ILLUSTRATIONS "LET US HAVE PEACE"-APPOMAT- From the painting by Ferris. In the NORTH AND SOUTH IN 1861 Frontispiece Map by W. L. G. Joerg, American Geo- CIVIL WAR: CAMPAIGNS OF 1862 Map by W. L. G. Joerg, American Geo- CIVIL WAR: VIRGINIA CAMPAIGNS, Map by W. L. G. Joerg, American Geo- CIVIL WAR: CAMPAIGNS OF 1863 Map by W. L. G. Joerg, American Geo- CIVIL WAR: CAMPAIGNS OF 1864 Map by W. L. G. Joerg, American Geo- CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR CHAPTER I THE CLASH: 1861 STATES which claimed a sovereign right to secede from the Union naturally claimed the corresponding right to resume possession of all the land they had ceded to that Union's Government for the use of its naval and military posts. So South Carolina, after leading the way to secession on December 20, 1860, at once began to work for the retrocession of the forts defending her famous cotton port of Charleston. These defenses, being of vital consequence to both sides, were soon to attract the strained attention of the whole country. There were three minor forts: Castle Pinckney, dozing away, in charge of a solitary sergeant, on an island less than a mile from the city; Fort Moultrie, feebly garrisoned and completely at the mercy of |