This set was written by distinguished men of the South, producing a work which truly portrays the times and issues of the Confederacy. It was edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans of Georgia.
Two volumes--the first and the last--comprise such subjects as the justification of the Southern States in seceding from the Union and the honorable conduct of the war by the Confederate States government; the history of the actions and concessions of the South in the formation of the Union and its policy in securing the existing magnificent territorial dominion of the United States; the civil history of the Confederate States, supplemented with sketches of the President, Vice-President, cabinet officers and other officials of the government; Confederate naval history; the morale of the armies; the South since the war, and a connected outline of events from the beginning of the struggle to its close. We have combined these two volumes into one "Causes of the War" volume.
There are also individual volumes for each state: Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas & Florida. An additional volume covers the Confederate Navy.
Each state being treated in a separate history allows space for details concerning its peculiar story, its own devotion, its own heroes, and its battlefields. These volumes contain information on each unit; where, when, and by whom the unit was formed. There are also some Rosters.
CHAPTER II. McClellan's Invasion--The Affair at Philippi-Rich Mountain and Laurel Hill--Death of Garnett--Operations about Romney--Federal Occupation of the Kanawha Valley--Fight at Scary Creek--Loring at Cheat Mountain 14
CHAPTER III. Operations under Gen. R. E. Lee--Floyd and Wise in the Kanawha Valley--Battle of Carnifix Ferry --Lee's Cheat Mountain Campaign--Sewell Mountain--Camp Bartow--Camp Alleghany--Floyd's Cotton Hill Campaign 34
CHAPTER IV. Operations in the Northeast--Kelley's Campaign against Romney--Stonewall Jackson in Command in the Shenandoah Valley--His Campaign to Bath and Romney 48
CHAPTER V. Battle of McDowell--The Princeton Campaign ---Loring's Advance Down the Kanawha Valley--Battle of Fayetteville---Occupation of Charleston--Jenkins Enters Ohio--Echols in Command--Imboden's Operations 56
CHAPTER VI. Operations of 1863--Jones' and Imboden's Raid against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad--Jenkins' Raid to Point Pleasant--Expeditions to Beverly and Wytheville--Battles of White Sulphur Springs and Droop Mountain--Averell's Raid to Salem 72
CHAPTER VII. Operations of 1864-65--Expeditions of Fitzhugh Lee and Rosser--Exploits of Gilmor and McNeill-organization of the Army of Western Virginia--Battle of Cloyd's Mountain--New Market--Lynchburg--Retreat of Hunter through West Virginia--Witcher's Raids--Other Brilliant Exploits 90
CHAPTER VIII. Miscellaneous Data--Notes on the Contributions of Various Counties to the Confederate Service---Records of the Twenty-fifth and Thirty-first Regiments 105
APPENDIX--McNeill and His Rangers 116
BIOGRAPHICAL 129
