Battles and Leaders of the Civil War

by Cozzens, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780252024047
• ISBN10: 0252024044
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Sifting carefully through reports from newspapers, magazines, personal memoirs, and letters, Peter Cozzens' Volume 6 brings readers more of the best first-person accounts of marches, encampments, skirmishes, and full-blown battles, as seen by participants on both sides of the conflict. Alongside the experiences of lower-ranking officers and enlisted men are accounts from key personalities including General John Gibbon, General John C. Lee, and seven prominent generals from both sides offering views on " why the Confederacy failed." This volume includes one hundred and twenty illustrations, including sixteen previously uncollected maps of battlefields, troop movements, and fortifications.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	ix
List of Illustrations	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	xvii
Editorial Method	xxiii
PART 1: PRELUDE TO WAR
Recollections of the John Brown Raid	2	(20)
Colonel Alexander R. Boteler
Mob Violence in Baltimore	22	(12)
General John C. Robinson
PART 2: THE WAR IN 1861
The First Battle of the War: Big Bethel	34	(7)
General John B. Magruder
With Generals Bee and Jackson at First Manassas	41	(8)
Major William M. Robbins
Folly and Fiasco in West Virginia	49	(18)
General William B. Taliaferro
Missouri's Unionists at War	67	(24)
Montgomery Blair
Avenging First Bull Run: The Port Royal Expedition	91	(13)
General Egbert L. Viele
PART 3: LEADERS, CIVILIAN AND MILITARY
Life in the White House with President Lincoln	104	(9)
John Hay
Reminiscences of General Grant	113	(15)
General James Harrison Wilson
The Real Stonewall Jackson	128	(11)
General Daniel Harvey Hill
Recollections of Nathan Bedford Forrest	139	(15)
General Dabney H. Maury
PART 4: THE EASTERN THEATRE IN 1862
In the Air above Yorktown	154	(16)
General George Armstrong Custer
Our First Battle, Bull Pasture Mountain [McDowell]	170	(8)
Captain Alfred E. Lee
An Undeserved Stigma: Fitz John Porter at Second Bull Run	178	(10)
General Ulysses S. Grant
A Witness to Mutiny at Antietam	188	(9)
George W. Smalley
The Reserve at Antietam	197	(1)
Colonel Thomas M. Anderson
My Story of Fredericksburg	198	(13)
General Joshua L. Chamberlain
Lee at Fredericksburg	211	(7)
Major J. Horace Lacy
PART 5: THE WESTERN THEATRE IN 1862
Desperation and Heroism at the Battle of Valverde	218	(12)
Lieutenant Franklin Cook
The Shiloh Campaign	230	(42)
General Pierre G. T. Beauregard
The Great Locomotive Chase	272	(11)
Private Jacob Parrott
The Attack on Corinth	283	(9)
Captain Clinton H. Parkhurst
Losing a Division at Stones River	292	(12)
General Richard W. Johnson
PART 6: THE EASTERN THEATRE IN 1863
When the Rappahannock Ran Red	304	(10)
General James R. O'Beirne
The Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg	314	(34)
General Oliver Otis Howard
Gettysburg: A Reply to General Howard	348	(16)
General Winfield S. Hancock
Why Lee Lost at Gettysburg	364	(9)
General Henry Heth
Lincoln at Gettysburg	373	(7)
Isaac Wayne MacVeagh
PART 7: THE WESTERN THEATRE IN 1863
A Winter at Vicksburg	380	(12)
General Dabney H. Maury
Defending Port Hudson	392	(18)
Colonel P. F. de Gournay
From Tullahoma to Chattanooga	410	(12)
General William S. Rosecrans
Chickamauga	422	(7)
Colonel Benjamin F. Sawyer
Holding Burnside in Check in East Tennessee	429	(21)
General Samuel Jones
Charging with Sheridan up Missionary Ridge	450	(16)
General Michael V. Sheridan
The Forgotten Fight on Tunnel Hill	466	(16)
General Green B. Raum
PART 8: THE EASTERN THEATRE IN 1864
Grant's Conduct of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Campaigns	482	(11)
General Edward Porter Alexander
Lee's Response to Grant's Overland Campaign of 1864	493	(10)
Colonel William R. Livermore
Grant and Sheridan in 1864: A Study in Contrasts	503	(3)
President Rutherford B. Hayes
A Tough Tussle with Sheridan	506	(4)
Colonel Jacob Weddle
Boys in Battle at New Market	510	(15)
John S. Wise
Fighting for Petersburg	525	(21)
Thomas T. Roche
PART 9: THE WESTERN THEATRE IN 1864
A Terrible Day: The Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864	546	(13)
General John W. Fuller
The March to the Sea, an Armed Picnic	559	(15)
General William P. Carlin
The Red River Expedition	574	(27)
Captain William S. Burns
A Question of Command at Franklin	601	(11)
Generals David S. Stanley
Jacob D. Cox
Colonel Henry Stone
PART 10: FIRESIDE AND FIELD OF BATTLE
``Little Jim,'' the Pride of the Regiment	612	(2)
Harry M. Kieffer
They Followed the Army: The Anguish of Runaway Slaves	614	(6)
Lieutenant John Walton
PART 11: THE WAR IN 1865
The Victory at Fort Fisher	620	(13)
General John W. Ames
The Conference at City Point	633	(3)
General William T. Sherman
Lee at Appomattox	636	(17)
General Edward Porter Alexander
My Negotiations with General Sherman	653	(13)
General Joseph E. Johnston
The Last Days of the Confederate Government	666	(20)
Stephen R. Mallory
PART 12: POSTSCRIPT
An Interview with General Longstreet	686	(11)
Henry W. Grady
Notes on Sources and Contributors	697	(8)
Map and Illustration Credits	705	(2)
Index	707