Recollections of the Civil War. Charles A. Dana
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Charles A. Dana
Recollections of the Civil War
With the Leaders at Washington and in the Field in the Sixties
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066218478
Table of Contents
FROM THE TRIBUNE TO THE WAR DEPARTMENT.
AT THE FRONT WITH GRANT'S ARMY.
IN CAMP AND BATTLE WITH GRANT AND HIS GENERALS.
WITH THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND.
CHATTANOOGA AND MISSIONARY RIDGE.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT IN WAR TIMES.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HIS CABINET.
THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC IN '64.
THE GREAT GAME BETWEEN GRANT AND LEE.
EARLY'S RAID AND THE WASHINGTON PANIC.
THE SECRET SERVICE OF THE WAR.
A VISIT TO SHERIDAN IN THE VALLEY.
THE CLOSING SCENES AT WASHINGTON.
PREFACE.
Mr. Dana wrote these Recollections of the civil war according to a purpose which he had entertained for several years. They were completed only a few months before his death on October 17, 1897. A large part of the narrative has been published serially in McClure's Magazine. In the chapter about Abraham Lincoln and the Lincoln Cabinet Mr. Dana has drawn from a lecture which he delivered in 1896 before the New Haven Colony Historical Society. The incident of the self-wounded spy, in the chapter relating to the secret service of the war, was first printed in the North American Review for August, 1891. A few of the anecdotes about Mr. Lincoln which appear in this book were told by Mr. Dana originally in a brief contribution to a volume entitled Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of his Time, edited by the late Allen Thorndike Rice, and published in 1886.
Although Mr. Dana was in one sense the least reminiscent of men, living actively in the present, and always more interested in to-morrow than in yesterday, and although it was his characteristic habit to toss into the wastebasket documents for history which many persons would have treasured, he found in the preparation of the following chapters abundant material wherewith to stimulate and confirm his own memory, in the form of his official and unofficial reports written at the front for the information of Mr. Stanton and Mr. Lincoln, and private letters to members of his family and intimate friends.
Charles