Intro -- CONTENTS -- Part One: The Causes -- Secession, Union And The Ideals Of The Republic -- Slavery And 'King Cotton' -- The Character Of The North -- Abolition Movement -- Westward Expansion -- From The Missouri To The 1850 Compromise -- 'Bleeding Kansas' And The Dred Scott Case -- John Brown And The Election Of Lincoln -- Part Two: The Opponents -- The Army Before The War -- Volunteer Troops And Their Leaders -- Population, Manufacturing And Wealth -- The South -- The North -- The Emergence Of Abolition As A War Aim -- The South -- Part Three: The War -- Overview -- Baptism Of Fire: Bull Run -- 'Little Mac' And The Army Of The Potomac: The Peninsula Campaign -- The West: Fall Of Forts Henry And Donelson, And The Battle Of Shiloh -- Lee's First Invasion Of The North -- Bragg's Invasion Of Kentucky -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- Winter Campaigns 1862- 3 -- Fall Of Vicksburg -- Chancellorsville: Lee's Finest Hour -- Lee's Second Invasion Of The North -- The West: Chickamauga And Chattanooga -- Grant Takes Command -- Grant's Offensive In Virginia, Spring And Summer 1864 -- From Atlanta To The Sea -- Andersonville, Pows And Black Soldiers -- The Road To Appomattox -- Postlude: A War For Freedom? -- Freedom -- Equality -- Chronology -- Recommended Reading. |