The blue coats, and how they lived, fought and died for the Union : with scenes and incidents in the great rebellion

Front matter

THE

BLUE COATS,

AND HOW

Preface

The selections herein embodied have been made carefully and faithfully from the current literature of the war, a task to which the editor has devoted considerable time and research. His aim has been to draw, from the mass before him, the most graphic and striking articles, those which would most forcibly recall, to the survivors of the army and navy, the stirring scenes through which they passed so bravely, which would depict most truthfully their fortitude and heroism in adversity, in the hospital and prison, and render the amplest justice to those who proved their faith by their deeds and now lie sleeping in the swamps and amid the pines of the South.

The book being devoted to such a purpose, it seemed but justice to give to it the title which it bears, a name now doubly dear to every true American heart.

J. T.

This work will be beautifully illustrated with groups of the following Naval and Military Heroes, and prominent Rebel Generals; and will contain an elegant full-page steel portrait of Lieutenant-General Grant, besides numerous fine engravings of battlescenes, etc.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATION'S.

PORTRAITS.

L

GENERAL GRANT, FRONTISPIECE.

25. GENERAL

BUTLER.

MEADE.

9ft "

BANKS.

u

HANCOCK.

SIGEL.

M

WARREN.

HUNTER.

WRIGHT.

FREMONT.

M

" BALDY" SMITH.

ORD.

M

SICKLES,

McCLELLAN.

HEINTZELMAN.

32. ■

FOSTER.

"9, LIEUT-GEN. SHERMAN.

TERRY.

10* GENERAL ROSECRANS.

SYKES.

LOGAN.

35. «

GLLLMORE.

HOWARD.

WALLACE.

A

SLOCUM.

GARFIELD.

ROBERT McCOOK.

SCHOFIELD c

II McCLERNAND

39. "

SHERIDAN.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SCOT!

KTLPATRTCK.

GENERAL HALLECK.

41. «

CUSTER.

K

DIX.

BUFORD.

CASEY.

MERRITT.

FRANKLIN

AVERLLL.

BUELL.

TORBERT.^

^22.

a

SHIELDS.

THOMAS.

^23.

ii

BURNSLDE.

JEFF. C. DATTS,

U.

HOOKER

CANBY.

s

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

49. GENERAL CURTIS.

JNJiibfLiiii..

J. D. COX.

GORDON GRANGER.

PALMER.

SEDGWICK.

55. 56.

HcPJlEliSON.

REYNOLDS.

W ADBWUK1M.

M

BUJUIN iii XV.

59. 60.

KEARNEY.

LYON.

BIRNEY.

62. 63 u

RENO

GRIERSON.

/ 65. 66.

ROUSSEAU.

WILSON.

67. 68.

KAUTZ.

STONEMAN.

U

PLEASONTON.

GREGG.

fl\. VICE ADMIRAL FARRAGUT. ( 72. REAR " PORTER.

73. REAR ADMIRAL FOOTE.

74. " « DUPONT.

75. " " DAHLGREN.

76. " « GOLD SBORO UGH.

77. COMMODORE WINSLOW.

78. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CUSHINO,

79. GENERAL R. E. LEE.

" STONEWALL" JACKSON

EWELL.

82. «

BEAUREGARD.

83. "

LONGSTREET.

BRECKINRIDGE.

85. "

A. P. HILL.

FITZHUGH LEE.

87. COLONEL

MOSBY.

88. GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON.

HOOD.

BRAGG.

91. "

KIRBY SMITH.

PRICE.

93. "

A. S. JOHNSTON.

94. «

HARDEE.

95. "

FORREST.

JOHN MORGAN.

BATTLE SCENES, ETC.

97. BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.

-98. CAPTURE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. n. 99. BATTLE OF CHAPIN'S FARM. \*t^> > 100. SURRENDER OF GENERAL LEE. *

101. INTERVIEW BETWEEN GENERALS

SHERMAN AND JOHNSTON.

102. PRISONERS' CAMP AT ANDERSON

VILLE, GEORGIA.

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