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CHAPTER I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
THE "DARK AND BLOODY GROUND" — ORIGIN OF THE NAME — BATTLE GROUND OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN INDIANS — RECURRENCE OF CONDITIONS IN THE CIVIL WAR — RETURN OF PEACE — IMPORTANCE OF A CORRECT HISTORY OF THE SOUTH IN THE WAR, ESPECIALLY AS TO KENTUCKY — MISCONCEPTION AND MISREPRESENTATION — THE PRINCIPLES INVOLVED IN THE STRUGGLE — MR. JEFFERSON'S VIEWS — ATTITUDE OF OTHER STATESMEN NORTH AND SOUTH — STATE RIGHTS AND NULLIFICATION IN THE NORTH — BLOOD NOT SHED IN VAIN — THE REPUBLIC MORE STABLE BY REASON OF THE SOUTH'S PROTEST IN ARMS

CHAPTER II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
ATTITUDE OF KENTUCKY BEFORE AND DURING THE WAR — ITS CLOSE KINDRED AND ALLIANCE WITH THE SOUTH — POLITICAL STATUS BEFORE THE WAR — ITS ACTION WHEN PRESIDENT LINCOLN CALLED FOR TROOPS — GOVERNOR MAGOFFIN'S REFUSAL TO RESPOND UNIVERSALLY ENDORSED — ORIGIN OF THE DOCTRINE OF NEUTRALITY — A UNION PROPOSITION — WHY THE SOUTHERN MEN ACQUIESCED — HOW THEY WERE DECEIVED AND OVERREACHED — EFFORTS OF SOUTHERN RIGHTS PARTY TO PROMOTE INTERNAL PEACE — ACTION OF THE LEGISLATURE — VIOLATION OF NEUTRALITY BY UNION PARTY — SECRET INTRODUCTION OF FEDERAL ARMS AND RECRUITING — WILLIAM NELSON'S ACTIVITY — LAST EFFORTS OF THE SOUTHERN ELEMENT — RESPONSE OF PRESIDENT DAVIS AND PRESIDENT LINCOLN — OCCUPATION OF COLUMBUS BY GENERAL POLK — ACTION OF THE LEGISLATURE — GENERAL ANDERSON TAKES COMMAND — REIGN OF TERROR — FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN LEADERS

CHAPTER III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
FIRST CONFEDERATE TROOPS FOR THE CONFEDERATE ARMY — CAMP BOONE — GENERAL S. B. BUCKNER — OFFER OF FEDERAL COMMAND DECLINED — GENERAL ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON — ASSIGNMENT TO COMMAND — OCCUPATION OF BOWLING GREEN BY GENERAL BUCKNER — GENERAL ZOLLICOFFER AT CUMBERLAND GAP — GENERAL POLK HOLDS LEFT WING AT COLUMBUS — FEDERAL ADVANCE FROM LOUISVILLE — JOHN H. MORGAN — GENERAL SHERMAN SUCCEEDS GENERAL ANDERSON — HIS VIEWS AS TO LARGE FORCE NEEDED CONDEMNED — REPORT OF ADJUTANT-GENERAL THOMAS ON THE SITUATION — WAR MUST BE CARRIED TO SOUTHERN FIRESIDES — GENERAL SHERMAN SUPERSEDED BY GENERAL BUELL — FIRST ENGAGEMENT IN KENTUCKY — OTHER MOVEMENTS — CONFEDERATE ORGANIZATION AT BOWLING GREEN — KENTUCKY COMMANDS — THEIR HISTORY IN DETAIL

CHAPTER IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
POLITICAL MOVEMENTS — GENERAL JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE RESIGNS HIS SEAT AS U. S. SENATOR — ENTERS CONFEDERATE ARMY AT BOWLING GREEN — ORGANIZATION OF PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT AT RUSSELLVILLE — GEORGE W. JOHNSON CHOSEN FEDERATE DEFEAT AT FISHING CREEK, CALLED BY FEDERALS BATTLE OF MILL SPRINGS — A SERIOUS DISASTER — DEATH OF GENERAL ZOLLICOFFER — GENERAL GEORGE B. CRITTENDEN — CRITICAL POSITION OF GENERAL JOHNSTON AT BOWLING GREEN — FALL OF FORT HENRY — GENERALS FLOYD AND BUCKNER SENT WITH THEIR DIVISIONS TO DEFEND FORT DONELSON

CHAPTER V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
SITUATION AT FORT DONELSON — DISPOSITION OF FORCES — ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE — ATTACK BY THE GUNBOATS — THEIR REPULSE — GENERAL GRANT INVESTS CONFEDERATE LINES — SORTIE IN FORCE BY THE CONFEDERATES — ITS SUCCESS — BLOODY REPULSE OF THE FEDERALS — ESCAPE OF CONFEDERATE ARMY INSURED WHEN THE TROOPS WERE ORDERED BACK INTO THE TRENCHES — INDEFENSIBLE POSITION — SEVERE WEATHER — EXPOSURE AND SUFFERING OF CONFEDERATE TROOPS — GALLANT FIGHTING OF COLONEL HARRISON AND SECOND KENTUCKY, AND COLONEL LYON AND EIGHTH KENTUCKY — COUNCIL OF WAR — GENERALS FLOYD AND PILLOW TURN THE COMMAND OVER TO GENERAL BUCKNER AND ESCAPE TO NASHVILLE — GENERAL BUCKNER SURRENDERS TO GENERAL GRANT

CHAPTER VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SHILOH CAMPAIGN — EFFECT OF THE SURRENDER OF FORT DONELSON — EVACUATION OF BOWLING GREEN AND NASHVILLE — UNJUST OUTBURST OF INDIGNATION AGAINST GENERAL JOHNSTON — GENERAL BUELL OCCUPIES NASHVILLE — REORGANIZATION OF CONFEDERATE ARMY AT MURFREESBORO — ASSIGNMENT OF KENTUCKY TROOPS — GENERAL JOHNSTON'S SUCCESSFUL MOVEMENT TO CORINTH, MISS. — JUNCTION WITH BEAUREGARD, BRAGG AND POLK — RAPID PREPARATIONS FOR ADVANCE — GENERAL GRANT AT PITTSBURG LANDING — GENERAL BUELL MOVING TO JOIN HIM — GENERAL JOHNSTON ADVANCES TO GIVE BATTLE TO GENERAL GRANT — BATTLE OF SHILOH — PART TAKEN BY KENTUCKY CONFEDERATE TROOPS — THEIR GALLANTRY AND SEVERE LOSSES—DEATH OF GENERAL JOHNSTON — HIS LAST LETTER TO PRESIDENT DAVIS — DEATH OF GOVERNOR GEORGE W. JOHNSON — RETREAT TO CORINTH

CHAPTER VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
REORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY AT CORINTH — KENTUCKY COMMANDS — GENERAL BRECKINRIDGE SENT TO VICKSBURG — IN THE TRENCHES THERE — BATTLE OF BATON ROUGE — LOSS OF RAM ARKANSAS — FAILURE OF EXPEDITION IN CONSEQUENCE — GENERAL BRECKINRIDGE DEFEATS FEDERAL FORCE — LOSS IN KILLED AND WOUNDED — CAMP AT COMITE RIVER—DEPLETION OF COMMAND BY SICKNESS — GENERAL BRECKINRIDGE INVITED BY GENERAL BRAGG TO COMMAND A DIVISION IN PENDING KENTUCKY CAMPAIGN — DECLINES TO LEAVE HIS TROOPS IN THEIR EXTREMITY — EFFORTS TO HAVE HIM SENT WITH THEM — ORDER FINALLY ISSUED — OBSTRUCTIONS INTERPOSED — FATAL DELAY — HE MARCHES FROM KNOXVILLE FOR KENTUCKY — BRAGG'S RETREAT FROM KENTUCKY COMPELS HIS RETURN

CHAPTER VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
OPENING OF THE SUMMER CAMPAIGN IN 1862 — RELATIVE STRENGTH AND POSITION OF FEDERAL AND CONFEDERATE FORCES — GENERAL BUELL'S MOVEMENT FROM CORINTH FOR THE REDUCTION OF EAST TENNESSEE — GENERAL G. W. MORGAN'S ADVANCE ON CUMBERLAND GAP — ITS FINAL OCCUPATION BY HIM — GENERAL BRAGG SUCCEEDS GENERAL BEAUREGARD AT TUPELO — GENERAL E. KIRBY SMITH IN EAST TENNESSEE — HIS CRITICAL POSITION — GENERAL BUELL THREATENS CHATTANOOGA — HIS SUCCESS SEEMS ASSURED — GENERAL POPE SLURS THE CONFEDERATE ARMY AT TUPELO — GENERAL BRAGG CONTEMPLATES MOVING NORTHWARD TO STRIKE BUELL IN FLANK — PLAN ABANDONED AS IMPRACTICABLE — ANOTHER BRILLIANT STRATEGIC MOVE DECIDED ON

CHAPTER IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
CONFEDERATE CAVALRY — THE TWO GREAT LEADERS — JOHN HUNT MORGAN, ORIGINATOR OF THE RAID — SKETCH OF HIS LIFE — HIS ENTRANCE UPON DUTY AND EARLY EXPLOITS — RAPID GROWTH OF HIS COMMAND — HIS DASHING RAIDS — NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST — HIS STRIKING CHARACTERISTICS AND VALUABLE SERVICE — GENERAL BUELL'S EMBARRASSMENTS — HOW HE WAS HARASSED BY THESE TWO COMMANDERS — MORGAN'S FIRST GREAT RAID THROUGH KENTUCKY — HIS FULL REPORTS OF SAME — EFFECT OF HIS BRILLIANT MOVEMENT — THE CONSTERNATION CREATED BY IT — CAPTURE OF MURFREESBORO BY GENERAL FORREST WITH 1,400 PRISONERS — GENERAL BUELL'S COMMENTS ON SAME — HIS MOVEMENTS PARALYZED BY THESE RAIDS — CAPTURE OF GALLATIN, TENN., WITH MANY PRISONERS, BY GENERAL MORGAN — IN BUELL'S REAR — DESTRUCTION OF HIS LINES OF COMMUNICATION — DEFEAT OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOHNSON AT HARTSVILLE, AND HIS CAPTURE BY GENERAL MORGAN — MORGAN'S ADDRESS TO HIS COMMAND

CHAPTER X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
BRAGG'S KENTUCKY CAMPAIGN — ITS CONCEPTION DUE TO GENERAL E. KIRBY SMITH — HIS LETTER TO BRAGG SUGGESTING IT — BRAGG'S PREVIOUS PLAN — HIS CONFERENCE WITH SMITH — TRANSFER OF HIS ARMY FROM TUPELO TO CHATTANOOGA — PLAN OF OPERATIONS — ORGANIZATION OF THE FORCES — BRAGG'S COLUMN — SMITH'S COLUMN — GENERAL SMITH'S BOLD PLAN — ITS SUCCESSFUL EXECUTION — CUMBERLAND GAP TURNED, AND EASTERN KENTUCKY OCCUPIED — SCOTT’S CAVALRY — BATTLE OF RICHMOND — GREAT CONFEDERATE VICTORY — OCCUPATION OF LEXINGTON AND FRANKFORT AND THE COUNTRY EAST OF LOUISVILLE TO THE OHIO RIVER — ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION BY THE PEOPLE — AMPLE SUPPLIES — CONFEDERATE RECRUITS

CHAPTER XI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
BRAGG'S CAMPAIGN IN KENTUCKY — FROM CHATTANOOGA TO MUNFORDVILLE — HIS ADVANCE FROM CHATTANOOGA — BUELL FLANKED — BRAGG AT SPARTA, TENN. — NEWS FROM GENERAL SMITH — ALTERNATIVE ROUTES — ARRIVAL AT GLASGOW— BUELL MOVES TO BOWLING GREEN — CHALMERS' DEFEAT AT MUNFORDVILLE — BRAGG'S ADVANCE TO THAT POINT — ITS SURRENDER WITH 4,000 MEN — INTERESTING CEREMONY — PRISONERS PAROLED — PROCLAMATION OF THANKSGIVING

CHAPTER XII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
FROM MUNFORDVILLE TO PERRYVILLE — BRAGG'S SITUATION AT MUNFORDVILLE — EMBARRASSING CIRCUMSTANCES CONFRONTING HIM — CRITICISMS ON HIS STRATEGY — A REVIEW OF THE FACTS — DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE ARMY IN THE CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY AND STATE OF FEELING — ABSENCE OF SUPPLIES — NECESSITY OF PROCURING THEM — HIS MOVEMENT TO BARDSTOWN FOR THIS PURPOSE AND FOR CO-OPERATION WITH GENERAL SMITH — THEIR WIDE SEPARATION — MESSAGES TO SMITH — VISIT TO DANVILLE, LEXINGTON AND FRANKFORT — INAUGURATION OF GOVERNOR HAWES — BUELL'S ARRIVAL IN LOUISVILLE AND UNEXPECTED MOVEMENT — SILL'S FEINT ON FRANKFORT — BRAGG'S SUDDEN EVACUATION OF FRANKFORT — HIS FATAL MISINTERPRETATION OF BUELL'S MOVEMENT — CONCENTRATION OF ARMY DEFECTIVE — MOVEMENTS PRECEDING BATTLE OF PERRYVILLE

CHAPTER XIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
BATTLE OF PERRYVILLE — DELAY IN THE ATTACK — BRAGG HASTENS THERE—STATUS AS HE FOUND IT — TOPOGRAPHY OF THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY — ARRANGEMENT OF LINE OF BATTLE — RELATIVE POSITION OF OPPOSING FORCES — CONFEDERATES ATTACK AND SURPRISE McCOOK'S CORPS — CHEATHAM'S ASSAULT ON RIGHT — McCOOK DRIVEN BACK WITH HEAVY LOSS — SEVERE ENGAGEMENT ON CENTER AND LEFT — CONFEDERATE VICTORY BUT VIRTUAL DEFEAT — GENERAL BUELL UNAWARE OF THE BATTLE UNTIL IN PROGRESS TWO HOURS — BRAGG FALLS BACK TO HARRODSBURG — ARMY CONCENTRATED BUT FAILS TO ATTACK — BEGINNING OF RETREAT FROM KENTUCKY — BRYANTSVILLE — GENERAL HUMPHREY MARSHALL

CHAPTER XIV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
MOVEMENT IN RETREAT BY TWO LINES — SUCCESSFUL EVASION OF BUELL'S PURSUING ARMY — CRITICAL SITUATION OF GENERAL SMITH'S COLUMN AT BIG HILL — BUELL DRAWS OFF FROM PURSUIT AND PREPARES TO RETURN TO NASHVILLE — CONFEDERATE FORCES REUNITE AT LONDON AND PASS SAFELY THROUGH CUMBERLAND GAP — BRECKINRIDGE WITH HIS KENTUCKIANS TURNED BACK AND SENT TO MURFREESBORO — GENERAL BUELL CONGRATULATED BY GENERAL HALLECK, AND DIRECTED TO TAKE EAST TENNESSEE — IS SUPERSEDED BY GENERAL ROSECRANS — DEATH OF GENERAL WILLIAM NELSON — CONDITION OF KENTUCKY AFTER EVACUATION OF THE STATE — INCREASED PERSECUTION OF SOUTHERN PEOPLE

CHAPTER XV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
RAPID RECUPERATION OF THE ARMY AFTER ITS RETURN PROM KENTUCKY — OCCUPATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — REORGANIZATION OF KENTUCKY TROOPS — THE KENTUCKY BRIGADE AGAIN REUNITED — GENERAL HANSON IN COMMAND — CAVALRY ORGANIZATIONS — BRILLIANT MOVEMENT OF GENERAL MORGAN — CAPTURE OF HARTSVILLE WITH 2,000 PRISONERS — BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO — BRAGG'S ORDER OF BATTLE — SOME DETAILS OF THE BLOODY ENGAGEMENT — SECOND BATTLE — HEAVY LOSS IN BRECKINRIDGE'S DIVISION — DEATH OF GENERAL HANSON — BRECKINRIDGE'S REPORT — RETREAT FROM MURFREESBORO

CHAPTER XVI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
GENERAL BRAGG'S ARMY IN WINTER QUARTERS — DEATH OF COLONEL TRABUE — VISIT OF GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON — DRILLS AND REVIEWS — THEODORE O'HARA — CONFEDERATE REVERSES — GENERAL BRECKINRIDGE'S DIVISION SENT TO MISSISSIPPI — GENERAL BUCKNER ASSIGNED TO THE COMMAND OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EAST TENNESSEE, AND GENERAL PRESTON TO THAT OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA — FALL OF VICKSBURG — OPERATIONS IN MISSISSIPPI — CAPTURE OF COLONEL STREIGHT'S COMMAND BY GENERAL FORREST — FEDERAL ADVANCE IN TENNESSEE — MORGAN'S GREAT RAID THROUGH OHIO

CHAPTER XVII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
ROSECRANS FLANKS CHATTANOOGA AND BRAGG EVACUATES — BURNSIDE ENTERS EAST TENNESSEE AND BUCKNER JOINS BRAGG — MOVEMENTS OF OPPOSING ARMIES PRECEDING BATTLE — LONGSTREET JOINS BRAGG WITH HIS CORPS — BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA — ARRANGEMENT OF LINES OF BATTLE — IMPORTANT PART PLAYED BY KENTUCKY OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS — SEVERE LOSSES — DEATH OF GENERAL BEN HARDIN HELM AND COLONEL JAMES HEWITT — GREAT CONFEDERATE VICTORY — CHARLES A. DANA'S OPINION — BRECKINRIDGE, BUCKNER AND PRESTON

CHAPTER XVIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
INVESTMENT OF CHATTANOOGA BY BRAGG — GENERAL ROSECRANS DISPLACED BY GENERAL GRANT — BATTLE OF MISSIONARY RIDGE — GENERAL BUCKNER ASSIGNED TO THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT — GENERAL PRESTON APPOINTED MINISTER TO MEXICO AND GENERAL BRECKINRIDGE ASSIGNED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA — SAD PARTING OF THE LATTER WITH THE KENTUCKY BRIGADE — GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON SUCCEEDS BRAGG — HIS COMPLIMENT TO THE BRIGADE — BRECKINRIDGE'S SERVICE IN VIRGINIA — HIS VICTORY OVER SIGEL AT NEW MARKET — HIS OVATION FROM GENERAL LEE'S ARMY — BATTLE OF SECOND COLD HARBOR — MONOCACY — IN SIGHT OF WASHINGTON CITY — SHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGN — RETURN TO HIS DEPARTMENT — KENTUCKY TROOPS THERE AND OPERATIONS — MADE SECRETARY OF WAR — SUCCEEDING EVENTS

CHAPTER XIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
GENERAL JOHNSTON'S ARMY IN WINTER QUARTERS — GENERAL W. B. BATE SUCCEEDS GENERAL BRECKINRIDGE IN COMMAND OF DIVISION — OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN — ROCKY FACE GAP — BATTLE OF RESACA — NEW HOPE CHURCH — ARDUOUS SERVICE OF THE KENTUCKY BRIGADE — CROSSING OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE — GENERAL HOOD SUCCEEDS JOHNSTON — BATTLES AROUND ATLANTA — BATTLE OF JONESBORO — FALL OF ATLANTA — SEVERE LOSSES OF THE KENTUCKY BRIGADE — IT IS MOUNTED — ITS SERVICES IN THE SHERMAN CAMPAIGN AND FINAL SURRENDER AT WASHINGTON, GA. — OTHER KENTUCKY COMMANDS — DUKE'S AND BRECKINRIDGE'S BRIGADES — THE RETURN OF THE KENTUCKIANS TO THEIR HOMES — THEIR HOSPITABLE WELCOME — RESTORATION TO CITIZENSHIP — SPEEDY HEALING OF BREACHES

CHAPTER XX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
DIFFICULTY OF COMPILING MILITARY HISTORY OF KENTUCKY — MEAGER OFFICIAL STATISTICS — ORGANIZED COMMANDS IN CONFEDERATE SERVICE — APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF KENTUCKIANS IN FEDERAL AND CONFEDERATE SERVICE — LIST OF CONFEDERATE GENERALS FROM KENTUCKY — KENTUCKIANS AS SOLDIERS — THEIR PHYSIQUE AND RECORD FOR GALLANTRY — PROFESSOR SHALER'S ESTIMATE — THE KENTUCKY CONFEDERATES — THEIR HEAVY LOSSES — NUMBER OF BATTLES FOUGHT ON KENTUCKY SOIL — WORDS OF WISDOM FROM THE LEADER WHOSE DESTINIES WE FOLLOWED

APPENDIX A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF KENTUCKY

APPENDIX B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183