PREFACE SIXTY years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two the War of the American Revolution and that of Puritan and Cavalier. But, though the present Chronicle never ignores the vital correlations between statesmen and commanders, it is a book of warriors, through and through. I gratefully acknowledge the indispensable assistance of Colonel G. J. Fiebeger, a West Point expert, and of Dr. Allen Johnson, chief editor of the series and Professor of American History at Yale. WILLIAM WOOD, Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal QUEBEC, April 12, 1921. 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, 1862 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- |