Military Reminiscences of the Civil War

'Military Reminiscences of the Civil War' in 2 volumes is a personal account written by the Union Army general Jacob D. Cox. The author's aim in this book was to reproduce his own experience in the American Civil War in such a way as to help the reader understand just how the duties and the problems of that great conflict presented themselves successively to a man who had an active part in it from the beginning to the end. This edition includes: Volume 1: The Outbreak of the War Camp Dennison Mcclellan in West Virginia The Kanawha Valley Gauley Bridge Carnifex Ferry - To Sewell Mountain and Back Cotton Mountain Winter- Quarters Volunteers and Regulars The Mountain Department - Spring Campaign Pope in Command - Transfer to Washington Retreat within the Lines - Reorganization - Halleck and His Subordinates South Mountain Antietam: Preliminary Movements Antietam: the Fight on the Right Antietam: the Fight on the Left Mcclellan and Politics - His Removal and Its Cause Personal Relations of Mcclellan, Burnside, and Porter Return to West Virginia... Volume 2: Grant in Command - Rosecrans Relieved Siege of Knoxville - End of Burnside's Campaign Affairs in District of Ohio - Plot to Liberate Prisoners at Johnson's Island A Winter Ride on the Cumberland Mountains Winter Bivouacs in East Tennessee Grant's Visit - The Dandridge Affair Winter Quarters in East Tennessee - Preparations for a New Campaign Schofield in East Tennessee - Duties as Chief of Staff - Final Operations in the Valley Grant, Halleck, and Sherman - Johnston and Mr. Davis Atlanta Campaign: Dalton and Resaca Atlanta Campaign: Advance to the Etowah Atlanta Campaign: New Hope Church and the Kennesaw Lines Atlanta Campaign: Marietta Lines - Crossing the Chattahoochee Hood's Defence of Atlanta - Results of Its Capture The Rest at Atlanta - Staff Organization and Changes...