Brig.-Gen. Clement A. Evans. THE CIVIL HISTORY
OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES 247-570
CHAPTER I. The Settlement of 1850--Previous
Sectional Questions--Origin of the Terms North and
South--Extent of "Old South"--Sectional Rivalries--
Slaveholding Nearly Universal--Objected to by the
South and Insisted on by the Slave Traders--"Profit
and Loss" and not Conscience-- Causes which
Necessitate the Confederate States 249
CHAPTER II. First Organized Attack--Garrison the
Original and Able Representative--Politicians
Embrace Sectionalism --National Rebuke and Fight
Against the Greatness of the Union by the
Sectionalists--Secession Threatened--Mexican War
and its Results--Sudden and Fierce Attacks on
Southern Policy in 1849-50--The South's Pacific
Sentiment-- Union Imperiled by Men of Sectional
Views--Clay and Webster, Douglas and Davis Work
Together for a National Settlement--The
Compromise of 1850 263
CHAPTER III. Political Alignment in 1852--
Democrat, Whig and Freesoiler--The Settlement of
1850 Ratified--Pierce President--Nullification
Measures in Northern States-- Renewal of Agitation
by Freesoilers---Shadows Showing a Coming Event--
Sectional Discord Necessary to the Freesoil Faction--
Kansas Troubles and Emigrant Aid Societies--The
Shaping of a Party Strictly Northern--Local
Successes 277
CHAPTER IV. Sectional Convention of 1856 --
Aggressive Assault on the Union by the Fremont
Party--Its Strength Alarms the South--"All New
England Solid"--Southern Vote Given to National
Northern Men--Buchanan Elected by Only Nineteen
States--The Election Endorsed the Compromise of
1850--Kansas Agitation Renewed by the
Sectionalists--Democratic Leaders Divide the Party--
Lincoln and Douglas--The Union Imperiled for Party
Success--The Crisis Impending--Disunion Becoming
Evident--John Brown's Raid a Result of Methodic
Madness--Pulpit, Press and Platform Stir Up
Passions--Helper's Impending Crisis Reinforces
Uncle Tom's Cabin 291
CHAPTER V. The Agitators of Sectionalism
Combine in 1859 --The Constitutional Unionists
Divide--The South Unable to Control the Question--
Resolutions of Mr. Davis, 1860-- Platforms,
Nominations and Canvass for the Presidency--
National Union Sentiment Overthrown--Mr. Lincoln
Elected--The Fixed Sectional Majority of States
Attained.. 306
CHAPTER VI. The Effect Produced by the
Presidential Contest of 1860--Northern Recoil from
the Yawning Bloody Chasm--Commercial Interest--
Southern Alarm--Southern Efforts to Avoid
Secession--Rally of the Northern Extrem-ists--
Buchanan's Perplexity--Beginning of Federal
Movements to Hold the South by Force--Secession
Movements in the South 316
CHAPTER VII. Yet Four Months of Power--
Buchanan's Vacillation-Opinion Against Coercion--
Scott Proposes Force-- Major Anderson Instructed--
Reinforcement of Sumter Considered-United States
Congress Takes Up the Crisis--Crittenden, Stephens
and Davis in and out of Congress Plead for an
Adjustment--Committee of Thirty-three and
Committee of Thirteen 325
CHAPTER VIII. Vigorous Work to Strengthen Fort
Sumter --Cabinet Officers Resign--Buchanan's Policy
Looks Warlike--Seward Calls Secession a Humbug--
Lincoln Instructs Against Compromise--Election in
South Carolina and Secession Ordinance Passed--
Commissioners from South Carolina Sent to
Washington--Anderson's Strategy in Moving from
Fort Moultrie an Act of War--Lincoln in December
Advises Scott to Hold the Forts or Retake Them--
Failure of Peace Measures in Congress--The Dark
Day. 335
CHAPTER IX. Policy Foreshadowed in December,
1860--Warlike Preparations--Star of the West Hired
to Reinforce Sumter--southern Leaders Grow
Hopeless of Peace-- Northern Leaders Oppose
Compromise--Crittenden, Davis, Toombs and
Others Urge Conciliation--Virginia to the Rescue--
Border States Declare Against Coercion--Secession
of Several States--Peace Congress--"Peace Hath No
Victories". 347
CHAPTER X. Delegates of Seceded States Meet in
Montgomery-Adoption by Convention of a
Provisional Government --Election of Officers--
Inauguration of Mr. Davis as President-Measures
Adopted--Commissioners Sent to Washington and
to Foreign Countries--The Constitution of the
Confederate States of America 358
CHAPTER XI. President Lincoln's Inauguration--
Military Display--Cabinet--Confederate
Commissioners at Washington--Mr, Seward's
Double Dealing with Them--The Fort Sumter
Reinforcement Question 372
CHAPTER XII. The Fight for Forts--Proceedings
Against Fort Sumter--The South Deluded--The
Astute Scheme to Reinforce--The Fleet, the
Demonstration, the Surrender--Purpose to Put the
South in a False Position 381
CHAPTER XIII. Lincoln's Call for 75,000 Volunteers-
--Responses of Governors -- Confederate
Preparations for Defense--Political Effect in the
North--Confederate Congress Summoned to Meet--
Letters of Marque--Blockade--Measures of
Confederate Congress 393
CHAPTER XIV. Confederate War Policy--President
Davis' Proclamation--Sympathy for Maryland--
Virginia Forces Organized by Lee--Federals Cross
the Potomac--Confederate Government Transferred
to Richmond--Congress of the Confederate States
and the United States---Messages--Perplexing
Questions--Foreign Affairs 403
CHAPTER XV. Comparison of Resources--The
Advance toward Richmond--Curious Story of the
First Manassas Told in the Records--The
Discomfiture Turned to Political Advantage--
Confederate Flags in Full View from Washington --
Question of Offensive or Defensive War--Additional
Commissions from the Confederacy to Europe--Acts
of Confederate Congress--The Trent Affair 417
CHAPTER XVI. Character of the Confederate
Government-- Message of the President--
Congressional Debates on War Policy--Use of
Cotton, Tobacco, etc.--Foreign Affairs-- Peace
Resolutions--Free Trade Defeated 430
CHAPTER XVII. Second Session of Congress--
Message-- Bills Introduced--Discussions of Military
Events--Lincoln's First Emancipation Proclamation--
Retaliation--Sequestration-California and Oregon--
Counterfeit Money--Commissions to Washington to
Propose Peace--The Loan--Important Bills--
Appropriations 445
CHAPTER XVIII. Emancipation Proclamation--The
Necessity of It--Effect--The Southern View---Negro
Enrollment in Northern Armies--Meeting of
Confederate Congress-- Message--Debates--
Resolutions--Army Movements--The Confederate
Situation 461
CHAPTER XIX. Mediation Attempted--Foreign
Affairs-- Peace Spirit--Prisoners of War--Amnesty on
Conditions-- Reconstruction on a War Basis--Close
of 1863 472
CHAPTER XX. Exchanges--Prisons and Prisoners--
Andersonville in the South--Elmira, Johnson's Island
and Fort Delaware in the North--Confederate
Government Not Responsible for Difficulties of
Exchange 484
CHAPTER XXI. Armies East and West--United
States Congress-Message of President Lincoln--The
Confederate States Congress--Message of President
Davis--No Sign of Yielding--A Male Citizens in the
South Enrolled--Other Acts of Congress--Politics in
the United States--Thirteenth Amendment
Proposed--A Peace Movement--War Preparations-
Confederate Victories 499
CHAPTER XXII. Political Battle of 1864 in the North-
-Peace Currents--Southern Peace Movements--War
or Peace Discussed in United States Congress--The
Situation in July--Niagara Conference 509
CHAPTER XXIII. Re-Survey, Military and Political--
Radical Convention in May--Republican Convention
in June-- Southern View of Northern Politics--
Failure of the Armistice-Peace Propositions Ignored-
-National Democratic Convention in August--
Southern Desire for McClellan's Election--The
Canvass for Presidency--Lincoln Reelected 522
CHAPTER XXIV. Confederate Congress, November,
1864-- Message--Question of Enrolling Negroes in
Southern Service--Measures of the Congress--
Negotiations for Peace Proposed by Congress 538
CHAPTER XXV. Mission of Mr. Blair--Davis and
Lincoln Exchange Letters through Blair--Failure of
Blair Discussed --The Hampton Roads Conference
543
CHAPTER XXVI. Military Disparities--Wise on the
Part of the South to Refuse Unconditional
Surrender--Why the Final Fight was Made--Closely
Allied Military and Civil Events--Last Message of
President Davis to Congress-- Last Acts of Congress-
-Patriotic Act of Virginia and Other States--Grant
Breaks the Lines at Last--Richmond Evacuated-The
President and Cabinet Move to North Carolina and
Georgia--Capture of the President--Assassination of
President Lincoln--Malicious Prosecution of
President Davis--The Dissolution of the Confederate
States of America 560
