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Excerpt: "Whatever else may be said of Southern statesmen, of the elder school, they certainly had an imperial breadth of view. They took in the whole continent in a way that their Northern colleagues were slow in doing. It cannot be said just when they began to plan for a separate Government which would have Slavery as its cornerstone, would dominate the Continent and ultimately absorb Cuba, Mexico and Central America as far as the Isthmus of Panama."
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GenreHistory
Length11 hrs 20 mins
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Publish dateNov 14, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ILLUSTRATIONS
2CHAPTER I. A SALIENT BASTION FOR THE SLAVERY EMPIRE.
3CHAPTER II. THE WAR CLOUDS GATHER
4CHAPTER III. NATHANIEL LYON'S ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE
5CHAPTER IV. THE CAPTURE OF CAMP JACKSON
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6CHAPTER V. THE SCOTT-HARNEY AGREEMENT
7CHAPTER VI. THE LAST WORD BEFORE THE BLOW
8CHAPTER VII. GEN. LYON BEGINS AN EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN
9CHAPTER VIII. STORM GATHERS IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI
10CHAPTER IX. EVE OF THE BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK
11CHAPTER X. BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK
12CHAPTER XI. THE AFTERMATH OF WILSON'S CREEK
13CHAPTER XII. A GALAXY OF NOTABLE MEN
14CHAPTER XIII. FREMONT'S MARVELOUS INEFFECTIVENESS.
15CHAPTER XIV. THE SAD RETREAT FROM SPRINGFIELD.
16CHAPTER XI. GEN. H. W. HALLECK IN COMMAND.
17CHAPTER XVI. HUNTER, LANE, MISSOURI AND KANSAS.
18CHAPTER XVII. PRICE DRIVEN OUT OF THE STATE.
19CHAPTER XVIII. GEN. EARL VAN DORN TAKES COMMAND.
20CHAPTER XIX. THE VICTORY IS WON.
21INDEX.