CONTENTS   KENTUCKY.

CHAPTER I. The "Dark and Bloody Ground"     Battle Ground of Northern and Southern Indians   Importance of a Correct History of the South in the "War   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........

CHAPTER II. Attitude of Kentucky Before and During the War   Origin of the Doctrine of Neutrality   Why the Southern Men Acquiesced   How They Were Deceived and Overreached   Violation of Neutrality by Union Party   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. First Confederate Troops   Gen. S. B. Buck-ner   Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston   The Confederate Line in Kentucky   John H. Morgan   General Sherman Succeeds Anderson   "War Must be Carried to Southern Firesides"    Sherman Superseded by Buell   First Engagement in Kentucky   Confederate Organization at Bowling Green   Kentucky Commands.........................................

CHAPTER IV. Political Movements   John C. Breckinridge Enters Confederate Army   Organization of Provisional Government   George W. Johnson Chosen Governor   Confederate Senators and Congressmen   Kentucky Admitted as a State in the Southern Confederacy   Confederate Defeat at Fishing Creek   Fall of Fort Henry........................

CHAPTER V. General Grant Invests Fort Donelson   Sortie in Force by the Confederates   Its Success   Troops Ordered Back into the Trenches   Gallant Fighting of Second and Eighth Kentucky   General Buckner Surrenders to Grant....................................................

CHAPTER VI. Effects of the Surrender of Fort Donelson    Reorganization of Confederate Army at Murfreesboro    Johnston's Junction with Beauregard, Bragg and Polk    Grant at Pittsburg Landing   Johnston Advances   Battle of Shiloh   Part Taken by Kentucky Confederate Troops-Death of General Johnston and Governor Johnson.........

CHAPTER VII. Reorganization of the Army at Corinth    General Breckinridge Sent to Vicksburg    Battle of Baton Rouge    Bragg Asks for Breckinridge to Command a Division in Kentucky Campaign   He Marches from Knoxville for Kentucky.....................................................

CHAPTER VIII. Summer Campaign in 1862   Buell's Campaign for the Reduction.of East Tennessee   The Occupation

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