WAR, ITS CAUSES AND ITS CONDUCT, VOLUME I (OF 2)***


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THE HISTORY OF THE CONFEDERATE WAR

ITS CAUSES AND ITS CONDUCT

A Narrative and Critical History

by

GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON

VOLUME I







New York
Sturgis & Walton Company
1910

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1910
By Sturgis & Walton Company

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1910




CONTENTS


    CHAPTER                                                         PAGE

         PART I.--THE CAUSES OF THE WAR

           Introduction                                                3

        I. A Public, Not a Civil War                                  13

       II. The Growth of the National Idea                            19

      III. The "Irrepressible Conflict"                               37

       IV. The Annexation of Texas                                    58

        V. The Compromise of 1850                                     71

       VI. Uncle Tom's Cabin                                         107

      VII. The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, The
              Kansas-Nebraska Bill and Squatter Sovereignty          112

     VIII. The Kansas War--The Dred Scott Decision--John Brown's
             Exploit at Harper's Ferry                               122

       IX. The Election of 1860                                      138

        X. The Birth of War                                         