The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct. Volume 2 of 2
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Eggleston George Cary. The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct. Volume 2 of 2
CHAPTER XXXI. The Struggle for Emancipation
CHAPTER XXXII. Burnside's Fredericksburg Campaign
CHAPTER XXXIII. Halleck's Treatment of Grant
CHAPTER XXXIV. Grant at Corinth
CHAPTER XXXV. Bragg's Campaign Against Louisville
CHAPTER XXXVI. Fall and Winter Campaigns at the West and South
CHAPTER XXXVII. The Chancellorsville Campaign
CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Gettysburg Campaign
CHAPTER XXXIX. The Campaign of Vicksburg
CHAPTER XL. The State of Things After Gettysburg
CHAPTER XLI. The Struggle for Charleston
CHAPTER XLII. The Campaigns of Chickamauga and Chattanooga
CHAPTER XLIII. Grant's Strategy – The Red River Campaign – Fort Pillow, Etc
CHAPTER XLIV. Grant's Plan of Campaign
CHAPTER XLV. The Battles in the Wilderness
CHAPTER XLVI. Spottsylvania and the Bloody Angle
CHAPTER XLVII. Cold Harbor and on to Petersburg
CHAPTER XLVIII. The Confederate Cruisers
CHAPTER XLIX. Sherman's Campaign against Atlanta
CHAPTER L. The Bay Fight at Mobile
CHAPTER LI. The Mine Explosion at Petersburg
CHAPTER LII. Early's Invasion of Pennsylvania
CHAPTER LIII. Operations at Petersburg and Sheridan's Valley Campaign
CHAPTER LIV. The Presidential Campaign of 1864
CHAPTER LV. Sherman at Atlanta
CHAPTER LVI. Sherman's "March to the Sea"
CHAPTER LVII. Hood's Campaign
CHAPTER LVIII. Preparations for the Decisive Blow
CHAPTER LIX. The End
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It has already been related that at the end of the battle of Sharpsburg, or Antietam, neither army cared to renew the contest. The two confronted each other within deadly firing distance for the space of twenty-four hours, doing nothing whatever. Apparently each had so far had enough of such fighting that neither cared to take the initiative for its renewal, yet each was ready enough to meet the other should that other care to assail it.
At the end of this waiting time Lee slowly retired towards the Potomac, McClellan not caring to pursue, and finally crossing the river the Confederates went into camp near Winchester.
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In a blind rage Burnside seemed unable to comprehend what his subordinates saw clearly enough. He insisted upon sending Hooker's command also into that slaughter pen. They rushed forward, – four thousand as brave fellows as ever fought in battle – and a few minutes later seventeen hundred of them lay stretched upon the field, their bodies riddled with Confederate bullets, while their comrades, unable to achieve the impossible, fell back as the remnants of the other divisions had done before.
The Confederate war furnished two conspicuous manifestations of supreme heroism on the part of large bodies of men – one upon one side, the other upon the other. Pickett's charge at Gettysburg was one of these. This series of six charges up Marye's Heights was the other.
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