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FOUR YEARS OF WAR
A POLITICAL HISTORY OF SLAVERY
IN THE UNITED STATES
TOGETHER WITH A NARRATIVE OF THE CAMPAIGNS
AND BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR IN WHICH
THE AUTHOR TOOK PART: 1861-1865
BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL OF VOLUNTEERS; EX-SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. A.; AND MAJOR-GENERAL OF
VOLUNTEERS, SPANISH WAR
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II.
1863-1865
G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press
COPYRIGHT, 1900
BY
JOSEPH WARREN KEIFER
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON ANTIETAM, FREDERICKSBURG,
AND CHANCELLORSVILLE-BATTLES AT WINCHESTER UNDER
GENERAL MILROY-HIS DEFEAT AND RETREAT TO HAR-
PER'S FERRY-WITH INCIDENTS
CHAPTER II
INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA-CAMPAIGN AND BATTLE OF
GETTYSBURG-LEE'S RETREAT ACROSS THE POTOMAC,
AND LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES
CHAPTER III
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I
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NEW YORK RIOTS, 1863-PURSUIT OF LEE'S ARMY TO THE
RAPPAHANNOCK-ACTION OF WAPPING HEIGHTS, AND
SKIRMISHES-WESTERN TROOPS SENT TO NEW YORK TO
ENFORCE THE DRAFT-THEIR RETURN-INCIDENTS, ETC. 36
CHAPTER IV
ADVANCE OF LEE'S ARMY, OCTOBER, 1863, AND RETREAT
OF ARMY OF THE POTOMAC TO CENTREVILLE-BATTLE
OF BRISTOE STATION-ADVANCE OF THE UNION ARMY,
NOVEMBER, 1863-ASSAULT AND CAPTURE OF RAPPA-
HANNOCK STATION, AND FORCING THE FORDS AFFAIR
NEAR BRANDY STATION, AND RETREAT OF CONFEDERATE
ARMY BEHIND THE RAPIDAN-INCIDENTS, ETC.
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CHAPTER V
MINE RUN CAMPAIGN AND BATTLE OF ORange Grove, No-
VEMBER, 1863-WINTER CANTONMENT (1863-4) OF ARMY
OF THE POTOMAC AT CULPEPPER COURT-HOUSE, AND ITS
REORGANIZATION-GRANT ASSIGNED TO COMMAND THE
UNION ARMIES, AND PREPARATION FOR AGGRESSIVE WAR 58
CHAPTER VI
-
PLANS OF CAMPAIGNS, UNION AND CONFEDERATE CAMPAIGN
AND BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, MAY, 1864 — AUTHOR
WOUNDED, AND PERSONAL MATTERS-MOVEMENTS OF THE
ARMY TO THE JAMES RIVER, WITH MENTION OF BATTLES
OF SPOTSYLVANIA, COLD HARBOR, AND OTHER ENGAGE-
MENTS, AND STATEMENT OF LOSSES AND CAPTURES
CHAPTER VII
CAMPAIGN SOUTH OF JAMES RIVER AND Petersburg-HUN-
TER'S RAID-BATTLE OF MONOCACY-EARLY'S ADVANCE
ON WASHINGTON (1864) - -SHERIDAN'S MOVEMENTS IN
SHENANDOAH Valley, and OTHER EVENTS
CHAPTER VIII
PERSONAL MENTION OF GENERALS SHERIDAN, WRIGHT, and
RICKETTS, AND MRS. RICKETTS; ALSO GENERALS CROOK
AND HAYES - BATTLE OF OPEQUON, UNDER SHERIDAN,
SEPTEMBER, 1864, AND INCIDENTS
CHAPTER IX
74
BATTLE OF FISHER'S HILL PURSUIT OF EARLY - DEVASTA-
TION OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY (1864) — CAVALRY
BATTLE AT TOM'S BROOK, AND MINOR EVENTS.
CHAPTER X
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104
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BATTLE OF CEDAR CREEK, OCTOBER 19, 1864, WITH COM- MENTS THEREON-ALSO PERSONAL MENTION AND INCIDENTS 128
CHAPTER XI
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS - LEE'S SUGGESTION TO JEFFERSON
DAVIS, 1862- FERNANDO WOOD'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH
MR. LINCOLN, 1862 - MR. STEPHENS AT FORTRESS MON-
ROE, 1863-HORACE GREELEY, NIAGARA FALLS CONFER-
ENCE, 1864-JACQUESS-GILMORE'S VISITS TO RICHMOND,
1863-4-F. P. BLAIR, SEN., CONFERENCES WITH MR.
DAVIS, 1865-HAMPTON ROADS CONFERENCE, MR. LIN-
COLN AND SEWARD AND STEPHENS AND OTHERS, 1865–
Ord-LongstreET, LEE AND GRANT, CORRESPONDENCE,
1865; AND LEW WALLACE AND GENERAL SLAUGHTER,
POINT ISABEL CONFERENCE, 1865
CHAPTER XII
SIEGE OF RICHMOND AND PETERSBURG - CAPTURE AND RE-
CAPTURE OF FORT STEDMAN, AND CAPTURE OF PART OF
ENEMY'S FIRST LINE IN FRONT OF PETERSBURG BY
KEIFER'S BRIGADE, MARCH 25, 1865 - BATTLE OF FIVE
Forks, ApriL IST - ASSAULT AND TAKING OF CONFEDER-
ATE WORKS ON THE UNION LEFT, APRIL 2D-SURRENDER
OF RICHMOND AND PETERSBURG, APRIL 3D — President
LINCOLN'S VISIT TO PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND, AND
HIS DEATH
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184
CHAPTER XIII
- CAPITULATION OF
BATTLE OF SAILOR'S CREEK, APRIL 6TH
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE'S ARMY AT APPOMATTOX COURT-
HOUSE, APRIL 9, 1865-SURRENDER OF OTHER CONFEDER-
ATE ARMIES, AND END OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION
APPENDICES
A
GENERAL KEIFER
Ancestry and Life before the Civil War
Public Services in Civil Life
Service in Spanish War
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