CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE
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FRONTISPIECE, “THE BUGLE CALL.” From the lithograph By D. C. Fabronius of the painting
PREFACE. IX
Illustrations : Camp Gossip, from Gardner photo.; and Confederate Wooden Canteen (W. Taber).
LIST OF MAPS. XXII
LIST OF ARTISTS . xyttt
LIST OF DRAUGHTSMEN. xyttt
LIST OF ENGRAVERS. xyttt
INTRODUCTION.
PRELIMINARY EVENTS. From the Charleston Convention to the first Bull Run. 1
Illustration : The Reveille (W. Taber).
ORGANIZATION OF THE TWO GOVERNMENTS. 5
The United States Government: The Buchanan Administration ; The Lincoln Administra-tion; The United States War Department ; The United States Navy Department.
The Confederate States Government: Provisional Organization ; Reorganization ; Confed-erate States War Department; Confederate States Navy Department.
Governors of the States during the War.
SIGNS OF WAR.
WASHINGTON ON THE EVE OF THE WAR. GENERAL CHARLES P. STONE . 7
Illustrations : Rotunda of the Capitolin 1861, from photo, lent by General M. C. Meigs (E. J. Meeker) —
Map of the United States in 1861, showing Military Posts occupied by United States Troops January 1 ,
1861, and Approximate Limit of Territory controlled by the United States Forces July, 1861 (JacobWells) —Uniform of the National Rifles; Uniform of the Potomac Light Infantry (H. A. Ogden) —BrevetLieut.-General Winfield Scott , from Brady photo.—Headquarters of General Scott (Theo. B. Davis) —Washington Arsenal, from Russell photo. (E. J. Meeker) —The Columbian Armory (T. R. Davis) —JosephHolt, Secretary of War, from Brady photo. — President Buchanan, from Brady photo.— General CharlesP. Stone , from Brady photo.—President Lincoln, from ambrotype taken May 20, 1860—Vice-PresidentHamlin, from Brady photo. — South or Garden Side of the White House (F. H. Cocks)— The White Houseat Night (Joseph Pennell ) — Inauguration of President Lincoln, from photo, lent by General M. C. Meigs.
WITH SLEMMER IN PENSACOLA HARBOR. COLONEL J. H. GILMAN . 26
Illustrations: Pensacola Harbor from the Bar (Theo. R. Davis) — The Man who refused to hauldown the Union Flag (William —Map of Pensacola Bay, redrawn from “Frank Leslie’s” (Fred.
E. Silts )—Confederate Water-battery, from photo, lent by Loyall Farragut (W. Taber) — LieutenantAdam J. Slemmer, from Brady photo.
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE TWIGGS SURRENDER. . .MRS. CAROLINE BALD IVIN DARROW. 33Illustrations: A Texan Ranger, from ambrotype (A. C. Redwood) —The Alamo, San Antonio (Abram Hosier) — Colonel David H. Vinton, from photo.
^ In order to save much repetition, particular credit is here given to the Massachusetts Commandery of the Loyal Legion, toColonel Arnold A. Rand, General Albert Ordway, Charles B. Hall, and W. H. Whiton, for the use of photographs and drawings.
War-time photographers whose work is of the greatest historical value, and has been freely drawn upon in the preparationof the illustrations, are M. B. Brady, Alexander Gardner , and Captain A. J. Russell in the North ; and D. II. Anderson ofRichmond, Va., and George S. Cook of Charleston, S. C. — the latter since the war having succeeded to the ownership of theAnderson negatives.
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