Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/historyconfederate01egglrich Project Gutenberg has the other volume of this work. Volume II: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46175 THE HISTORY OF THE CONFEDERATE WAR ITS CAUSES AND ITS CONDUCT A Narrative and Critical History by GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON VOLUME I New York Sturgis & Walton Company 1910 All rights reserved Copyright, 1910 By Sturgis & Walton Company Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1910 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PART I.--THE CAUSES OF THE WAR Introduction 3 I. A Public, Not a Civil War 13 II. The Growth of the National Idea 19 III. The "Irrepressible Conflict" 37 IV. The Annexation of Texas 58 V. The Compromise of 1850 71 VI. Uncle Tom's Cabin 107 VII. The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, The Kansas-Nebraska Bill and Squatter Sovereignty 112 VIII. The Kansas War--The Dred Scott Decision--John Brown's Exploit at Harper's Ferry 122 IX. The Election of 1860 138 X. The Birth of War 147 PART II.--THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR XI. The Reduction of Fort Sumter 177 XII. The Attitude of the Border States 194 XIII. "Pepper Box" Strategy 203 XIV. Manassas 215 XV. The Paralysis of Victory 233 XVI. The European Menace 249 XVII. Border Operations 256 XVIII. The Blockade--The Conquest of the Coast and the Neglect to Follow up the Advantage thus Gained 261 XIX. The Era of Incapacity 268 XX. The First Appearance of Grant 273 XXI. The Situation Before Shiloh 282 XXII. Between Manassas and Shiloh--The Situation in Virginia 293 XXIII. Shiloh 302 XXIV. New Madrid and Island Number 10 328 XXV. Farragut at New Orleans 332 XXVI. McClellan's Peninsular Advance 352 XXVII. Jackson's Valley Campaign 363