Table of Contents Descriptions

PART II.

CHAPTER I.

Commencement of President Lincoln's Administration— Retrospect and Summary of Public Events— Fort Sumter.....197

CHAPTER II.

The Loyal Uprising— The Border Slave States— Summary of Events— Battle of Bull Run.....227

CHAPTER III.

Extra Session of Congress- President Lincoln's Messages- Rebel Affairs at Richmond.....254

CHAPTER IV.

Military Reorganization— Resume of Events to the December Session of Congress— Action in Regard to " Contrabands" and Slavery.....274

CHAPTER V.

The President's Message, December, 1861— Proceedings of Congress— Emancipation— Confiscation— Messages and Addresses of Mr. Lincoln.....293

CHAPTER VI.

Military Events— Inaction on the Potomac— Western Campaign— Capture of New Orleans.....320

CHAPTER VII.

Military Events in the East— The Peninsular Campaign.....335

CHAPTER VIII.

Campaign of the Army of Virginia— Withdrawal of the Army of the Potomac from the Peninsula— First Invasion of Maryland— McClellan Superseded.....384

CHAPTER IX.

A New Era Inaugurated— Emancipation— Message of the President— Last Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress.....410

CHAPTER X.

Summary of Military Movements in the West— Army of the Potomac— General Hooker Superseded— Gen. Meade takes Command— Battle of Gettysburg.....437

CHAPTER XI.

The Popular Voice in 1863— First Session of the Thirty-eighth Congress— Amnesty Proclamation— Message— Orders, Letters, and Addresses— Popular Sentiment iu 1864 —Appointment of Lieutenant General Grant— Opening of the Military Campaigns of 1864— Conclusion.....451