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THE HISTORY OF THE
CONFEDERATE
WAR
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 |
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