OF THE GREAT REBELLION, FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT TO ITS CLOSE, GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF ITS ORIGIN, THE SECESSION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES, AND THE FORMATION OF THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT, THE CONCENTRATION OF THE MILITARY AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITS VAST POWER, THE RAISING, ORGANIZING, AND EQUIPPING OF AND PATRIOTIC CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE PEOPLE, TOGETHER COMMANDERS. From Official Sources. BY THOMAS P. KETTELL, LATE EDITOR OF "HUNT'S MERCHANTS' Magazine," Editor AND PROPRIETOR OF THE "CENTURY," EMBELLISHED WITH OVER 125 ENGRAVINGS, INCLUDING 90 PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT AND OTHER SCENES, ON STEEL, ILLUSTRATING THE VARIED AND EXCITING THREE VOLS.-VOL. III. FURNISHED TO SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. NEW YORK: N. C. MILLER, 3 PARK ROW, PUBLISHER OF SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS. H. H. BANCROFT & CO., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL 1866. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, BY L. STEBBINS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Distric of Massachusetts. E Lee's Retreat from Gettysburg.-Peace Mission.-Conscription.—Meado Meade's Advance across the Rapidan.-Recrosses.-Winter-Quarters.- Draft for Three Hundred Thousand Men.-Reconnoissance.-Kilpatrick's Creation of the Office of Lieutenant-General.-General Grant Appointed.- The Army in Tennessee.-Results at Murfreesboro'.-Operations in Tennes- Inaction of Bragg.-His Position.-His Indecision.-Rosecrans Recruit- ing.-Storms.-Hooker Arrives.-Grant Ordered up.-He Supersedes Rosecrans.-Thomas in Command of Department.-Position of the Ar- my.-Movement to open River.-Defeat of the Enemy.-Sherman's March.-Combat.-Change of Route.-Burnside's Position.-Longstreet Detached from Bragg.-Siege of Knoxville.-Burnside Hard Pressed.- Bragg Weakened.-Grant Attacks.-The Movement Successful.-Sher- 1452403 |