Our Country: A Household History of the United States for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time, Volume 5

James A. Bailey, 1895 - United States - 2107 pages

The Dred Scott Decision 1397Action of the Supreme Court of the United States 1397Early	1399

President Buchanans Course Foreshadowed 1400Civil War in Kansas and Civil Government	1406

at Charleston 1411Disruption of the Democratic Party 1413Incidents of the Plan 1413	1413

CHAPTER III	1419

Desires for a Royal Government and Aristocratic Privileges 1421Early Preparations	1425

Ordinance of Secession Adopted 1431Public Excitement 1431Signing the Ordinance	1432

Anxiety of the Loyal People 1432Secretary Cobbs Schemes 1433Presidents Message	1438

Interior Department 1443Flight of Secretary Floyd 1443Cabinet Changes 1443South	1444

tions 1578Evacuation of Manassas 1579 Promenade of the Union Army 1579McClel	1581

Battle at Fair Oaks 1587Stuarts Raid	1589

1591Battles at Savages Station WhiteOak Swamp and Glendale 1591Battle at Malver	1591

Flank Movement 1595Battles at Groveton Buils Run and Chantilly 1595Call for Volun	1598

CHAPTER XVIII	1604

Operations in Arkansas and Louisiana 1608Battle at Murfreesboro 1610Emancipation	1613

1621Siege of Suffolk 1621The Confederate Army and Service 1621Power of the Confed	1621

Circular	1628

Southern Confederate Government	1452

Adjournment of the Montgomery Convention 1455Principles of the New Governmen	1464

Siege of Fort Sumter 1467Incidents of the Struggle 1468Evacuation of the Fort 1469	1469

Joyful Feelings in Charleston 1470Gratitude of the Loyal People Displayed 1470Honors	1476

Dance of Secession Passed 1479Bad Faith 1479Virginia Annexed to the Confederacy 147	1485

Sewalls Point 1492Loyalty in Western Virginia 1492Action of the Secessionists 1492	1492

Conventions 1492Creation and Admission of a New State 1493Troops from Beyond	1498

National Troops on the Upper Potomac 1503The Capital in Danger 1503A Gunpowder	1507

CHAPTER XI	1513

Run and its Effects 1518War in the West 1522General Lyons Campaign 1522Military	1522

Fremont Superseded 1528Battle at Belmont 1529Military Movements in Northwestern	1535

of the British Government and Press 1540President Lincolns Wisdom 1540Release of	1543

West of the Mississippi 1544Missouri Purged of Armed Insurgents 1544The Campaign	1550

Engagements on Land and Water 1555A Desperate Measure Attempted 1555Council	1557

Movement toward Corinth 1562National Army at Pittsburg Landing 1562Buells Army	1563

Mitchels Raid into Alabama 1567Recovered Territory 1567Raid upon a Railway 1568	1568

Destruction of the Confederate Flotilla 1574Seizure of New Orleans 1575Hatred	1576

Draft 1630Riots in New York 1630Colored Troops in New York 1631Morgans Great	1632

Battle at Wauhatchie 1637The Mule Charge 1637Events in East Tennessee 1638Battle	1640

1643Sumter in Ruins 1643Events West of the Mississippi 1643Invasion of Missouri	1643

Good Signs 1647Grant LieutenantGeneral 1647Campaign of 1864 1648Sherans Rand	1651

Cavalry Operations against Richmond 1656Campaign of the Army of the Potomac Begun	1657

Operations between Petersburg and Richmond 1657Kautzs Raid 1658Struggles of Grant	1664

North Carolina 1668Invasion of Tennessee 1669Hoods Defeats and Escape 1670Con	1675

Panic in Richmond 1680Flight of the Confederate Government 1681Richmond on Fire	1681

The Assassins Fate 1687Johnson President 1687A Murderous Plot 1687Proposal	1689

CHAPTER XXVI	1702

ment 1703Character of the President 1703Justice for the Freedmen 1704Motives	1709

Reinstated 1715Johnson against Grant 1715 Reconstruction Acts 1715A Highhanded	1720

CHAPTER XXVIII	1726

Banking and Currency 1727Suspension and Resumption of Specie Payments 1727Proposed	1736

tions 1737Distinguished Visitors 1738Inauguration of Grant 1738His Cabinet 1738	1738

The Panic 1741Indians and Indian Wars 1742The Modocs 1742Cheap Transportation	1744

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Title	Our Country: A Household History of the United States for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time, Volume 5 Our Country: A Household History of the United States for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time, Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Author	Benson John Lossing
Illustrated by	Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Alonzo Chappel, William Henry Powell, Thomas Nast, John Trumbull
Publisher	James A. Bailey, 1895
Original from	the New York Public Library
Digitized	7 Jan 2008
Length	2107 pages

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