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CONTENTS OF VOLUME THREE.

.PROFESSOR JAMES RUSSELL SOLEY. 5 51

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NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE VICKSBURGCAMPAIGN ..

Illustrations : Colonel Charles Elvers Eliot, from ambrotypo lent, by Mrs. Mary V. E. Cabell — The Con-federate Earn “ Arkansas ” running through the Union Elect at Vicksburg , .Inly 15tli, 1862 (J. O. Davidson)

—The “ Black Hawk,” Admiral Porter’s Flag-ship, Vicksburg, 1863 (F. II. Schell), and the “ Osage ” and“Choctaw,” from photos.—The Union Vessels “Mississippi ” and “Winona” at Baton Eouge, fromphotos. (TV. Taber) — Battle of Grand Gulf (second position), from a sketch by Bear -Admiral Walke (F. II.Schell and Thomas Hogan) — Lieutenant-Commander James M. Pricliett, from photo.

GULF OPERATIONS IN 1862 AND 1863 . PROFESSOR JAMES RUSSELL SOLEY .571

THE CONFEDERATE GUN-BOAT “ARKANSAS ”... .CAPTAIN ISAAC N. BROWN .572

Illustrations: Building the “Arkansas” (J. O. Davidson) —TIio Confederate Earn “Arkansas ” along-side the Union Gun-boat “ Carondelet,” from a sketch by Bear -Admiral Walke (F. II. Schell and ThomasHogan) — Captain I. N. Brown, C. S. N., from photo.— Lieutenant John Grimball, C. S. N„ from photo, byW. Kurtz, lent by Captain Isaac N. Brown—Commodore W. D. Porter, from photo, by Fredericks.—Destruction of the Confederate Bam “Arkansas ” (J. O. Davidson).

CONFEDERATE TORPEDOES IN THE YAZOO. CAPTAIN ISAAC N. BROWN .580

UNION VESSELS IN THE VICKSBURG OPERATIONS.581

PORT HUDSON.

MILITARY OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA IN 1862 ...COLONEL RICHARD B. IRWIN .582

Illustration: Private Houses in New Orleans iu which Confederate Officers were Confined, fromphotos (E. J. Meeker).

THE OPPOSING FORCES AT BATON ROUGE, LA . Composition, Strength, and Losses.585

Illustration : Burning of the State-I-Iouee, Baton Rouge , on Sunday, December 28th, 1862 (FrankXT. Schell).

THE CAPTURE OF PORT HUDSON. COLONEL RICHARD B. IRWIN .586

Illustrations: Magruder’s men boarding the “ Harriet Lane” at Galveston (J. O. Davidson)— Sharp-shooters of the 75th N. Y. Volunteers picking off the Gunners of the Confederate Gun-boat “ Cotton, ” inthe Action at Bayou Teche, La. , January 14th, 1863 (Frank II. Schell) — Return of a Foraging Party of the24tli Connecticut Volunteers to Baton Rouge (Frank H. Schell) —March of the Nineteenth Army Corps bythe Bayou Sara Road toward Port Hudson (Frank JT. Schell) — The Baggage Train of General Augur’sDivision crossing Bayou Montecino on the March to Port Hudson (Frank JI. Schell) — Opening of theNaval Attack on Port Hudson (A. It. Waud )— Map of the Siege of Port Hudson, La . (Jacob Wells).

THE OPPOSING FORCES AT PORT HUDSON, LA . Composition, Strength, and Losses.598

X MURFREESBORO’.

^BRAGG’S ADVANCE AND RETREAT. COLONEL DAVID URQUHART .600

Illustrations: General Braxton Bragg, C. S. A., from Anderson-Cook photo.— Buildings at Murfrees-boro ’— General Rosecrans’s Headquarters — Christian Church, used as a Post Chapel by the UnionArmy — Soule Female College, used as a Hospital—Headquarters of General Bragg , afterward of Gen-erals Thomas and Garfield —Union University, used as a Hospital, from photos, taken in 1884 CO. A.Vanderhoof) —The Nashville Pike out of Murfreesboro ’ and View of Murfreesboro’ from the Vicinity ofFortress Rosecrans, from photos, taken in 1884 (E. J. Meeker) — Brigadier-General .Tames E. Rains, C. S. A.,from photo.—Brigadier-General R. W. Hanson, 0. S. A., from Brady photo.

''"THE OPPOSING FORCES AT STONE’S RIVER, TENN . Composition, Strength, and Losses... .610

A/the battle of stone’s river. colonel gilbert c. kniffin .si 3

Illustrations : Monument to the Dead of the Regular Brigade, Stone’s River Cemetery—Cannon In-scribed with the Number Buried in Stone’s River Cemetery—Stone’s River Cemetery, the Nashville Rail-road in the Foreground, from photos, taken in 1884 (E. J. Meeker) — Map of the Battle-fields of Stone’sRiver , Tcnn. (Jacob Wells )—View on the Nashville Pike at the Union Cemetery, and Monument to theDead of I-Iazen’s Brigade, on the Position hold by his Brigade in the Angle between the Pike and the Rail-road, from photos, taken in 1884 (E. J. Meeker) — Brigadier-General Edward N. Kirk, from Brady photo.—Brigadier-General Joshua W. Sill, from a steel engraving—General Roseerans’s Headquarters at Stone’sRiver , and Bridge over Overall’s Creek, from photos, taken in 1884 (C. A . Vanderhoof) — General SamuelBeatty’s Brigade (Van Cleve’s Division) advancing to Sustain the Union Right near the Nashville Pike,from lithograph of war-time sketch by A. E. Mathews (E. J. Meeker) — Scene of the Fighting of Palmer’sand Rousseau ’s Divisions, from lithograph of war-time sketch by A. E. Mathews ( W. Taber) —Positionof Starkweather’s and Scribner’s Brigades on January 1st, 2d, and 3d, from lithograph of war-time sketchby A. E. Mathews (Hairy Fenn) — Position of Mendenhall’s Fifty-eight Guns (as seen from the East Bankabove the Ford) which Repelled the Charge of Breckinridge, January 2d, 1863, from photo, taken in 1884(G. A. Vanderhoof) — Advance Colonel M. B. Walker’s Uuion brigade on January 2d, from lithographof war-time sketch by A. E. Mathews (E. J. Meeker).