{"product_id":"2940013822153","title":"CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. THE CLASH: 1861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. THE COMBATANTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. THE NAVAL WAR: 1862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV. THE RIVER WAR: 1861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV. LINCOLN: WAR STATESMAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI. LEE AND JACKSON: 1862-3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII. GRANT WINS THE RIVER WAR: 1863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII. GETTYSBURG: 1863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIX. FARRAGUT AND THE NAVY: 1863-4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eX. GRANT ATTACKS THE FRONT: 1864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXI. SHERMAN DESTROYS THE BASE: 1864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXII. THE END: 1865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINDEX\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGENERAL U. S. GRANT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhotograph by Brady. In the collection of L. C. Handy, Washington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGENERAL ROBERT E. LEE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhotograph. In the collection of L. C. Handy, Washington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGENERAL T. J. (STONEWALL) JACKSON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhotograph. In the collection of L. C. Handy, Washington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNORTH AND SOUTH IN 1861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMap by W. L. G. Joerg, American Geographical Society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eADMIRAL D. G. FARRAGUT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhotograph by Brady.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCIVIL WAR: CAMPAIGNS OF 1862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMap by W. L. G. Joerg, American Geographical Society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCIVIL WAR: VIRGINIA CAMPAIGNS, 1862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMap by W. L. G. Joerg, American Geographical Society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCIVIL WAR: CAMPAIGNS OF 1863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMap by W. L. G. Joerg, American Geographical Society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGENERAL W. T. SHERMAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhotograph by Brady. In the collection of L. C. Handy, Washington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCIVIL WAR: CAMPAIGNS OF 1864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMap by W. L. G. Joerg, American Geographical Society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CLASH: 1861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStates which claimed a sovereign right to secede from the Union\u003cbr\u003enaturally claimed the corresponding right to resume possession of\u003cbr\u003eall the land they had ceded to that Union's Government for the use\u003cbr\u003eof its naval and military posts. So South Carolina, after leading\u003cbr\u003ethe way to secession on December 20, 1860, at once began to work\u003cbr\u003efor the retrocession of the forts defending her famous cotton port\u003cbr\u003eof Charleston. These defenses, being of vital consequence to both\u003cbr\u003esides, were soon to attract the strained attention of the whole\u003cbr\u003ecountry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere were three minor forts: Castle Pinckney, dozing away, in\u003cbr\u003echarge of a solitary sergeant, on an island less than a mile from\u003cbr\u003ethe city; Fort Moultrie, feebly garrisoned and completely at the\u003cbr\u003emercy of attackers on its landward side; and Fort Johnson over on\u003cbr\u003eJames Island. Lastly, there was the world-renowned Fort Sumter,\u003cbr\u003ewhich then stood, unfinished and ungarrisoned, on a little islet\u003cbr\u003ebeside the main ship channel, at the entrance to the harbor, and\u003cbr\u003efacing Fort Moultrie just a mile away. The proper war garrison of\u003cbr\u003eall the forts should have been over a thousand men. The actual\u003cbr\u003egarrison--including officers, band, and the Castle Pinckney\u003cbr\u003esergeant--was less than a hundred. It was, however, loyal to the\u003cbr\u003eUnion; and its commandant, Major Robert Anderson, though born in\u003cbr\u003ethe slave-owning State of Kentucky, was determined to fight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe situation, here as elsewhere, was complicated by Floyd, President\u003cbr\u003eBuchanan's Secretary of War, soon to be forced out of office on a\u003cbr\u003echarge of misapplying public funds. Floyd, as an ardent Southerner,\u003cbr\u003ewas using the last lax days of the Buchanan Government to get the\u003cbr\u003earmy posts ready for capitulation whenever secession should have\u003cbr\u003ebecome an accomplished fact. He urged on construction, repairs, and\u003cbr\u003earmament at Charleston, while refusing to strengthen the garrison,\u003cbr\u003ein order, as he said, not to provoke Carolina. Moreover, in November\u003cbr\u003ehe had replaced old Colonel Gardner, a Northern veteran of \"1812,\" by\u003cbr\u003eAnderson the Southerner, in whom he hoped to find a good capitulator.\u003cbr\u003eBut this time Floyd was wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe day after Christmas Anderson's little garrison at Fort Moultrie\u003cbr\u003eslipped over to Fort Sumter under cover of the dark, quietly removed\u003cbr\u003eFloyd's workmen, who were mostly Baltimore Secessionists, and began\u003cbr\u003eto prepare for defense. Next morning Charleston was furious and\u003cbr\u003ebegan to prepare for attack. The South Carolina authorities at\u003cbr\u003eonce took formal possession of Pinckney and Moultrie; and three\u003cbr\u003edays later seized the United States Arsenal in Charleston itself.\u003cbr\u003eTen days later again, on January 9, 1861, the _Star of the West_,\u003cbr\u003ea merchant vessel coming in with reinforcements and supplies for\u003cbr\u003eAnderson, was fired on and forced to turn back. Anderson, who had\u003cbr\u003eexpected a man-of-war, would not fire in her defense, partly because\u003cbr\u003ehe still hoped there might yet be peace.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070379278576,"sku":"2940013822153","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013822153_p0.jpg?v=1763595149","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013822153","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}