The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct (Vol.1&2)
Complete EditionBy George Cary Eggleston
Length22h 41m
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The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct is a two volume historical work by George Eggleston, American author who served as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War, which took place from 1861 to 1865 between northern United States and southern United States. Eggleston divided the work in two parts, dealing firstly with the causes of war, and then with its conduct, sharing his own experiences, but also providing a critical look from his standpoint of a Confederate soldier.
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Publish dateApr 6, 2020
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Table of contents
1PART I THE CAUSES OF THE WAR
32CHAPTER XXIX The Second Manassas Campaign
2INTRODUCTION The Magnitude of the Confederate War
33CHAPTER XXX Lee's First Invasion of Maryland
3CHAPTER I A Public, not a Civil, War
34CHAPTER XXXI The Struggle for Emancipation
4CHAPTER II The Growth of the National Idea
35CHAPTER XXXII Burnside's Fredericksburg Campaign
5CHAPTER III The "Irrepressible Conflict"
36CHAPTER XXXIII Halleck's Treatment of Grant
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6CHAPTER IV The Annexation of Texas
37CHAPTER XXXIV Grant at Corinth
7CHAPTER V The Compromise of 1850
38CHAPTER XXXV Bragg's Campaign Against Louisville
8CHAPTER VI Uncle Tom's Cabin
39CHAPTER XXXVI Fall and Winter Campaigns at the West and South
9CHAPTER VII The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, The Kansas-Nebraska Bill and Squatter Sovereignty
40CHAPTER XXXVII The Chancellorsville Campaign
10CHAPTER VIII The Kansas War—The Dred Scott Decision—John Brown's Exploit at Harper's Ferry
41CHAPTER XXXVIII The Gettysburg Campaign
11CHAPTER IX The Election of 1860
42CHAPTER XXXIX The Campaign of Vicksburg
12CHAPTER X The Birth of War
43CHAPTER XL The State of Things After Gettysburg
13PART II THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR
44CHAPTER XLI The Struggle for Charleston
14CHAPTER XI The Reduction of Fort Sumter
45CHAPTER XLII The Campaigns of Chickamauga and Chattanooga
15CHAPTER XII The Attitude of the Border States
46CHAPTER XLIII Grant's Strategy—The Red River Campaign—Fort Pillow, Etc.
16CHAPTER XIII "Pepper Box" Strategy
47CHAPTER XLIV Grant's Plan of Campaign
17CHAPTER XIV Manassas
48CHAPTER XLV The Battles in the Wilderness
18CHAPTER XV The Paralysis of Victory
49CHAPTER XLVI Spottsylvania and the Bloody Angle
19CHAPTER XVI The European Menace
50CHAPTER XLVII Cold Harbor and on to Petersburg
20CHAPTER XVII Border Operations
51CHAPTER XLVIII The Confederate Cruisers
21CHAPTER XVIII The Blockade—The Conquest of the Coast and the Neglect to Follow up the Advantage thus Gained
52CHAPTER XLIX Sherman's Campaign against Atlanta
22CHAPTER XIX The Era of Incapacity
53CHAPTER L The Bay Fight at Mobile
23CHAPTER XX The First Appearance of Grant
54CHAPTER LI The Mine Explosion at Petersburg
24CHAPTER XXI The Situation Before Shiloh
55CHAPTER LII Early's Invasion of Pennsylvania
25CHAPTER XXII Between Manassas and Shiloh—The Situation in Virginia
56CHAPTER LIII Operations at Petersburg and Sheridan's Valley Campaign
26CHAPTER XXIII Shiloh
57CHAPTER LIV The Presidential Campaign of 1864
27CHAPTER XXIV New Madrid and Island Number 10
58CHAPTER LV Sherman at Atlanta
28CHAPTER XXV Farragut at New Orleans
59CHAPTER LVI Sherman's "March to the Sea"
29CHAPTER XXVI McClellan's Peninsular Advance
60CHAPTER LVII Hood's Campaign
30CHAPTER XXVII Jackson's Valley Campaign
61CHAPTER LVIII Preparations for the Decisive Blow
31CHAPTER XXVIII The Seven Days' Battles
62CHAPTER LIX The End
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