Banks's Army and the Fleet.

CHAPTER XI.

ESCAPE OF BANKS AND PORTER. 176

The Fleet descends Red River to Grand Ecore--Banks concentrates
his Army there--Taylor's Force weakened by General Kirby
Smith--Confederates harass Rear of Federal Column--The Federals
cross the River at Monette's Ferry and reach Alexandria--Retreat
of the Fleet harassed--It passes over the Falls at Alexandria.

CHAPTER XII.

EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. 196

The Mississippi controlled by the Federals--Taylor assigned
to the Command of Alabama, Mississippi, etc.--Forrest's
Operations--General Sherman in Georgia--Desperate Situation
of Hood--Remnant of his Army sent to North Carolina.

CHAPTER XIII.

CLOSING OPERATIONS OF THE WAR--SURRENDER. 221

Fall of Mobile--Last Engagement of the War--Johnston-Sherman
Convention--Taylor surrenders to General Canby--Last Hours of the
"Trans-Mississippi Department."

CHAPTER XIV.

CRITICISMS AND REFLECTIONS. 230

Gettysburg--Shiloh--Albert Sidney Johnston--Lack of
Statesmanship in the Confederacy--"King Cotton"--Carpet-Baggers.

CHAPTER XV.

RECONSTRUCTION UNDER JOHNSON. 239

Interceding for Prisoners--Debauchery and Corruption in
Washington--General Grant--Andrew Johnson--Stevens, Winter
Davis, Sumner--Setting up and pulling down State Governments--The
"Ku-Klux"--Philadelphia Convention.

CHAPTER XVI.

RECONSTRUCTION UNDER GRANT. 256

Demoralization at the North--a Corrupt Vice-President--a
Hypocritical Banker--a Great Preacher profiting by his own
Evil Reputation--Knaves made Plenipotentiaries--A Spurious
Legislature installed in the Louisiana State House--General
Sheridan in New Orleans--An American Alberoni--Presidential
Election of 1876--Congress over-awed by a Display of Military
Force.

CHAPTER XVII.

CONCLUSION. 268

The Financial Crisis--Breaches of Trust--Labor
Troubles--Destitution--Negro Suffrage fatal to the South.

DESTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION.

CHAPTER I.

SECESSION.

The history of the United States, as yet unwritten, will show the causes
of the "Civil War" to have been in existence during the Colonial era,
and to have cropped out into