The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct. Volume 1 of 2
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Eggleston George Cary. The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct. Volume 1 of 2
PART I. THE CAUSES OF THE WAR
INTRODUCTION. The Magnitude of the Confederate War
CHAPTER I. A Public, not a Civil, War
CHAPTER II. The Growth of the National Idea
CHAPTER III. The "Irrepressible Conflict"
CHAPTER IV. The Annexation of Texas
CHAPTER V. The Compromise of 1850
CHAPTER VI. Uncle Tom's Cabin
CHAPTER VII. The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, The Kansas-Nebraska Bill and Squatter Sovereignty
CHAPTER VIII. The Kansas War – The Dred Scott Decision – John Brown's Exploit at Harper's Ferry
CHAPTER IX. The Election of 1860
CHAPTER X. The Birth of War
BOOK II. THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR
CHAPTER XI. The Reduction of Fort Sumter
CHAPTER XII. The Attitude of the Border States
CHAPTER XIII "Pepper Box" Strategy
CHAPTER XIV. Manassas
CHAPTER XV. The Paralysis of Victory
CHAPTER XVI. The European Menace
CHAPTER XVII. Border Operations
CHAPTER XVIII. The Blockade – The Conquest of the Coast and the Neglect to Follow up the Advantage thus Gained
CHAPTER XIX. The Era of Incapacity
CHAPTER XX. The First Appearance of Grant
CHAPTER XXI. The Situation Before Shiloh
CHAPTER XXII. Between Manassas and Shiloh – The Situation in Virginia
CHAPTER XXIII. Shiloh
CHAPTER XXIV. New Madrid and Island Number 10
CHAPTER XXV. Farragut at New Orleans
CHAPTER XXVI. McClellan's Peninsular Advance
CHAPTER XXVII. Jackson's Valley Campaign
CHAPTER XXVIII. The Seven Days' Battles
CHAPTER XXIX. The Second Manassas Campaign
CHAPTER XXX. Lee's First Invasion of Maryland
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During the years from 1861 to 1865, one of the greatest wars in all history was fought in this country.
There were in all three million three hundred and seventy-eight thousand men engaged in the fighting of it.
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Lawyers' quibblings, logic chopping, and all arguments drawn from history meant nothing to the great majority of a people who had been born and bred under the Union and had imbibed with their mothers' milk a sentiment of undying loyalty, not to any state or any doctrine or any theory, but to the Nation in whose history they regarded themselves as entitled to feel personal and ancestral pride and affection.
Thus while the historical argument was clearly with those who maintained the right of the states to assert their authority as superior to that of the Union, that argument was addressed in large part to ears that had been rendered deaf to it by the echoes of the national glory. While the Union had indeed been at the first a hesitating experiment, it had become by time and by national achievement a nationality for the maintenance of which vast populations were ready and willing and even eager to risk their lives.
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