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PREFACE.

In presenting a second volume of a popular History of the Southern War for Independence, the author gratefully acknow ledges the kind reception by the Southern public of his first volume, the generous notices of the independent Press of the Confederacy, and the encouragement of friends. He has no disposition to entreat criticism or importune its charities. But he would be incapable of gratitude, if he was not sensible of the marks of public generosity which have been given to a work which made no pretensions to severe or legiti mate history and ventured upon no solicitations of literary

success.

He can afford no better vindication of the character and objects of his work than by quoting here what was prefixed to one of the editions, of his first volume:

"Every candid mind must be sensible of the futility of attempting a high order of historical composition in the treatment of recent and incomplete events; but it does not follow that the cotemporary annal, the popular narrative and other inferiour degrees of history can have no value and interest, because they cannot compete in accuracy with the future retrospect of events. The vulgar notion of history is that it is a record intended for posterity. The author contends that history has an office to perform in the present, and that one of the greatest values of cotemporary annals is to vindi

cate in good time to the world the fame and reputation of nations."

"With this object constantly in view, the author has composed this work. He will accomplish his object, and be rewarded with a complete satisfaction, if his unpretending book shall have the effect of promoting more extensive inquiries; enlightening the present; vindicating the principles of a great contest to the cotemporary world; and putting before the living generation in a convenient form of literature, and at an early and opportune time, the name and deeds of our people."

Richmond, July, 1863.

CONTENTS.

The New Orleans Disaster... Its Consequences and Effects... Dispatches of

the European Commissioners... Butler "the Beast"... Public Opinion in Ea-

rope... The Atrocities of the Massachusetts Tyrant...Execution of Mumford...

Lesson of New Orleans...Spirit of Resistance in the South... Change in the

Fortunes of the Confederacy... Two Leading Causes for it... The Richmond

"Examiner"... The Conscription Law... Governor Brown of Georgia... Re-or-

ganization of the Army...Abandonment of our Frontier Defences... The Policy

of Concentration... Governor Rector's Appeal... First Movements of the Sum-

mer Campaign in Virginia... The Retreat from Yorktown...Evacuation of Nor-

folk...Destruction of the "Virginia"... Commodore Tatnall's Report...Secre-

tary Mallory's Visit to Norfolk... The Engagement of Williamsburg... The

Affair of Barhamsville... McClellan's Investment of the Lines of the Chicka-

hominy... Alarm in Richmond... The Water Avenue of the James... The Panic

in Official Circles... Consternation in the President's House... Correspondence

between President Davis and the Legislature of Virginia...Noble Resolutions

of the Legislature... Response of the Citizens of Richmond... The Bombard-

ment of Drewry's Bluff... The Mass Meeting at the City Hall... Renewal of

Public Confidence...The Occasions of This...JACKSON'S CAMPAIGN IN THE

VALLEY... The Engagement of McDowell... The Surprise at Front Royal...

Banks' Retreat Down the Valley... The Engagements of Port Republic... Re-

sults of the Campaign...Death of Turner Ashby...Sufferings of the People of

the Valley of the Shenandoah... MEMOIR OF TURNER ASHBY.

Effect of McClellan's Defeat in the North... Call for more Troops... Why the

North was not Easily Dispirited... The War as a Money Job... Note: General

Washington's Opinion of New England... The Yankee Finances... Exasperation

of Hostilities... The Yankee Idea of a "Vigourous Prosecution of the War"...

Ascendancy of the Radicals...War Measures at Washington... Anti-Slavery

Aspects of the War...Brutality of the Yankees... The Insensibility of Europe...

Yankee Chaplains in Virginia...Seizures of Private Property... Pope's Orders

in Virginia...Steinwehr's Order Respecting Hostages... The Character and Ser-

vices of General John Pope... The "Army of Virginia"...Irruption of the

Northern Spoilsmen... The Yankee Trade in Counterfeit Confederate Notes....

Pope's "Chasing the Rebel Hordes"...Movement Against Pope by "Stone-

wall" Jackson... BATTLE OF CEDAR MOUNTAIN... McClellan Recalled from the

Peninsula... The Third Grand Army of the North...Jackson's Surprise of the

Enemy at Manassas... A Rapid and Masterly Movement... Change of the Situ-

ation...Attack by the Enemy upon Bristow Station and at Manassas Junc-

tion.....Marshalling of the Hosts...Longstreet's Passage of Thoroughfare Gap.....

The Plans of General Lee...Spirit of our Troops... Their Painful Marches...

THE SECOND BATTLE OF MANASSAS...A Terrible Bayonet Charge-Rout of the

Enemy... A Hideous Battle-Feld...General Lee and the Summer Campaign of

Virginia...Jackson's Share in it...Extent of the Great Victory of Manassas...

Excitement in Washington... The Yankee Army Falls Back Upon Alexandria

and Washington... Review of the Situation... Rapid Change in our Military

Fortunes... What the South had Accomplished...Comparison of Material:

Strength Between North and South... Humiliating Result to the Warlike Rep-

utation of the North.

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Our Lines in the Southwest... General Breckenridge's Attack on Baton

Rouge... Destruction of the Ram Arkansas... Gen. Price's Reverse at Iuka...

Desperate Fighting...THE BATTLE OF CORINTH...Van Dorn's Hasty Exulta-

tions... The Massacre of College Hill... Wild and Terrible Courage of the Con-

federates...Our Forces Beaten Back...Our Lines of Retreat Secured...The

Military Prospects of the South Overshadowed... THE DEPARTMENT OF THE

TRANS-MISSISSIPPI... Romance of the War in Missouri... Schofield's Order

Calling Out the Militia... Atrocities of the Yankee Rule in Missouri... Robbery

Without "Red Tape"... The Guerilla Campaign... The Affair of Kirksville...

Execution of Col. McCullough... The Affair of Lone Jack... Timely Reinforce-

ment of Lexington by the Yankees... The Palmyra Massacre... The Question

of Retaliation with the South...THE MILITARY AND POLITICAL SITUATION...

Survey of the Military Situation... Capture of Galveston by the Yankees... The

Enemy's Naval Power... His Iron Clads... Importance of Founderies in the

South... Prospect in the Southwest... Prospect in Tennessee... Prospect in Vir-

ginia...Stuart's Raid into Pennsylvania...Souvenirs of Southern Chivalry...

The "Soft-mannered Rebels "... Political Complexion of the War in the

North... Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation"...History of Yankee Legis-

lation in the War...Political Errour of the Emancipation Proclamation-Its

Effect on the South... The Decay of European Sympathy with the Abolition-

ists... What the War Accomplished for Negro Slavery in the South... Yankee

Falsehoods and Bravados in Europe... Delusion of Conquering the South by

Starvation... Caricatures in the New York Pictorials... The Noble Eloquence

of Hunger and Rags... Manners in the South...Yankee Warfare... The Desola-

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