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CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR
A CHRONICLE OF THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
BY WILLIAM WOOD

PREFACE
Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began
the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking
people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two--the
War of the American Revolution and that of Puritan and Cavalier. But,
though the present Chronicle never ignores the vital correlations
between statesmen and commanders, it is a book of warriors, through
and through.

I gratefully acknowledge the indispensable assistance of Colonel G. J.
Fiebeger, a West Point expert, and of Dr. Allen Johnson, chief editor of
the series and Professor of American History at Yale.
WILLIAM WOOD,
Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal Rifles, and Officer-in-charge,
Canadian Special Mission Overseas.
QUEBEC, April 18, 1921, CONTENTS
I. THE CLASH: 1861
II. THE COMBATANTS
III. THE NAVAL WAR: 1862
IV. THE RIVER WAR: 1861
V. LINCOLN: WAR STATESMAN
VI. LEE AND JACKSON: 1862-3
VII. GRANT WINS THE RIVER WAR: 1863 VIII. GETTYSBURG:
1863
IX. FARRAGUT AND THE NAVY: 1863-4
X. GRANT ATTACKS THE FRONT: 1864
XI. SHERMAN DESTROYS THE BASE: 1864
XII. THE END: 1865
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR

CHAPTER I.
THE CLASH: 1861
States which claimed a sovereign right to secede from the Union
naturally claimed the corresponding right to resume possession of all
the land they had ceded to that Union's Government for the use of its
naval and military posts. So South Carolina, after leading the way to
secession on December 20,1860, at once began to work for the
retrocession of the forts defending her famous cotton port of Charleston.
These defenses, being of vital consequence to both sides, were soon to
attract the strained attention of the whole country.
There were three minor forts: Castle Pinckney, dozing away, in charge
of a solitary sergeant, on an island less than a mile from the city; Fort
Moultrie, feebly garrisoned and completely at the mercy of attackers on
its landward side; and Fort Johnson over on James Island. Lastly, there
was the world-renowned Fort Sumter, which then stood, unfinished and
ungarrisoned, on a little islet beside the main ship channel, at the
entrance to the harbor, and facing Fort Moultrie just