The Everything Civil War Book by Stoddard, Brooke C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents The Top Ten Facts about the American Civil War Introduction 1 Causes of the Civil War

Regional Differences Expansion and States’ Rights The Issue of Slavery The Life of a Slave The Fugitive Slave Act and the Underground Railroad The Many Voices of Abolition The Dred Scott Decision Bleeding Kansas John Brown’s Harpers Ferry Raid Secession

2 On the Eve of War

The Nation Splits The Union The Confederate States of America The Border States Making Armies and Officers Union and Confederate Cabinet Officers

3 Lincoln and Davis: Leaders of the North and South

Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis Abraham Lincoln’s Childhood Years Lincoln’s Early Politics The Lincoln-Douglas Debates Lincoln’s First Presidential Election Jefferson Davis: A Short Biography

4 Military Leaders of the North and South

Politics and Generals Winfield Scott George B. McClellan Ulysses S. Grant William Tecumseh Sherman David Farragut Robert E. Lee Jeb Stuart Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson Pierre G. T. Beauregard Joseph E. Johnston Other Important Military Figures

5 The Course of the War: 1861

Besieging Fort Sumter The Fall of Fort Sumter The Anaconda Plan and the Beginning of the Blockade The First Battle of Manassas Attacking Port Royal Sound and the Outer Banks Ball’s Bluff and Belmont

6 The Course of the War: 1862 Part I

Fort Henry Fort Donelson Peninsular Campaign Begins The Battle of Shiloh The Valley Campaign The Seven Days Battles

7 The Course of the War: 1862 Part II

Jackson Versus Pope in Virginia Second Manassas Antietam The Invasion of Kentucky Target Vicksburg Fredericksburg

8 The Course of the War: 1863 Part I

Murfreesboro Grant Maneuvers Against Vicksburg The Battle of Chancellorsville Lee Moves North Victory on the Mississippi Cavalry Raids North and South

9 The Course of the War: 1863 Part II

Gettysburg Lee Versus Meade after Gettysburg The Battle of Chickamauga Chattanooga Besieged The Battle of Chattanooga Knoxville Relieved

10 The Course of the War: 1864 Part I

That Devil Forrest Up the Red River Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania The Drive on Atlanta Confederate Success at Richmond and New Market, Virginia From Cold Harbor to Petersburg

11 The Course of the War: 1864 Part II

General Early Heads for Washington, D.C. Sherman Wins Atlanta The Struggle for the Shenandoah Valley Hood Heads for Tennessee Sherman Marches to the Sea Lincoln’s Second Presidential Election

12 The End of the Civil War

Sherman’s March Through the Carolinas The Collapsing Confederacy The Final Battles Around Petersburg The Surrender of Robert E. Lee The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Flight of the Confederate Government Very Last Battles

13 War off the Battlefield

Naval Warfare Begins The Monitor Versus the Merrimac Island No. 10 The Battle of New Orleans The Battle of Memphis The Battle of Mobile Bay Sabotage and Far-Fetched Plots Guerilla Warfare

14 The War in the West and Other Places

The War in Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas The War in Texas War in Florida War in the Far West War on the Atlantic and Pacific The “War” in Europe

15 Weapons of War

Weapons Innovations Small Arms Muskets and Rifles Handguns Swords and Sabers Artillery

16 Life in the Service

Camp Life Uniforms What the Average Soldier Wore Flags of the North and South

17 Horrors of War

Battlefield Conditions Casualties Prisoners of War Battlefield Medicine War Doctors Nurses and Clara Barton

18 Away from the Mainstream

African-American Participation in the Civil War Ethnic Makeup of the Civil War Chronicling the Civil War Photography Espionage During the Civil War Women and Children on the Battlefield

19 Family Life During the Civil War

America on the Eve of Destruction Family Life City Life Farm Life Plantation Life Religion

20 Reconstruction and Remembrance

Reconstruction Confederate Exiles The Official End of Slavery African Americans after the War

Appendix A: The Civil War Timeline Appendix B: Resources