Four years of fighting.

FOUR YEARS OF FIGHTING is Charles Coffin's engrossing account of his eyewitness experiences as an Army War Correspondent during the Civil War, from the first battle at Bull Run to the fall of Richmond. Coffin was in Savannah soon after its occupation by Sherman on his great?March to the Sea?. H...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Scituate, Mass. : Digital Scanning, 2001.
Colección:Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central.
Temas:
Coffin, Charles Carleton, > 1823-1896.
Coffin, Charles Carleton, > 1823-1896
1861-1865
Military campaigns
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Campagnes et batailles.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Récits personnels.
United States
History
Personal narratives
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • FOUR YEARS OF FIGHTING
  • PREFATORY NOTE.
  • ILLUSTRATIONS .
  • PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR ON STEEL,
  • SHILOH CHURCH,
  • MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL-HOUSE,
  • ANTIETAM,
  • SHERMAN' S BUMMERS,
  • NIGHT-SCENE IN CHARLESTON,
  • HUMILIATION OF RICHMOND,
  • PRESIDENT LINCOLN IN RICHMOND,
  • PLANS OF BATTLES.
  • FREDERICKSBURG,
  • FRANKLIN'S ATTACK,
  • CHANCELLORSVILLE,
  • SEDGWICK'S ATTACK,
  • SALEM CHURCH,
  • ADVANCE TO GETTYSBURG,
  • WILDERNESS,
  • SPOTTSYLVANIA,
  • NORTH ANNA,
  • COLD HARBOR,
  • PETERSBURG, JULY 17, 1864,
  • PETERSBURG, JULY 30, 1864,
  • MUSIC .
  • ROLL JORDAN,
  • FREEDMAN' S BATTLE-HYMN.
  • INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
  • BEGINNING OF THE CONFLICT.
  • Ideas and Principles.
  • Battles witnessed.
  • The Leaders.
  • State of Affairs.
  • Baltimore.
  • Dulness in the Streets.
  • Baltimore Women.
  • Raw Troops.
  • Visit to Fort McHenry.
  • Washington.
  • Material of the Army.
  • Generals in Command.
  • General Scott.
  • His Position.
  • Newspaper Reports.
  • Troops organized.
  • The Gathering of the Rebels.
  • CHAPTER I.
  • AROUND WASHINGTON.
  • Alexandria.
  • The Massachusetts Fifth.
  • A Song for Bunker Hill.
  • The Review.
  • The Distant Gun.
  • The Affair at Vienna.
  • A Dinner in the Field.
  • Vallandigham and the Ohio Boys.
  • Patriotism of the Soldiers.
  • The Rogues' March.
  • Mutiny of the Garibaldi Guard.
  • An Adventure.
  • Broken English.
  • Unpleasant Position.
  • General Mansfield's Wrath.
  • The Lager-Beer Business.
  • A Faded Aristocracy.
  • Living on a Name.
  • The Sirens of Virginia.
  • A South Carolina Chattel.
  • His Search for Chickens.
  • How he found Freedom
  • CHAPTER II
  • BULL RUN.
  • The March.
  • The Second Maine.
  • The Pageant.
  • The Bivouac.
  • The Beehives.
  • Beauregard's Proclamation.
  • McDowell's Order.
  • The Contrast.
  • Virginia Unionism.
  • The First Shot.
  • The Artillery.
  • Retreat of the Rebels.
  • The Negro's Story.
  • Centreville.
  • Snuff Dippers.
  • Affairs at Blackburn's Ford.
  • The Morning.
  • Progress of the Battle.
  • The Rebel Prisoner.
  • The Turning of the Tide.
  • At the Spring.
  • The Panic.
  • The Teamsters.
  • The Rebels on the Point of Retreating
  • Richmond Dispatch.
  • Wonderful Stories of the Rebels.
  • Change of Sentiment.
  • General Butler.
  • Union Men of Virginia.
  • Bitterness of the Rebels.
  • Seductive Influences of Slavery .
  • CHAPTER III.
  • THE FALL OF 1861.
  • Position of Affairs.
  • Disaster at Ball's Bluff.
  • The News in Washington.
  • How President Lincoln received it.
  • His tenderness of Heart.
  • Mr. Lincoln in his Springfield Home.
  • His Temperance Principles.
  • Poolsville.
  • Colonel Baker's Body.
  • Slavery in Western Maryland.
  • Visit to Eastern Maryland.
  • The "White Horse."
  • Character of the Country.
  • Our Host at Pamunkey.
  • His Family.
  • Visit to Annapolis.
  • Aristocratic Pride.
  • Secession in Washington.
  • The Spirit of Slavery in the Army.
  • The Hutchinson Family and General McClellan.

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