The political and diplomatic history has been dealt with already in the two preceding _Chronicles_. _Abraham Lincoln: a History_, by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, in ten volumes (1890), and _The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln_, in twelve volumes (1905), form the quarry from which all true accounts of his war statesmanship must be built up. Lord Charnwood's _Abraham Lincoln_ (1917) is an admirable summary. To these titles should be added Gideon Welles's _Diary_, 3 vols. (1911), and, on the Confederate side, Jefferson Davis's _The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government_, 2 vols. (1881), and Alexander H. Stephens's _A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States_, 2 vols. (1870). The best life of Jefferson Davis is that by William E. Dodd in the _American Crisis Biographies_ (1907). W. H. Russell's _My Diary North and South_ (1863) records the impressions of an intelligent foreign observer. The present _Chronicle_ is based entirely on the original evidence, with the convenient use only of such works as have themselves been written by qualified experts directly from the original evidence. INDEX Alabama, secedes; in 1864; threatened _Alabama_, Confederate raider; _Kearsarge_ and; and _Hatteras_ _Albatross_, ship _Albemarle_, Confederate ram, Cushing destroys Albemarle Sound, command lost Alexandria (Louisiana), State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy Allatoona (Georgia), Johnston evacuates; Corse's defense of "Anaconda policy" Anderson, Colonel Charles, quotes Lee Anderson, Major Robert, commands at Fort Moultrie; at Fort Sumter; surrender; leaves Fort Sumter; appointed to Kentucky command; superseded by Sherman Annapolis, Union troops at Antietam (Maryland), battle Apache Cañon, fight in Appomattox Court House (Virginia), Lee's surrender Appomattox Station, Custer raids Aquia, McClellan's troops at Archer, J. T., Confederate brigadier Arizona, "War in the West" Arkansas secedes, _Arkansas_, Confederate ram Arkansas Post, capture of Arlington, home of General Lee Armstrong, Commodore, at Pensacola Army, Confederate, Act providing for enlistment; at Harper's Ferry; Jackson and; lack of equipment; advantages; conscription; munitions; relations with Federals at Vicksburg; Army of Northern Virginia; unrenewable wastage; number of troops (1865); Lee's farewell to Army, Federal, enlistments; Congress votes troops and money; McDowell's; regulars in; number of troops; conscription; organization; Grant's (1862); Army of the Cumberland; Army of the Mississippi; Army of the Ohio; well equipped; Army of the Potomac; Army of the Tennessee; Army of Virginia; relations with Confederates at Vicksburg; Army of the James; reviewed in Washington Army Act, Provisional Confederate Congress passes Ashby, Turner, Confederate cavalry leader; at Harrisonburg; Valley raid; death Ashby's Gap, Johnston crosses Blue Ridge at Ashland (Virginia), Jackson at Atlanta, Southern cannon made at; Northern objective; battle; Sherman