SLAVERY AND

FOUR YEARS OF WAR

A POLITICAL HISTORY OF SLAVERY

IN THE UNITED STATES

TOGETHER WITH A NARRATIVE OF THE CAMPAIGNS

AND BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR IN WHICH

THE AUTHOR TOOK PART: 1861-1865

BY

JOSEPH WARREN KEIFER

BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL OF VOLUNTEERS; EX-SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, U. S. A.; AND MAJOR-GENERAL OF
VOLUNTEERS, SPANISH WAR

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME I.

1861-1863

G. P. Putnam's Sons

New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press

1900

COPYRIGHT, 1900

BY

JOSEPH WARREN KEIFER

The Knickerbocker Press, New York