of their several corps.-Impediments, and slowness of their movements.-
Sykes finds himself in advance of the rest of the army.-He encounters
McLaws near the Newton House.-Description of the position.-A sharp
engagement takes place about noon.-Numerical superiority of the Con-
federates.-The combat spreads.—Arrival of Rodes' division.-Jackson
to have nineteen brigades.-Hooker could easily hold him in check.-He
suddenly orders a retreat.-Astonishment of the generals and Union
soldiers.-Fatal and unaccountable decision.-Jackson invests the Fed-
erals in the forest.-Hooker summons a council of war.-Consequences
of his error.-Description of his positions.-They are bad.-He sends for
the First corps.-Sedgwick's instructions.-Lee joins Jackson.-Daring
project of the latter adopted by Lee.-Position of the Confederates on the
evening of the 1st of May.-Jackson commences his flank march on the
morning of the 2d.-Preceded by Stuart, he makes a wide détour.-Diffi-
culties of his march.-Lee's precarious position.-The Federals perceive
Jackson's column.-Inaction of Hooker.-He believes the enemy to be
retreating, and orders Sickles to follow him.-Combat near Catherine
Furnace.-Mistake of the Federals.-Jackson continues his march.-
Fight between Sickles and McLaws.-Jackson reconnoitres Howard's
positions.-Description of these positions.-Weakness and imprudent
security of the Eleventh corps.-Jackson's preparations for an attack.—
Silent march in line of battle through the forest.-Surprise and rout of the
Federals. They are eagerly pursued.-Their efforts to re-form.-Devens'
division is crushed.-Jackson attacks Schurz at Dowdall's Tavern.-His
lines get mixed up, but carry the position.-Schurz's disaster.-Stein-
wehr's division is struck in its turn.-Positions conquered by Jackson.—
Howard sends to Sickles for assistance.-Dangerous situation of the
latter.-Obstacles at Chancellorsville.—Precipitate return of Sickles.—
Jackson continues to advance.-Pleasonton arrives in time to hold him in
check.-Charge of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania cavalry.-Death of Kee-
nan of the Eighth Pennsylvania cavalry —The artillery brought together
by Pleasonton checks Jackson.-The Confederates resume the offensive.—
They encounter the Third corps. Disorder and exhaustion in the Confed-
erate lines. They halt.-Jackson brings Hill forward to the front.-
He makes a reconnoissance ahead of the skirmishers.-He meets those of
the enemy. In returning he is seriously wounded by his own soldiers.-
The Federals advance.-Jackson is carried off.—Arrival of Berry's divis-
ion on the right of the Federals.—Defensive dispositions of Slocum.—
Sickles attacks the Confederates.—Terrible combat between Birney and
Hill. The latter is wounded.-Jackson on the point of being captured.-
The Federals have the advantage.-The conflict ceases at midnight.—
Positions conquered by Birney.-Berry has been less fortunate on the
right. Stuart, while at Ely's Ford, called upon to take command of
Jackson's corps.-He adopts his first measures.-Lee's demonstration
during the evening.
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CHAPTER II.

CHANCELLORSVILLE.

Gravity of Hooker's situation.-Position of his army on the evening of the
2d. He ought to take the offensive on the morning of the 3d.-The Con-
federate army is divided; the least check would be fatal.-Hooker has the
choice between Chancellorsville and Marye's Heights.-He remains im-
movable, and directs Sedgwick to take the offensive.-Stuart's position on
the 3d at daybreak.-Hooker recalls Sickles to Fairview.-Lee's instruc-
tions to his lieutenants.-Stuart's first movement.-He attacks Sickles in
retreat.-Birney at Fairview.-Stuart masses his artillery against him.—
He advances on the left.-He crosses Lewis' Creek.-Sickles repulses
him. The battle rages along the whole line.-New attack of the Con-
federates.— After a desperate struggle they are again repulsed.—Stuart
brings his reserves into action.-Success of the Confederates on the
right. They are soon checked and driven back.—The Confederates
halt.-Lee's attack upon Hooker's left.-Combat between McLaws and
Hancock. Situation of both parties at nine o'clock in the morning.—
Hooker's inactivity.-Sickles and Slocum address him in vain.—Fatal
immobility of one half of his army.-Stuart cannonades Chancellors-
ville.-Hooker is wounded.—The Federal army is without a chief.—The
Southerners attack Fairview once more.-Lee with the Second Confeder-
ate corps.-Vigorous attack from the Confederate right.-The Federal line
gives way everywhere at once.-Concentric fire upon Chancellorsville.—
Splendid retreat of Sickles and Hancock.-The Federals abandon Chan-
cellorsville. Their new position.-Lee prepares to attack them.-He
is stopped by the news received from Early.-Task imposed upon Sedg-
wick by Hooker.-Position of the Confederates on the 1st of May in front
of the latter.-Hooker's error.-Sedgwick occupies Fredericksburg on the
morning of the 2d.-He wastes much time before approaching Marye's
Hill.-Early's arrangements.-Sedgwick decides at last to attack him.—
The Confederate position is speedily carried.—Early's line is pierced.--
He falls back to the southward with part of his forces; Wilcox takes the
remainder westward.-Sedgwick's slowness.-Wilcox delays him, and takes
position at Salem Church.-Lee with the First corps leaves Hooker to go
to the relief of Wilcox.-He reaches Salem Church before Sedgwick.--
The battle opens at once.—A desperate struggle brought to a close by dark-
ness.-Sedgwick's movement is checked.-Strong position of the Confeder-
ates.-The Federals may yet rectify their mistakes.-Different plans pre-
sented to Hooker's consideration.-His wound incapacitates him, for the
present, from resuming command.—The Federal army is paralyzed.—
Warren visits the Sixth corps.-Confused exchange of despatches between
Hooker and Sedgwick.—Difficult situation of the latter.-Hooker, having
no longer any idea of resuming the offensive, remains on the defensive.—
Hooker waits in vain for Lee's attack on the 4th.-The latter takes nearly
all his forces against Sedgwick.-Stuart with three divisions detains
Hooker. Early recaptures Marye's Hill.—He is repulsed before Taylor's

Hill-Position of Sedgwick.-Lee attacks him eastward and southward

at the same time.-Anderson's success.-McLaws makes a movement,

but too late.-Night puts an end to the combat.-Sedgwick retires

upon Banks' Ford.-Hooker might remedy his errors by joining him.—

He gives him contradictory orders.-The First corps recrosses the river.—

The game is up for the Federals.-Hooker decides to retreat.-Council

of war. A violent storm.-The rise in the river endangers the bridges.-

Retreat of the army.-Exhaustion of the Confederates.-They rest on the

4th.-The Federals cross the Rappahannock again in great haste.--The

passage is effected by six o'clock in the morning.-Lee returns to Freder

icksburg.-Death of Jackson on the 10th of May.-Losses of both armies.

-The absence of their cavalry is the first cause of the defeat of the Fed-

erals.-Hooker too confident of victory.--Progress of the Federal cav-

alry. Stoneman's raid.—Inaction of Averell.-W. H. F. Lee goes to Gor-

donsville. Stoneman at Louisa Court-house the 2d of May.-Stoneman's

delay. He divides his forces on the evening of the 2d at Thompson's

Four Corners.-Wyndham cannot destroy the bridge at Columbia.-Gregg,

at Hanover Junction, fails to destroy the bridge of the North Anna.-

Stoneman recrosses the Rapidan on the 7th.-Kilpatrick appears before

Richmond. He reaches Gloucester Point on the 7th.-Davis, after de-

stroying Ashland Station, had arrived there the day before.—An attempt

of Mosby against Warrenton on the 3d of May.-Stoneman has obtained

no satisfactory results.-Situation of the Federal army.---Responsibili-

ties.-Dismissals.....
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CHAPTER III.

SUFFOLK.

Operations along the coasts of the Southern States during the first months
of the year 1863.-Division of this chapter.-D. H. Hill and Long-
street sent into North Carolina and South-eastern Virginia.-Positions of
the Federals.-Keyes in the peninsula of Virginia.-Peck at Suffolk.-
Engagement at Kelly's Store on January 30.-Foster occupies the inland
sea.-Small naval operations during the winter.-Longstreet to attack
Suffolk.-Foster takes twelve thousand men to Port Royal.-Great mis-
take.-Foster returns to New Berne.-Demonstration of the Confederates
against Fort Anderson, March 13.-Hill invests Washington on Tar
River, March 30.-Foster comes to the rescue.-The reinforcements can-
not reach the place.-Steps taken to raise the blockade.-Hill raises the
siege April 16.-He joins Longstreet.-Peck ordered to send three thou-
sand men to Foster. He learns the approach of Longstreet before their
departure.-Description of Suffolk.-Longstreet wants to take it by sur-
prise.-Peck is on his guard.—The navy comes to his assistance.-Hanson
and Cushing.-Longstreet declines to make an assault.-He wishes to force
the passage of the Nansemond.-Strong demonstrations April 13.-Combat
fought at Mount Washington.-General Getty, on the 14th, silences the

Confederate batteries.-The gunboats reappear at Suffolk.-The battery
of Hill's Point.-Fruitless attempt to destroy it.-Getty takes possession of
it on the evening of the 19th.-Longstreet refuses to cross the Nansemond.-
Reconnoissances of Cushing at Chuckatuck, and Corcoran toward Eden-
ton.-Artillery-duels favorable to the Unionists.-Arrival of Hill with
large guns; everything ready for the attack.-First news of the battle of
Chancellorsville.-Longstreet, called back to Richmond, raises the siege
on the 3d of May. He is not eagerly pursued, and reaches Richmond on
the 10th.-Small naval operations in Virginia.-The Federal South
Atlantic squadron.-The Montauk.-It attacks Fort McAllister.-The
Confederates have two iron-clad vessels at Charleston.-Position of the
naval division blockading this port.-Ingraham attacks it January 31.—
He seizes the Mercedita.-The Palmetto State and the Chicora attack
the Keystone State.-The Union vessel disabled.—She escapes from the
Confederates.-Ingraham retires.-Losses of the Federals.-The Confed-
erates pretend to have raised the blockade.-The Federals lose the Isaac
Smith.-Arrival of the new monitors at Port Royal.-The Montauk
destroys the Nashville February 28.-The new monitors attack the fort
March 3.-Results of this experience.-Occupation of Jacksonville by
negro troops.-Jacksonville is evacuated March 31.-Plunder and dis-
orders. Preparing to attack Charleston.-DuPont has nine iron-clads.-
Preparations for defence.—Generals Beauregard and Ripley.-The forts
of Charleston. The batteries Gregg and Wagner.-The three lines of
defence. Obstacles among the passes.-Armament of the works.-Diffi-
culties of the task imposed upon DuPont.-He determines to reduce Fort
Sumter. Struggle for supremacy between the naval and land artillery.—
The Federal iron-clads cross the bar April 6.-DuPont gives the signal
of attack on the 7th.-Imposing spectacle.-Opening fire.-The New Iron-
sides works badly.-The monitors stopped by floating obstacles.-They
fight under steam in a circle of fire.-Slowness of their fire-The mon-
itors begin to suffer.-The Weehawken is withdrawn, followed by the
Passaic.-Damages to the monitors.-Injuries to Fort Sumter.-Retreat
of the monitors.-Loss of the Keokuk.-Results of the fight more favor-
able to the monitors than the Federals supposed.-Disappointment of the
Federals.-DuPont declines making another attack.-He recrosses the
bar on the 11th. The Secretary of the Navy orders him to renew the
attack. He refuses.-A new plan of attack by land and sea.-General
Gillmore replaces Hunter June 2.-The English steamer Fingal becomes
the Atlanta. Her construction and armament.-She waits till June for a
favorable opportunity to put to sea.-Exaggerated hopes of the Confed-
erates about the Atlanta.-She attacks two monitors on the 17th of June,
and is speedily disabled.-She strikes her flag.-Triumph of the fifteen-
inch guns.-DuPont is superseded by Admiral Dahlgren.-Naval ope-
rations in the Gulf of Mexico.—Small expeditions on the coast of Flor-
ida.-Commodore Bell takes the place of Renshaw west of the Missis-
sippi. He arrives before Galveston January 10.-Entrance of the Ala-
bama on the scene.-Operations of this privateer since November, 1862.—
Negligence of the Federal government.-The Alabama evades all pur-

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suit. She visits the Bahamas and hides on the coast of Yucatan.--She
appears suddenly before Galveston, and is chased by the Hatteras.-She
draws the latter to some distance, and, after a brief engagement, sinks
her.—The raising of the Galveston blockade is of no use to the Confed-
erates.-The Federal government does not recognize it.-The Confed-
erates burn two Federal vessels before Sabine City. They capture the
Barataria on Lake Maurepas.-Burning of the Preble before Pensacola,
April 27.-Small operations in Western Virginia.-Jones occupies Phil-
ippi and Morgantown, March 25th and 27th.-Encounter at Fayette
Court-house......

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BOOK II.-THE MISSISSIPPI.

CHAPTER I.

THE BAYOUS.

The capture of Vicksburg the main object of the Federals in the West.-
Grant's forces. He is preparing to reach Vicksburg by water.-Impossi-
bility of turning this place.-Port Hudson too far.-The fleet to be intro-
duced below Vicksburg and above Haines' Bluff.-The bayous of the
Mississippi.-Williams' canal.-Porter trying to find a pas-age to reach
Yazoo River. The arsenal of Yazoo City.-The Queen of the West passes
the Vicksburg batteries, February 2, 1863.-She fails to destroy the
Arkansas.—The Indianola passes in her turn.-Ellet, without waiting for
her, reascends Red River on the Queen of the West.-Capture of the Era
No. 5.-The Queen of the West falls into the hands of the Confederates,
and, in conjunction with the Webb, attacks and captures the Indianola.—
The Williams canal destroyed by a freshet and abandoned.-Efforts to
open a passage along the left bank of the Mississippi.-Opening of the
Yazoo pass.-An expedition penetrates it, February 21.-After strenuous
efforts it enters Cold Water, March 2.-Situation of the Federal army.—
Preparing to sustain the expedition to Yazoo Pass.-The course of Yazoo
River, and Fort Pemberton.-The gunboats attack the latter without
effect.-An artificial inundation against the fort.-Return of the expe-
dition. Its critical situation.-Porter leads a new expedition, and Sher-
man prepares to sustain it.-Description of the country he has to trav-
erse.--Porter's difficulties.-Destruction of cotton along the route.-On
the 20th of March, Porter is stopped near Rolling Fork.-Sherman is not
able to join him, the road behind him being obstructed.-He determines to
return.--Return of the Milliken's Bend expedition, March 27.--Quinby
joins the expedition to Yazoo Pass.-He again attacks Fort Pemberton
in vain.—The expedition is recalled by Grant.-The Confederates destroy
the Indianola.-Preparations of Banks and Farragut to attack Port Hud-
son. On the 14th of March, Farragut attempts to force a passage.--