Seizure of United States Property.

Floyd's Theft.

Fort Moultrie Evacuated for Sumter.

Fort Pickens.

New Orleans Mint.

Twiggs's Surrender.

Theory of Seceding States as to Property Seized.

Southern Confederacy.

Davis President.

His History.

Inaugural Address.

Powers.

Confederate Government and Const.i.tution.

Slavery.

State Sovereignty.

Tariff.

Good Features.

Bright Prospects of the New Power.

CHAPTER III. THE NORTH IN THE WINTER OF 1860-61.

Apathy.

Disbelief in South's Seriousness.

Divided Opinion.

Suggestions toward Compromise.

Anti-coercion.

Convention at Albany.

Mayor Wood of New York.

Buchanan's Vacillation.

Treason all about Him.

Star of the West Fired on.

Inaction of Congress.

Crittenden's Compromise Lost.

Washington Peace Congress.

Vain.

Earnestness of South.

Lincoln Inaugurated.

His Address.

How Received.

His Difficult Task.

Plight of Army, Navy, Treasury.

Sumter Fired on.

Defended.

Evacuated.

Effect at North.

War Spirit.

75,000 Volunteers.

The Sixth Ma.s.sachusetts in Baltimore.

Washington in Danger.

General Scott's Measures.

March of the Ma.s.sachusetts Eighth and the New York Seventh.

Their Arrival in Washington.

CHAPTER IV. WAR BEGUN

Both Sides Expect a Brief Struggle.

South's Advantages.

Call for Three Years' Men.

Butler in Baltimore.

Maryland Saved to the Union.

Alexandria and Arlington Heights Occupied.

Ellsworth's Death.

Each Side Concentrates Armies in Virginia.

Fight at Big Bethel.

At Vienna.

The Struggle in Missouri.

Lyon and Price.

Battle of Wilson's Creek.

Lyon's Death.

Fremont, Hunter, and Halleck in Missouri.

The Contest in Kentucky.

The State becomes Unionist.

In West Virginia.

Lee and McClellan.

Brilliant Campaign of the Latter.

West Virginia Made a State.

Beauregard at Mana.s.sas.

Patterson's Advance.

Harper's Ferry Taken.

"On to Richmond."

Battle of Bull Run.

Union Defeat and Retreat.

Losses.

Comments.

Depression at the North, followed by New Resolution.

McClellan.

Army of Potomac Organized.

The Capital Safe.

Affair of Ball's Bluff.

The South Hopeful.

And with Reason.

LIST OF ILl.u.s.tRATIONS

THE FIRST GUN FIRED FROM FORT SUMTER.