Volume Iii Part 4 (2/2)

The Sixth Ma.s.sachusetts in Baltimore.

Was.h.i.+ngton in Danger.

General Scott's Measures.

March of the Ma.s.sachusetts Eighth and the New York Seventh.

Their Arrival in Was.h.i.+ngton.

CHAPTER IV. WAR BEGUN

Both Sides Expect a Brief Struggle.

South's Advantages.

Call for Three Years' Men.

Butler in Baltimore.

Maryland Saved to the Union.

Alexandria and Arlington Heights Occupied.

Ellsworth's Death.

Each Side Concentrates Armies in Virginia.

Fight at Big Bethel.

At Vienna.

The Struggle in Missouri.

Lyon and Price.

Battle of Wilson's Creek.

Lyon's Death.

Fremont, Hunter, and Halleck in Missouri.

The Contest in Kentucky.

The State becomes Unionist.

In West Virginia.

Lee and McClellan.

Brilliant Campaign of the Latter.

West Virginia Made a State.

Beauregard at Mana.s.sas.

Patterson's Advance.

Harper's Ferry Taken.

”On to Richmond.”

Battle of Bull Run.

Union Defeat and Retreat.

Losses.

Comments.

Depression at the North, followed by New Resolution.

McClellan.

Army of Potomac Organized.

The Capital Safe.

Affair of Ball's Bluff.

The South Hopeful.

And with Reason.

LIST OF ILl.u.s.tRATIONS

THE FIRST GUN FIRED FROM FORT SUMTER.

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