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. QUEBEC, WILLIAM WOOD, Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal CONTENTS I THE CLASH: 1861 II. THE COMBATANTS III. THE NAVAL WAR: 1862 IV. THE RIVER WAR: 1862 V. LINCOLN: WAR STATESMAN VI. LEE AND JACKSON: 1862-3 VII. VIII. IX. FARRAGUT AND THE NAVY: 1863-4 X. GRANT ATTACKS THE FRONT: 1864 XI. SHERMAN DESTROYS THE BASE: 1864 XII. THE END: 1865 GRANT WINS THE RIVER WAR: 1863 GETTYSBURG: 1863 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE INDEX |