Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/historyofconfede02eggl Project Gutenberg has the other volume of this work. Volume I: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45609 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 II.--THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR _Continued_ XXXI. The Struggle for Emancipation 3 XXXII. Burnside's Fredericksburg Campaign 19 XXXIII. Halleck's Treatment of Grant 31 XXXIV. Grant at Corinth 38 XXXV. Bragg's Campaign against Louisville 53 XXXVI. Fall and Winter Campaigns at the West and South 72 XXXVII. The Chancellorsville Campaign 83 XXXVIII. The Gettysburg Campaign 122 XXXIX. The Campaign of Vicksburg 151 XL. The State of Things After Gettysburg 171 XLI. The Struggle for Charleston 181 XLII. The Campaigns of Chickamauga and Chattanooga 196 XLIII. Grant's Strategy--The Red River Campaign--Fort Pillow, Etc. 207 XLIV. Grant's Plan of Campaign 221 XLV. The Battles in the Wilderness 228 XLVI. Spottsylvania and the Bloody Angle 237 XLVII. Cold Harbor and on to Petersburg 249 XLVIII. The Confederate Cruisers 261 XLIX. Sherman's Campaign against Atlanta 265 L. The Bay Fight at Mobile 278 LI. The Mine Explosion at Petersburg 284 LII. Early's Invasion of Pennsylvania 294 LIII. Operations at Petersburg and Sheridan's Valley Campaign 299 LIV. The Presidential Campaign of 1864 308 LV. Sherman at Atlanta 315 LVI. Sherman's "March to the Sea" 330 LVII. Hood's Campaign 337 LVIII. Preparations for the Decisive Blow 340 LIX. The End 347