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The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume I (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History

By George Cary Eggleston

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THE HISTORY OF THE CONFEDERATE WAR
- CONTENTS
- PART I THE CAUSES OF THE WAR
- INTRODUCTION The Magnitude of the Confederate War
- CHAPTER I A Public, not a Civil, War
- CHAPTER II The Growth of the National Idea
- CHAPTER III The "Irrepressible Conflict"
- CHAPTER IV The Annexation of Texas
- CHAPTER V The Compromise of 1850
- CHAPTER VI Uncle Tom's Cabin
- CHAPTER VII The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, The Kansas-Nebraska Bill and Squatter Sovereignty
- CHAPTER VIII The Kansas War—The Dred Scott Decision—John Brown's Exploit at Harper's Ferry
- CHAPTER IX The Election of 1860
- CHAPTER X The Birth of War
- BOOK II THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR
- CHAPTER XI The Reduction of Fort Sumter
- CHAPTER XII The Attitude of the Border States
- CHAPTER XIII "Pepper Box" Strategy
- CHAPTER XIV Manassas
- CHAPTER XV The Paralysis of Victory
- CHAPTER XVI The European Menace
- CHAPTER XVII Border Operations
- CHAPTER XVIII The Blockade—The Conquest of the Coast and the Neglect to Follow up the Advantage thus Gained
- CHAPTER XIX The Era of Incapacity
- CHAPTER XX The First Appearance of Grant
- CHAPTER XXI The Situation Before Shiloh
- CHAPTER XXII Between Manassas and Shiloh—The Situation in Virginia
- CHAPTER XXIII Shiloh
- CHAPTER XXIV New Madrid and Island Number 10
- CHAPTER XXV Farragut at New Orleans
- CHAPTER XXVI McClellan's Peninsular Advance
- CHAPTER XXVII Jackson's Valley Campaign
- CHAPTER XXVIII The Seven Days' Battles
- CHAPTER XXIX The Second Manassas Campaign
- CHAPTER XXX Lee's First Invasion of Maryland
- Transcribers' Note
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