George Cary Eggleston
The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct
(Vol.1&2)
Complete Edition
e-artnow, 2020
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EAN 4064066059972
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Table of Contents
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 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
PART 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 XV The Paralysis of Victory
CHAPTER XVI The European Menace
CHAPTER XVII Border Operations
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 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
PART I
THE CAUSES OF THE WAR
INTRODUCTION
The Magnitude of the Confederate War
During the years from 1861 to 1865, one of the greatest wars in all history was fought in this country.
There were in all three million three hundred and seventy-eight thousand men engaged in the fighting of it.
There are not that many men in all the regular standing armies of Europe combined, even if we include the unpaid hordes of Turkey and the military myriads of the armed camp known to geography as Russia.
The actual fighting field of this war of ours was larger than the whole of western Europe, and all of it was trampled over and fought over by great armies.
The men killed or mortally wounded in our war numbered on the Northern side alone 110,000. The total number of deaths resulting from military operations on the Northern side alone was 350,000. The figures for the Southern side are not accessible, owing to the loss of records. But as the fighting was equally determined on both sides, and as other conditions were substantially equal, it is certain that the losses of life were relatively about the same on both sides. It is well within the facts, therefore, to say that this war of ours directly caused the death of more than half a million men. No other war in modern history has cost so many lives or half so many.
We hear much of our recent war with Spain. Let us take it as a basis of comparison. The total number of men even nominally called into the field in that war was less by nearly two to one than the deaths alone during the Confederate war. The number of men who were actually engaged in the Spanish war numbered only about one tenth as many as those who were buried as victims of the Confederate war's battle fields.