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Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (Century Magazine, 1884B)
This article introduces the series from which the bulk of the material below is drawn.

Antietam
Antietam Scenes, by Charles Carleton Coffin (Century Magazine, 1886B)
From the Peninsula to Antietam by George B. McClellan (Century Magazine, 1886B)
A posthumous article by McClellan, with an introductory note by his literary executor.

Atlanta/Sherman's March Through Georgia
The Struggle for Atlanta, by O.O. Howard (Century Magazine, 1887B)
Opposing Sherman's Advance to Atlanta, by J.E. Johnston (Century Magazine, 1887B)
Marching Through Georgia and the Carolinas, by Daniel Oakey (Century Magazine, 1887B)
General Sherman and the "March to the Sea," by W.T. Sherman (Century Magazine, 1887B)
The Locomotive Chase in Georgia, by William Pittenger (Century Magazine, 1888B)

Bentonville
Sherman's March from Savannah to Bentonville, by H.W. Slocum (Century Magazine, 1887B)
The Battle of Bentonville, by Wade Hampton (Century Magazine, 1887B)

Boonsboro
The Battle of South Mountain, or Boonsboro, by D.H. Hill (Century Magazine, 1886B)
Fighting for time, at Turner's and Fox's Gaps.

Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run, by G.T. Beauregard (Century Magazine, 1885A)
Confederate Forces at Bull Run, by Thomas Jordan (Century Magazine, 1885A)
A chart of the Confederate troops by command and type.
Recollections of a Private, Including the Battle of Bull Run, by Warren Lee Goss (Century Magazine, 1885A)
An excerpt from Recollections of a Private.
Incidents of the Battle of Manassas, by John D. Imboden (Century Magazine, 1885B)
Manassas to Seven Pines, by J.E. Johnston (Century Magazine, 1885B)
A reply to Jefferson Davis, including descriptions of the Battles of Bull Run and Seven Pines.

The Second Battle of Bull Run, by John Pope (Century Magazine, 1886A)
Two Days of the Second Battle of Bull Run, by Warren Lee Goss (Century Magazine, 1886A)
An excerpt from Recollections of a Private.
With Jackson's "Foot-Cavalry" at Second Manassas, by Allen C. Redwood (Century Magazine, 1886A)

Chancellorsville
The Successes and Failures of Chancellorsville, by Alfred Pleasanton (Century Magazine, 1886B)
Estimate of Forces and Losses in the Chancellorsville Campaign (Century Magazine, 1886B)
Chancellorsville Revisited by General Hooker, by Samuel P. Bates (Century Magazine, 1886B)
A visit to the battlefield by General Hooker in 1876.
Stonewall Jackson's Last Battle, by James Power Smith (Century Magazine, 1886B)
When Stonewall Jackson Turned Our Right, by John L. Collins (Century Magazine, 1886B)

Chattanooga
Chattanooga, by U.S. Grant (Century Magazine, 1886A)
The Campaign for Chattanooga, by W.S. Rosecrans (Century Magazine, 1887B)
The Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga, by J.S. Fullerton (Century Magazine, 1887B)
Was Chattanooga Fought as Planned? by William Farrar Smith (Century Magazine, 1886A)

Chickamauga
Chickamauga, the Great Battle of the West, by D.H. Hill (Century Magazine, 1887A)
The Reserve Corps at Chickamauga; General Polk at Chickamauga, by J.S. Fullerton and W.M. Polk (Century Magazine, 1887A)

Cold Harbor
From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, by E.M. Law (Century Magazine, 1887B)

Corinth
Corinth, by W.S. Rosecrans (Century Magazine, 1886B)

Crater, Battle of the
The Tragedy of the Crater, by William H. Powell (Century Magazine, 1887B)
The Dash Into the Crater, by George L. Kilmer (Century Magazine, 1887B)

Eleventh Corps
Jackson's Attack Upon the Eleventh Corps, by O.O. Howard (Century Magazine, 1886B)

Fort Donelson
The Capture of Fort Donelson (Century Magazine, 1885A)

Fredericksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg, by James Longstreet (Century Magazine, 1886B)
Lee at Fredericksburg, by J. Horace Lacy (Century Magazine, 1886B)
Sedgwick's Assault at Fredericksburg, by Huntington Jackson (Century Magazine, 1886B)
Why Burnside Did Not Renew the Attack at Fredericksburg, by Rush C. Hawkins (Century Magazine, 1886B)

Gaines's Mill
The Battle of Gaines's Mill, by D.H. Hill (Century Magazine, 1885B)
The Battle of Gaines's Mill and Its Preliminaries, by Fitz John Porter (Century Magazine, 1885B)
Including a sketch of Jackson's march to the field, by Major R. L. Dabney; the Battle of Mechanicsville (or Beaver Dam Creek, or Ellerson's Mill), June 26; the Battle of Gaines's Mill (or Chickahominy), June 27, 1862.
McClellan's Change of Base, by D.H. Hill (Century Magazine, 1885B)
Events following the Battle of Gaines's Mill/Chickahominy.
To the Chickahominy - The Battle of Seven Pines, by Warren Lee Goss (Century Magazine, 1885B)
An excerpt from Recollections of a Private.
Retiring from the Chickahominy, by Warren Lee Goss (Century Magazine, 1885B)
An excerpt from Recollections of a Private.

Gettysburg
The Battle of the First Day at Gettysburg, by Henry J. Hunt (Century Magazine, 1887A)
The Second Day at Gettysburg, by Henry J. Hunt (Century Magazine, 1887A)
The Third Day at Gettysburg, by Henry J. Hunt (Century Magazine, 1887A)
Pickett's Charge, and Artillery Fighting at Gettysburg, by E.P. Alexander (Century Magazine, 1887A)
"Round Top" and the Confederate Right at Gettysburg, by E.M. Law (Century Magazine, 1887A)
A Young Hero of Gettysburg, by George Kimball (Century Magazine, 1887A)
The Question of Command on Cemetery Ridge, by Henry J. Hunt (Century Magazine, 1887B)
Gettysburg and Waterloo, by Theodore Roosevelt (Century Magazine, 1891B)
A comparison of the casualties in the two battles.

Harper's Ferry
John Brown at Harper's Ferry, by John E.P. Daingerfield (Century Magazine, 1885B)
Harper's Ferry and Sharpsburg, by John G. Walker (Century Magazine, 1886B)
The Capitulation of Harper's Ferry, by Julius White (Century Magazine, 1887A)

Island Number 10
Sawing Out a Channel Above Island Number 10, by J.W. Bissell (Century Magazine, 1885B)

Malvern Hill
The Last of the Seven Days' Battles (Malvern Hill), by Fitz John Porter (Century Magazine, 1885B)

Manassas - See Bull Run

Maryland
Stonewall Jackson in Maryland, by Henry Kyd Douglas (Century Magazine, 1886B)
The Invasion of Maryland, by James Longstreet (Century Magazine, 1886B)

Morgan's Rough Riders
A Romance of Morgan's Rough Riders, by Basil W. Duke, Orlando B. Willcox, and Thomas H. Hines (Century Magazine, 1891A)
Three separate articles describing the raid, the capture and the escape.

New Orleans
New Orleans Before the Capture, by George W. Cable (Century Magazine, 1885A)
Fighting Farragut Below New Orleans, by Beverley Kennon, Commander of the "Governor Moore" (Century Magazine, 1886B)
Farragut's Demands for the Surrender of New Orleans, by Marion A. Baker (Century Magazine, 1886B)
Incidents of the Occupation of New Orleans, by Albert Kautz (Century Magazine, 1886B)

Newmarket
[Newmarket] The West Point of the Confederacy, by John S. Wise (Century Magazine, 1889A)

Peninsula Campaign
Up the Peninsula with McClellan, by Warren Lee Goss (Century Magazine, 1885A)
An excerpt from Recollections of a Private.
The Peninsular Campaign, by George B. McClellan (Century Magazine, 1885B)
From the Peninsula to Antietam by George B. McClellan (Century Magazine, 1886B)
A posthumous article by McClellan, with an introductory note by his literary executor.

Pennyslvania
Lee's Invasion of Pennsylvania, by James Longstreet (Century Magazine, 1887A)
Hand-to-Hand Fighting at Spotsylvania, by G. Norton Galloway (Century Magazine, 1887B)

Petersburg
The Colored Troops at Petersburg, by Henry Goddard Thomas (Century Magazine, 1887B)
Assault and Repulse at Fort Stedman, by George L. Kilmer (Century Magazine, 1887B)
Grant's Last Campaign, by Horace Porter (Century Magazine, 1888A)
The capture of Petersburg; the surrender at Appomattox Court House.

Rappahannock
Our March Against Pope, by James Longstreet (Century Magazine, 1886A)

Richmond
The Seven Days' Fighting About Richmond, by James Longstreet (Century Magazine, 1885B)
With special reference to the Battle of Frayser's Farm (June 30, 1862)

Savage's Station/White Oak Bridge
Rear-Guard Fighting at Savage's Station, by W.B. Franklin (Century Magazine, 1885B)
And the engagement, the following day (June 30) at White Oak Bridge.

Seven Pines
Manassas to Seven Pines, by J.E. Johnston (Century Magazine, 1885B)
A reply to Jefferson Davis, including descriptions of the Battles of Bull Run and Seven Pines.
The Second Day at Seven Pines, by Gustavus W. Smith (Century Magazine, 1885B)
To the Chickahominy - The Battle of Seven Pines, by Warren Lee Goss (Century Magazine, 1885B)
An excerpt from Recollections of a Private.

The Shenandoah
Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah, by John D. Imboden (Century Magazine, 1885B)

Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh by U.S. Grant (Century Magazine, 1885A)
Albert Sidney Johnston and the Shiloh Campaign, by William Preston Johnston (Century Magazine, 1885A)
Notes of a Confederate Staff Officer at Shiloh, by Thomas Jordan (Century Magazine, 1885A)
Shiloh Reviewed, by D.C. Buell (Century Magazine, 1886A)
Including several comments on the controversy surrounding the battle from the "Civil War Memoranda" section.

Tennessee
Hood's Invasion of Tennessee, by Henry Stone (Century Magazine, 1887B)

Vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg, by U.S. Grant (Century Magazine, 1885B)
A Woman's Diary of the Siege of Vicksburg (Century Magazine, 1885B)

Wilderness Campaign
Preparing for the Wilderness Campaign, by U.S. Grant (Century Magazine, 1886A)
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