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illustrations Professors’ Row at West Point, 1860s 3 “Flirtation Walk” at West Point, 1864 5 The Old Cadet Barracks and Academic Building at West Point, 1860s View 9 Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, 1862 16 The March of the Seventh New York down Broadway in New York City 21 The Seventh New York Quartered in the House of Representatives 25 Night View of the Capitol Building from the Old Navy Yard, 1861 31 Constructing the Defenses of Washington 33 Brigadier General William S. Rosecrans, 1861 39 Federal Troops on the March in Western Virginia 42 Confederate “Quaker Gun” at Manassas Junction 48 The Federal Army Marching to Bull Run 50 Colonel Gilman Marston, Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry 52 Irvin McDowell as a Major General of Volunteers 55 A Federal Charge at First Bull Run 56 The Black Horse Cavalry 59 Bloody Hill, Wilson’s Creek 70 Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, 1865 80 President Lincoln Visiting the Troops 82 Grant’s Headquarters at City Point, Virginia 84 A Postwar Image of Robert E. Lee 92 John A. Cockerill 124 “Erect in his saddle, his eye bent forward” 126 “I held a drumstick in each hand” 132 “I burst into a regular boo-hoo” 137 00.FM.i-xxii_Cozz 12/2/03, 8:43 AM 13 xiv • illustrations Marching through the Rain at Pittsburg Landing 142 Driving Troops Back into Line 144 The Regulars under Fire at Shiloh 146 “Blown to eternity by a bursting shell” 153 A Bit of the Famous East Wood 154 “I could look about with some calmness at this delicious bit” 155 “Strolling nonchalantly rearward” 157 “He fired at the retreating skulker” 159 Vannemann’s Maryland Battery of the Sixth Corps 160 “He was dead at his post of duty” 161 Cavalry Videttes Guarding the Roads to the Potomac River after the Battle 162 Ohio and Indiana Militia Pouring into Cincinnati to Challenge Bragg’s Advance into Northern Kentucky 163 The Perryville Battlefield 168 Union troops Crossing Stones River on the Night of December 29, 1862 176 The Confederate Attack on the Union Right on the Morning of December 31, 1862 180 In the Hospital after Stones River 190 Brevet Colonel Henry C. Forbes of the Seventh Illinois Cavalry in a Postwar Image 199 Benjamin H. Grierson as a Brigadier General 203 Colonel Edward Prince of the Seventh Illinois Cavalry in a Postwar Image 210 The Stone Wall on Marye’s Heights after the Defeat of Barksdale 229 Jackson’s Flank Attack 232 Colonel Alexander Shaler Rallying His Brigade at Chancellorsville 234 Repulse of Jackson’s Men at Hazel Grove by Artillery under General Pleasanton 235 Hood’s Division Overrunning Artillery of the Union Fifth Corps 242 Hood’s Texas Brigade Charging up Little Round Top 244 A Federal Field Hospital 248 Sickles Field Headquarters near the Wheat Field 260 Major General Daniel Butterfield 269 00.FM.i-xxii_Cozz 12/2/03, 8:43 AM 14 [3.144.251.72] Project MUSE (2024-04-19 16:02 GMT) illustrations • xv Major General George G. Meade 278 Rousting Rebels from the Codori House after Pickett’s Charge 280 Confederate Cavalry 283 A Cavalry Encounter at Close Quarters 287 Union Sharpshooters before Port Hudson 294 “It was a soul-stirring sight” 296 The Johnson’s Island Prisoner of War Camp 302 The Deadline, Johnson’s Island 304 Cold Quarters, Johnson’s Island 306 The Hoffman Battalion, Johnson’s Island 311 Brigadier General John H. Morgan 316 General Duke Tests the Pies 323 Hospitalities of the Farm 327 Captain Hines Objects 342 “Hurry up, Major!” 344 Close Combat at Fort Wagner 354 Two Uncommon Views of William S. Rosecrans as a Major General 359 Major General Ulysses S. Grant in 1863, before Chattanooga 364 Major General Quincy A. Gillmore 395 A Federal Cavalry Charge 397 Fighting along the Confederate Entrenchments at Petersburg 404 General Pierre G. T. Beauregard in a Prewar Image 408 Confederate Lines before Petersburg 413 The Eighteenth Corps Carrying a Portion of Beauregard’s Line 420 The Battle of the Crater 425 An Exploding Shell in the Crater 429 An Improvised Ambulance 441 Sheridan Rallying His Army at Cedar Creek 454 Another Depiction of Sheridan Rallying the Troops at Cedar Creek 456 Major General Jacob D. Cox 459 The Battlefield of Franklin, Looking North from the Confederate Lines 461 Major General Henry W. Halleck, 1862 471 00.FM.i-xxii_Cozz 12/2/03, 8:43 AM 15 xvi • illustrations Secretary of War...

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