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CONTENTS.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY

CORIGIN

CHAPTER II.

GEN

ORIGIN OF THE LEE FAMILY. GENERAL LEE'S EARLY CAMPAIGNS.-

HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE FEDERAL ARMY

CHAPTER III.

THE COMPARATIVE RESOURCES AND FORCES OF THE NORTHERN

AND SOUTHERN STATES.

CHAPTER IV.

PRELIMINARY MOVEMENTS.-CONFEDERATE VICTORY AT BULL'S

RUN

CHAPTER V.

MACCLELLAN LANDS IN THE PENINSULA OF VIRGINIA.-BATTLE

OF SEVEN PINES

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ix

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39

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68

CHAPTER VI.

CHICKAHOMINY OR COLD HARBour,

87

MACCLELLAN'S RETREAT

CHAPTER VII.

PAGE

. 99

CHAPTER VIII.

AUGUST, 1862.-POPE ADVANCES INTO VIRGINIA.-JACKSON STOPS

HIM AT CEDAR RUN.-SECOND BATTLE OF MANASSAS.-POPE

TAKES REFUGE UNDER WASHINGTON

CHAPTER IX.

SEPTEMBER, 1862.-LEE'S ENTRY INTO MARYLAND.-CAPTURE OF

HARPER'S FERRY.-BATTLE OF SHARPSBURG .

CHAPTER X.

-

STUART'S RAID INTO PENNSYLVANIA. BURNSIDE SUPERSEDES

MACCLELLAN.-Battle of FredericksbuRG, DECEMBER 13TH,

1862

116

138

EXASPERATION IN THE NORTH.-GENERAL HOOKER CROSSES THE

RAPPAHANNOCK.-BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE, MAY, 1863.

-VICTORY OF THE Confederates.-DEATH OF JACKSON

CHAPTER XII.

LEE'S SECOND ENTRY INTO MARYLAND.-MOVEMENTS LEADING TO

THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.

196

220

CHAPTER XIII.

BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, JULY IST-3RD, 1863.-LEE'S REtreat.

-RESULTS OF THE CAMPAIGN

CHAPTER XIV.

240

BATTLES OF THE WILDERNESS, SPOTTSYLVANIA, AND COLD HAR-

BOUR. OPERATIONS IN THE VALLEY.-COMMENCEMENT OF

THE SIEGE OF PETERSBURG

263

CHAPTER XV.

REFLECTIONS.-GENERAL SITUATION.-CONFERENCE OF HAMPTON

ROADS.-CONTINUATION OF THE STRUGGLE.-SUFFERINGS OF

THE CONFEDERATES

CHAPTER XVI.

CONTINUATION OF THE SIEGE. THE LAST COMBATS. LEE'S

RETREAT. HIS CAPITULATION

CHAPTER XVII.

LEE'S LAST YEARS AT LEXINGTON. HIS DEATH, OCTOBER 12TH,

1870

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293

303

325

*** With regard to most of the letters, quotations, and other extracts in the
following pages, the translator has been able, through the kindness and
courtesy of the author, to avail himself of the original English texts. In the
few unimportant instances where a comparison with the original text was
impossible, the passages have been retranslated from the French as literally as
can be desired.