The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct (Vol.1&2) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Complete EditionBy George Cary Eggleston
Length22h 55m
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George Cary Eggleston's *The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct* presents a sweeping two-volume narrative of the American Civil War from a distinctly Southern and Confederate perspective. Combining political explanation, military history, battlefield description, and biographical portraiture, Eggleston traces the sectional crisis, secession, principal campaigns, leadership, and eventual collapse of the Confederacy. His prose is vigorous, accessible, and shaped by the conventions of nineteenth-century popular history: dramatic episodes, moral interpretation, patriotic rhetoric, and an emphasis on personal courage. Read today, the work is especially valuable as a document of postwar Confederate memory, revealing how Southern writers explained the conflict, defended their cause, and assigned responsibility for its origins and conduct.
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Length22 hrs 55 mins
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Publish dateNov 12, 2023
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Table of contents
1The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct (Vol.1&2) (Annotated)
2Volume 1
3PART I THE CAUSES OF THE WAR
4CHAPTER I A Public, not a Civil, War
5CHAPTER II The Growth of the National Idea
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6CHAPTER III The "Irrepressible Conflict"
7CHAPTER IV The Annexation of Texas
8CHAPTER V The Compromise of 1850
9CHAPTER VI Uncle Tom's Cabin
10CHAPTER VII The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, The Kansas-Nebraska Bill and Squatter Sovereignty
11CHAPTER VIII The Kansas War—The Dred Scott Decision—John Brown's Exploit at Harper's Ferry
12CHAPTER IX The Election of 1860
13CHAPTER X The Birth of War
14PART II THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR
15CHAPTER XI The Reduction of Fort Sumter
16CHAPTER XII The Attitude of the Border States
17CHAPTER XIII "Pepper Box" Strategy
18CHAPTER XIV Manassas
19CHAPTER XV The Paralysis of Victory
20CHAPTER XVI The European Menace
21CHAPTER XVII Border Operations
22CHAPTER XVIII The Blockade—The Conquest of the Coast and the Neglect to Follow up the Advantage thus Gained
23CHAPTER XIX The Era of Incapacity
24CHAPTER XX The First Appearance of Grant
25CHAPTER XXI The Situation Before Shiloh
26CHAPTER XXII Between Manassas and Shiloh—The Situation in Virginia
27CHAPTER XXIII Shiloh
28CHAPTER XXIV New Madrid and Island Number 10
29CHAPTER XXV Farragut at New Orleans
30CHAPTER XXVI McClellan's Peninsular Advance
31CHAPTER XXVII Jackson's Valley Campaign
32CHAPTER XXVIII The Seven Days' Battles
33CHAPTER XXIX The Second Manassas Campaign
34CHAPTER XXX Lee's First Invasion of Maryland
35Volume 2
36CHAPTER XXXI The Struggle for Emancipation
37CHAPTER XXXII Burnside's Fredericksburg Campaign
38CHAPTER XXXIII Halleck's Treatment of Grant
39CHAPTER XXXIV Grant at Corinth
40CHAPTER XXXV Bragg's Campaign Against Louisville
41CHAPTER XXXVI Fall and Winter Campaigns at the West and South
42CHAPTER XXXVII The Chancellorsville Campaign
43CHAPTER XXXVIII The Gettysburg Campaign
44CHAPTER XXXIX The Campaign of Vicksburg
45CHAPTER XL The State of Things After Gettysburg
46CHAPTER XLI The Struggle for Charleston
47CHAPTER XLII The Campaigns of Chickamauga and Chattanooga
48CHAPTER XLIII Grant's Strategy—The Red River Campaign—Fort Pillow, Etc.
49CHAPTER XLIV Grant's Plan of Campaign
50CHAPTER XLV The Battles in the Wilderness
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