Volume Iv Part 1 (1/2)

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

by E. Benjamin Andrews.

VOLUME IV.

NEW YORK.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.

1912.

CONTENTS.

PERIOD IV.

CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION.

(Continued)

1860--1868

CHAPTER V. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY

Three Great Lines of Campaign.

Confederate Posts in Kentucky.

Surrender of Fort Henry.

Siege of Fort Donelson.

Capture.

Kentucky Cleared of Armed Confederates.

Pope Captures Island No. 10.

Gunboat Fight.

Memphis Ours.

Battle of Pittsburg Landing.

Defeat and Victory.

Farragut and Butler to New Orleans.

Battle.

Victory.

The Crescent City Won.

On to Vicksburg.

Iuka.

Corinth.

Grant's Masterly Strategy.

Sherman's Movements.

McClernand's.

Gunboats pa.s.s Vicksburg.

Capture of Jackson, Miss.

Battle of Champion's Hill.

Siege of Vicksburg.

Famine within.

The Surrender.

CHAPTER VI. THE WAR IN THE CENTRE

Bragg Invades Kentucky.

Buell Saves Louisville.