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1 Battles and Leaders of the Civil War VOLUME 5 Edited by Peter Cozzens University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago

2 CONTENTS List of Maps ix List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Editorial Method xxiii PART l: PRELUDE TO WAR 1. Recollections of the John Brown Raid Colonel Alexander R. Boteler 2 2. Mob Violence in Baltimore General John C. Robinson 22 PART 2: THE WAR IN l86l 3. The First Battle of the War: Big Bethel General John B. Magruder With Generals Bee and Jackson at First Manassas Major William M. Robbins Folly and Fiasco in West Virginia General William B. Taliaferro Missouri's Unionists at War Montgomery Blair Avenging First Bull Run: The Port Royal Expedition General Egbert L. Viele 91 PART 3: LEADERS, CIVILIAN AND MILITARY 8. Life in the White House with President Lincoln John Hay Reminiscences of General Grant General James Harrison Wilson The Real Stonewall Jackson General Daniel Harvey Hill 128

3 VI CONTENTS 11. Recollections of Nathan Bedford Forrest General Dabney H. Maury 139 PART 4: THE EASTERN THEATRE IN l In the Air above Yorktown General George Armstrong Custer Our First Battle, Bull Pasture Mountain [McDowell] Captain Alfred E. Lee An Undeserved Stigma: Fitz John Porter at Second Bull Run General Ulysses S. Grant A Witness to Mutiny at Antietam George W. Smalley The Reserve at Antietam Colonel Thomas M. Anderson My Story of Fredericksburg General Joshua L. Chamberlain Lee at Fredericksburg Major J. Horace Lacy 211 PART 5: THE WESTERN THEATRE IN l Desperation and Heroism at the Battle of Valverde Lieutenant Franklin Cook The Shiloh Campaign General Pierre G. T. Beauregard The Great Locomotive Chase Private Jacob Parrott The Attack on Corinth Captain Clinton H. Parkhurst Losing a Division at Stones River General Richard W. Johnson 292 PART 6: THE EASTERN THEATRE IN When the Rappahannock Ran Red General James R. O'Beirne The Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg General Oliver Otis Howard Gettysburg: A Reply to General Howard General Winfield S. Hancock 348

4 CONTENTS 27. Why Lee Lost at Gettysburg General Henry Heth Lincoln at Gettysburg Isaac Wayne MacVeagh 373 PART 7: THE WESTERN THEATRE IN A Winter at Vicksburg General Dabney H. Maury Defending Port Hudson Colonel P. F. de Gournay From Tullahoma to Chattanooga General William S. Rosecrans Chickamauga Colonel Benjamin F. Sawyer Holding Burnside in Check in East Tennessee General Samuel Jones Charging with Sheridan up Missionary Ridge General Michael V. Sheridan The Forgotten Fight on Tunnel Hill General Green B. Raum 466 PART 8: THE EASTERN THEATRE IN Grant's Conduct of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Campaigns General Edward Porter Alexander Lee's Response to Grant's Overland Campaign of 1864 Colonel William R. Livermore Grant and Sheridan in 1864: A Study in Contrasts President Rutherford B. Hayes A Tough Tussle with Sheridan Colonel Jacob Weddle Boys in Battle at New Market John S. Wise Fighting for Petersburg Thomas T. Roche 525 PART 9: THE WESTERN THEATRE IN A Terrible Day: The Battle of Atlanta, July 22,1864 General John W Fuller 546

5 Vlll CONTENTS 43. The March to the Sea, an Armed Picnic General William P. Carlin The Red River Expedition Captain William S. Burns A Question of Command at Franklin Generals David S. Stanley and Jacob D. Cox, and Colonel Henry Stone 601 PART 10: FIRESIDE AND FIELD OF BATTLE 46. "Little Jim," the Pride of the Regiment Harry M. Kieffer They Followed the Army: The Anguish of Runaway Slaves Lieutenant John Walton 614 PART 11: THE WAR IN The Victory at Fort Fisher General John W. Ames The Conference at City Point General William T. Sherman Lee at Appomattox General Edward Porter Alexander My Negotiations with General Sherman General Joseph E. Johnston The Last Days of the Confederate Government Stephen R. Mallory 666 PART 12: POSTSCRIPT 53. An Interview with General Longstreet Henry W. Grady 686 Notes on Sources and Contributors 697 Map and Illustration Credits 705 Index 707

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