The Civil War was the defining event in American history.

IntroductionAuthor to Reader1. Antietam (September 16¿18, 1862)2. Abraham Lincoln (1809¿1865)3. Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822¿1885)4. Gettysburg (July 1¿3, 1863)5. Robert Edward Lee (1807¿1870)6. William Tecumseh Sherman (1820¿1891)7. Vicksburg (May 18¿July 4, 1863)8. Philip Henry Sheridan (1831¿1888)9. Jefferson Davis (1808¿1889)10. First Bull Run (July 21, 1861)11. George Henry Thomas (1816¿1870)12. Chattanooga (November 23¿25, 1863)13. James Longstreet (1821¿1904)14. David Glasgow Farragut (1801¿1870)15. Franklin (November 30, 1864)16. March to the Sea (November 15¿December 21, 1864)17. Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807¿1891) -18. Shiloh (April 6¿7, 1862)19. Jubal Anderson Early (1816¿1894)20. Atlanta Campaign (May 1¿September 8, 1864)21. Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821¿1877)22. Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)23. James Ewell Brown (J. E. B.) Stuart (1833¿1864)24. George Gordon Meade (1815¿1872)25. Blockade and Blockade Runners (1861¿1865)26. Ambrose Powell Hill (1825¿1865)27. Anaconda Plan (1861)28. John Buchanan Floyd (1806¿1863)29. Shenandoah Valley Campaign (August 7, 1864¿March 2, 1865)30. Winfield Scott (1786¿1866)31. Chancellorsville (April 30¿May 6, 1863) -32. Peninsular Campaign (April¿July, 1862)33. Edmund Kirby Smith (1824¿1893)34. Transportation and Communications (1861¿1865)35. Fort Donelson (February 11¿16, 1862)36. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (1824¿1863)37. Appomattox Campaign (March 29¿April 9, 1865)38. Black Soldiers and Sailors (1861¿1865)39. John Sedgwick (1813¿1864)40. Second Bull Run (August 29¿30, 1862)41. Mathew B. Brady (1823¿1896) -15242. Andersonville Prison (February 1864¿April 1865)43. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818¿1893)44. Pea Ridge (March 6¿8, 1862)45. John Bell Hood (1831¿1879)46. Petersburg Campaign (June 15, 1864¿March 29, 1865)47. Weapons Technology (1861¿1865)48. Joseph Hooker (1814¿1879)49. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851)50. Fort Sumter (April 12¿14, 1861)51. George Brinton McClellan (1826¿1885)52. George Armstrong Custer (1839¿1876)53. Fredericksburg (December 13, 1862)54. John Brown (1800¿1859)55. Winfield Scott Hancock (1824¿1886)56. Mobile Bay (August 2¿23, 1864) -57. Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824¿1881)58. Dred Scott Decision (March 6, 1857)59. Cold Harbor (May 31¿June 12, 1864)60. Braxton Bragg (1817¿1876)61. War Correspondents (1861¿1865)62. Wilderness (May 5¿7, 1864)63. Henry Wager Halleck (1815¿1872)64. James Harrison Wilson (1837¿1925)65. Spotsylvania Court House (May 8¿21, 1864)66. Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)67. Franz Sigel (1824¿1902)68. Music (1861¿1865)69. Wade Hampton (1818¿1902)70. Wilson's Creek (August 10, 1861)71. Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818¿1893)72. Hampton Roads (March 8¿9, 1862)73. Thomas Lafayette Rosser (1836¿1910)74. Chickamauga (September 19¿20, 1863)75. John Wilkes Booth (1838¿1865)76. Draft Riots (Summer 1863)77. Joseph Wheeler (1836¿1906)78. Missouri Compromise (1820)79. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828¿1914)80. Irwin McDowell (1818¿1885)81. Red River Campaign (March 10¿May 22, 1864) -82. William Mahone (1826¿1895)83. Presidents of the Future (1865¿1901)84. John Cabell Breckinridge (1821¿1875)85. Albert Sidney Johnston (1803¿1862)86. John Pope (1822¿1892)87. Nashville (December 15¿16, 1864)88. John Hunt Morgan (1825¿1864)89. George Stoneman (1822¿1894)90. USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama (June 19, 1864)91. John Singleton Mosby (1833¿1916)92. Nathaniel Prentiss Banks (1816¿1894)93. George Edward Pickett (1825¿1875)94. New Mexico and Arizona (1861¿1862)95. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick (1836¿1881)96. Intelligence (1861¿1865)97. Charleston Harbor (February 17, 1864)98. Daniel Butterfield (1831¿1901)99. John Pelham (1838¿1863)100. Palmito Ranch (May 12¿13, 1865)BibliographyIndexAbout the Author