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Preface.
this volume completes the Chronicle of the
Civil War. It comprises a record of the events of the conflict from midsummer of 1863, until the close of the struggle, in the field, in the spring of 1865.
The second volume was ended with the record of the capture of
Vicksburg and
Port Hudson by the
National armies, in July.
This volume opens with an account of the movements of the Army of the Potomac in the
winter and
spring of 1863, which led to the
Battle of Chancellorsville, and
Lee's second invasion of
Maryland that ended with the
Battle of Gettysburg.
It contains the story of the military and naval.
operations in the region of the
Mississippi and the
Gulf of Mexico, and all along the
Atlantic coast, from
Florida to the lower borders of
Virginia, including the long siege of
Charleston.
Also, an account of the doings of the Anglo.
Confederate pirate-ships, including those of the
Alabama, and an account of her destruction.
It also contains a record of the important movements in
Eastern and
Southeastern Tennessee.
which were followed by
Sherman's great march and series of conflicts from
Chattanooga, by way of
Atlanta, to the sea, and thence through the Carolinas; and the expulsion of the
Confederates from
Tennessee, by
Thomas.
It bears a record of the stirring events in the
Red River region; in
Texas; all along the
Mississippi, and in the States whose borders are washed by its waters; at
Mobile, and in the interior of the States of
Mississippi and
Alabama, and the final triumph of the
National arms in all the vast region of the
Republic southward of the
Roanoke River and westward of the mountain ranges of
Virginia,
Tennessee, and
North and
South Carolina.
It contains a history of the great campaigns of the armies of the
Potomac and the
James, which ended in the capture of
Richmond,
