Battles and Leaders of the Civil War VOLUME 5 Edited by Peter Cozzens University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago
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 34 4. With Generals Bee and Jackson at First Manassas Major William M. Robbins 41 5. Folly and Fiasco in West Virginia General William B. Taliaferro 49 6. Missouri's Unionists at War Montgomery Blair 67 7. 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 104 9. Reminiscences of General Grant General James Harrison Wilson 113 10. The Real Stonewall Jackson General Daniel Harvey Hill 128
VI CONTENTS 11. Recollections of Nathan Bedford Forrest General Dabney H. Maury 139 PART 4: THE EASTERN THEATRE IN l862 12. In the Air above Yorktown General George Armstrong Custer 154 13. Our First Battle, Bull Pasture Mountain [McDowell] Captain Alfred E. Lee 170 14. An Undeserved Stigma: Fitz John Porter at Second Bull Run General Ulysses S. Grant 178 15. A Witness to Mutiny at Antietam George W. Smalley 188 16. The Reserve at Antietam Colonel Thomas M. Anderson 197 17. My Story of Fredericksburg General Joshua L. Chamberlain 198 18. Lee at Fredericksburg Major J. Horace Lacy 211 PART 5: THE WESTERN THEATRE IN l862 19. Desperation and Heroism at the Battle of Valverde Lieutenant Franklin Cook 218 20. The Shiloh Campaign General Pierre G. T. Beauregard 230 21. The Great Locomotive Chase Private Jacob Parrott 272 22. The Attack on Corinth Captain Clinton H. Parkhurst 283 23. Losing a Division at Stones River General Richard W. Johnson 292 PART 6: THE EASTERN THEATRE IN 1863 24. When the Rappahannock Ran Red General James R. O'Beirne 304 25. The Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg General Oliver Otis Howard 314 26. Gettysburg: A Reply to General Howard General Winfield S. Hancock 348
CONTENTS 27. Why Lee Lost at Gettysburg General Henry Heth 364 28. Lincoln at Gettysburg Isaac Wayne MacVeagh 373 PART 7: THE WESTERN THEATRE IN 1863 29. A Winter at Vicksburg General Dabney H. Maury 380 30. Defending Port Hudson Colonel P. F. de Gournay 392 31. From Tullahoma to Chattanooga General William S. Rosecrans 410 32. Chickamauga Colonel Benjamin F. Sawyer 422 33. Holding Burnside in Check in East Tennessee General Samuel Jones 429 34. Charging with Sheridan up Missionary Ridge General Michael V. Sheridan 450 35. The Forgotten Fight on Tunnel Hill General Green B. Raum 466 PART 8: THE EASTERN THEATRE IN 1864 36. Grant's Conduct of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Campaigns General Edward Porter Alexander 482 37. Lee's Response to Grant's Overland Campaign of 1864 Colonel William R. Livermore 493 38. Grant and Sheridan in 1864: A Study in Contrasts President Rutherford B. Hayes 503 39. A Tough Tussle with Sheridan Colonel Jacob Weddle 506 40. Boys in Battle at New Market John S. Wise 510 41. Fighting for Petersburg Thomas T. Roche 525 PART 9: THE WESTERN THEATRE IN 1864 42. A Terrible Day: The Battle of Atlanta, July 22,1864 General John W Fuller 546
Vlll CONTENTS 43. The March to the Sea, an Armed Picnic General William P. Carlin 559 44. The Red River Expedition Captain William S. Burns 574 45. 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 612 47. They Followed the Army: The Anguish of Runaway Slaves Lieutenant John Walton 614 PART 11: THE WAR IN 1865 48. The Victory at Fort Fisher General John W. Ames 620 49. The Conference at City Point General William T. Sherman 633 50. Lee at Appomattox General Edward Porter Alexander 636 51. My Negotiations with General Sherman General Joseph E. Johnston 653 52. 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