbor destroys the Confederate Fleet.

CHAPTER XV: The Presidential Election * Movements for Peace * The Negotiations at Hampton Roads * Forrest’s last Raid * Hood advances, and Thomas falls back to Nashville * bloody Battle at Franklin * * The Battle at Nashville * Thomas attacks Hood on the right and left, and carries his first Line * He storms Overton’s Hill * * Hood routed and driven across the Tennessee * * Breckinridge driven into North Carolina * Saltville taken

CHAPTER XVI: Sherman’s March to the Sea * Mode of Proceeding * Fights on the way * Before Savannah * Hazen storms Fort McAllister * Sherman meets Foster and Dahlgren * Savannah evacuated * Sherman’s Christmas * Present to President Lincoln * Operations to cooperate with him * He crosses the Edisto * Actions at Branchville, Orangeburg, and on the Congaree * Columbia surrendered * The ConFlagration * Hardee evacuates Charleston * The Stars and Stripes raised at Sumter * Sherman enters North Carolina * Fayetteville * Actions at Averysborough and Bentonville * Goldsborough * The Expeditions against Fort Fisher * It is carried at last * Fall of Wilmington * Hoke’s Repulse * Wilson’s brilliant Cavalry Campaign in Alabama * Canby reduces Mobile

CHAPTER XVII: The Close of the War * Grant begins operations * The Confederate Rams in the James * Sheridan in the Valley again * He crushes Early * Wheels around Lee’s Lines and reports to Grant * Lee’s bold Dash * He takes Fort Steadman * Grant’s Advance on the Confederate Lines * Sheridan at Five * Forks * General Assault by Grant * Forts Gregg and Alexander carried * Lee defeated, and A. P. Hill killed * He telegraphs to Davis that Richmond must be evacuated * The Confederate Capital in Confusion and Flames * Weitzel enters it * Lee’s Retreat * Sheridan heads him off * Grant proposes a Surrender * Lee hesitates * * Appomattox Court House * Surrender of Lee’s Army of Virginia

CHAPTER XVIII: Abraham Lincoln’s Second Term * His Inauguration * He receives the News of the Fall of Richmond * He visits that City * His last Proclamations * He is assassinated in Ford’s Theatre, Washington, by John Wilkes Booth * Simultaneous Attempts to assassinate Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State * Death of Mr. Lincoln * Effect throughout the Country * Its terribly disastrous Consequences to the South

CHAPTER XIX ~ ANDREW JOHNSON, SEVENTEENTH PRESIDENT, 1865-1869: Sketch of President Johnson * His Inauguration * Investigation into Lincoln’s Assassination * Pursuit of Booth, his Capture and Death * The Attempt to Assassinate Mr. Seward * A Conspiracy * Arrest of several * The bloody Court-martial * Hanging * The Conclusion of the War * The Surrender of J ohnston * * Other Confederate Bodies * Jefferson Davis attempts to escape * Pursued and Captured * Imprisoned, but never tried * The Confederate Flag on the Ocean * The last of the British * built Ships * President Johnson and Congress * Their different Views as to the Treatment of the South * A Series of Collisions * Bitter Feeling of the Republican Party against the Man whom they had raised to Ofiice * President Johnson’s Vetoes * Congress disregards them * Assumes to be the Government * One House of Congress impeaches the President, whom they had treated with every Dishonor * The other tries him * The great Impeachment Trial * Acquittal of the President * The South ruined by oppressive Reconstruction Acts * Fenian Affairs * Attempts to invade Canada * Prompt Action of Government * The Atlantic Cable * Close of Johnson’s Administration

CHAPTER XX ~ ULYSSES S. GRANT, EIGHTEENTH PRESIDENT, 1869-1877: President Grant * His Cabinet * Reconstruction of Virginia * Mississippi and Texas * The Fifteenth Amendment * Proposed Annexation of St. Domingo * The great ConFlagration at Chicago * * Settlement of the Alabama Claims * The Presidential election * Death of Mr. Greeley * The Modoc War * Trouble with Spain in regard to the Seizure of the Virginius and Murder of her Crew and Passengers at Santiago de Cuba * * The Louisiana Troubles * Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia * Co1orado admitted as a State * Trial of Belknap, Secretary of War * Nez Percés and Sioux War * Presidential Election * Disputed States * * Electoral Commission.

CHAPTER XXI ~ RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, NINETEENTH PRESIDENT, 1877-1881: His Cabinet * Conciliatory Policy toward the South * Financial Troubles * Strikes and Riots * The House of Representatives resists the use of Military Power at Elections * The Ute War * The Yellow Fever * The Chinese Question * Decrease of the Debt * Presidential Election

CHAPTER XXII ~ JAMES A. GARFIELD, TWENTIETH PRESIDENT, 1881 - CHESTER A. ARTHUR, TWENTY-FIRST PRESIDENT, 1881-1885: Garfield’s Cabinet * Difficulty as to New York Appointments * * He is Shot by Guiteau * His Sufferings and Death * Foreign Sympathy * Arthur’s Policy * Trial of Guiteau * Apportionment of Representatives * * The Suppression of Polygamy in Utah * Arctic Explorations * The Brooklyn Bridge * Election of Cleveland.

CHAPTER XXIII ~ GROVER CLEVELAND, TWENTY-SECOND PRESIDENT, 1885: His Cabinet * Gen. Grant put on the Retired List * His Death at Mt. McGregor * Massacre of Chinese in Wyoming * Recognition of the International Association of the Congo * The Rights of American Fishermen questioned by Canada * American Fishing Vessels seized * Death of Vice * President Hendricks

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