Battles & Leaders

The original four volumes of Battles and Leaders consisted of articles on the Civil War from Century magazine. (Fairly recently, two other volumes have been published.) Unfortunately, many authors’ names are missing. This may be remedied in the future. Most of the page numbers are correct or just slightly off. To make the following table much more functional, copy it into a spreadsheet, freeze the header row, and turn on the auto-filter. That should make it easy to search and sort the information.

Last updated: 4/8/2014

Vol. Start End Article Author
1 x Preface
1 1 4 Preliminary Events
1 5 6 Organization of the Two Governments
1 7 25 Washington on the Eve of the War Stone, Charles F.
1 26 32 With Slemmer in Pensacola Harbor Gilman, J.H.
1 33 39 Recollections of the Twiggs Surrender Darrow, Caroline Baldwin
1 40 49 From Moultrie to Sumter General Abner Doubleday
1 50 73 Inside Sumter in ’61 Captain James Chester
1 74 81 The First Step in the War General Stephen D. Lee
1 82 83 Notes on the Surrender of Fort Sumter Colonel A. R. Chisolm
1 84 98 War Preparations in the North General Jacob D. Cox
1 99 110 The Confederate Government at Montgomery R. Barnwell Rhett
1 111 125 Jackson at Harper’s Ferry in 1861 General John D. Imboden
1 126 148 McClellan in West Virginia General Jacob D. Cox
1 149 159 Going to the Front Warren Lee Goss
1 160 166 Virginia Scenes in ’61 Mrs. Burton Harrison
1 167 195 McDowell’s Advance to Bull Run General James B. Fry
1 196 228 The First Battle of the Bull Run General G. T. Beauregard
1 229 239 Incidents of the First Bull Run General John D. Imboden
1 240 258 Responsibilities of the First Bull Run General Joseph E. Johnston
1 259 260 General Ewell at Bull Run Major Campbell Brown
1 261 261 The Confederate Commissariat at Manassas Colonel L. B. Northrop
1 262 277 The First Year of the War in Missouri Colonel Thomas L. Snead
1 278 288 In Command in Missouri General John C. Fremont
1 289 297 Wilson’s Creek, and the Death of Lyon General William M. Wherry
1 298 303 Arkansas Troops in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek General N. B. Pearce
1 304 306 The Flanking Column at Wilson’s Creek General Franz Sigel
1 307 313 The Siege of Lexington Colonel James A. Mulligan
1 314 334 The Pea Ridge Campaign General Franz Sigel
1 335 337 Union and Confederate Indians in the Civil War Wiley Britton
1 338 346 Recollections of Foote and the Gun-Boats Captain James B. Eads
1 347 347 Notes on the Life of Admiral Foote John A. Foote
1 348 357 General Polk and the Battle of Belmont Captain William M. Polk
1 358 367 The Gun-Boats at Belmont and Fort Henry Rear-admiral Henry Walke
1 368 372 The Defense of Fort Henry Captain Jesse Taylor
1 373 392 Holding Kentucky for the Union Colonel R. M. Kelly
1 393 397 Marshall and Garfield in Eastern Kentucky Rev Edward O. Guerrant
1 398 428 The Capture of Fort Donelson General Lew Wallace
1 429 429 The Opposing Forces at Fort Donelson
1 430 452 The Western Flotilla Rear-admiral Henry Walke
1 453 459 Ellet and His Steam-Rams at Memphis General Alfred W. Ellet
1 460 462 Sawing Out the Channel Above Island Number Ten Colonel J. Iv. Bissell
1 463 463 The opposing forces at New Madrid (island number ten), fort pillow, and memphis.
1 ? ? Comment on Colonel Bissell’s Paper General Schuyler Hamilton
1 465 486 The Battle of Shiloh Grant, Ulysses S.
1 487 536 Shiloh Reviewed Buell, Don Carlos
1 537 539 The opposing forces at Shiloh
1 540 568 Albert Sidney Johnson at Shiloh
1 569 593 The Campaign of Shiloh Jordan, Thomas
1 594 603 Notes of Confederate Staff-Officers at Shiloh
1 604 606 Surprise and Withdrawl at Shiloh
1 607 610 The March of Lew Wallaces Division to Shiloh
1 611 631 The Union and Confederate Navies
1 632 659 Early Coast Operations in North Carolina
1 660 669 The Burnside Expedition
1 670 670 The opposing forces at Roanoke and New Berne
1 671 691 Du Pont and the Port Royal Expedition
1 692 711 The First Fight of Iron-Clads
1 712 714 Watching the Merrimac
1 714 715 How the Gun-Boat “Zouave” aided the “Congress”
1 715 717 The Plan and Construction of the Merrimac
1 718 718 Notes on The Monitor/Merrimac Fight
1 719 729 In the “Monitor” Turret
1 730 744 The Building of the “Monitor”
1 745 747 The Loss of the Monitor
1 748 750 Negotiations for the Building of the Monitor
2 1 12 Siege and Capture of Fort Pulanski Gillmore
2 13 13 Early Operations in the Gulf Soley
2 14 21 New Orleans Before the Capture
2 22 55 The Opening of the Lower Mississippi
2 56 69 The “Brooklyn” at the Passage of the Forts
2 70 75 Farragut’s Capture of New Orleans
2 76 88 Fighting Farragut Below New Orleans
2 89 91 The Ram “Manassas” at the Passage of the New Orleans Forts
2 91 94 Incidents of the Occupation of New Orleans
2 95 99 Farragut’s Demands for the Surrender of New Orleans
2 99 100 The Water-Battery at Fort Jackson
2 101 102 Confederate Responsabilities for Farragut’s Success
2 103 111 The Confederate Invasion of New Mexico and Arizona
2 112 122 McClellan Organizing the Grand Army
2 123 134 Ball’s Bluff and the Arrest of General Stone
2 135 142 Captain Wilkes’s Seizure of Mason and Slidell
2 143 143 Early Operations on the Potomac River
2 144 152 Operations of 1861 About Fort Monroe
2 153 159 Campaigning to No Purpose
2 160 188 The Peninsular Campaign
2 189 201 Yorktown and Williamsburg
2 202 219 Manassas to Seven Pines
2 220 263 Two Days of Battle at Seven Pines (Fair Oaks)
2 264 270 The Navy in the Peninsular Campaign
2 271 275 Stuart’s Ride Around McClellan
2 275 277 Anecdotes of the Peninsular Campaign
2 278 281 West Virginia Operations Under Fremont
2 282 298 Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah
2 299 301 The Opposing Forces in the Valley Campaigns
2 302 313 Fighting Jackson at Kernstown
2 313 318 The Opposing Forces in the Seven Days’ Battles
2 319 343 Hanover Court House and Gaines’s Mill
2 344 346 The Charge of Cooke’s Cavalry at Gainse’s Mill
2 346 346 Reflections of a Participant in the Charge
2 347 362 Lee’s Attack North of the Chickahominy
2 363 365 Of the Confederate Right at Gainse’s Mill
2 366 382 Rear-Guard Fighting During the Change of Base
2 383 395 McClellan’s Change of Base and Malvern Hill
2 396 405 “The Seven Days” Including Fraiser’s Farm
2 406 428 The Battle of Malvern Hill
2 429 433 With the Cavalry on the Peninsula
2 434 435 The Rear-Guard at Malvern Hill
2 435 438 The Administration in the Peninsula Campaign
2 439 448 Richmond Scene’s in ’62
2 449 494 The Second Battle of Bull Run
2 495 495 Invindication of General Rufus King
2 495 500 The Opposing Force at Cedar Mountain, VA
2 501 511 Jackson’s Raid Around Pope
2 512 526 Our March Against Pope
2 527 527 The Time of Longstreet’s Arrival at Groveton
2 528 529 Marching on Manassas
2 530 538 Jackson’s Foot-Cavalry at the Second Bull Run
2 539 541 The Sixth Corps at the Second Bull Run
2 541 544 Washington Under Banks
2 545 555 From the Peninsula to Antietam
2 556 558 In the Ranks to the Antietam
2 559 582 The Battle of South Mountain, or Boonsboro
2 583 590 Forcing Fox’s Gap and Turner’s Gap
2 591 597 Notes on Crampton’s Gap and Antietam
2 598 603 The Opposing Forces in The Maryland Campaign
2 603 603 The Finding of Lee’s Lost Order
2 604 611 Jackson’s Capture of Harper’s Ferry
2 612 615 The Capitulation of Harper’s Ferry
2 615 618 Stonewall Jackson’s Intentions at Harper’s Ferry
618 618 Opposing forces at Harper’s Ferry
2 618 619 The Historical Basis of Whittier’s “Barbara Frietchie
2 620 629 Stonewall Jackson in Maryland
2 630 660 The Battle of Antietam
2 660 662 With Burnside at Antietam
2 663 674 The Invasion of Maryland
2 675 682 Sharpsburg
2 682 685 Antietam Scenes
2 686 694 A Woman’s Recollection of Antietam
2 695 697 The Case of Fitz John Porter
2 697 699 Canby’s Services in the New Mexican Campaign
2 699 700 Canby at Valverde
2 700 700 Shelby’s New Mexican Campaign
2 701 708 Operations in North Alabama
2 709 716 The Locomotive Chase in Georgia
2 716 716 Notes on the Locomotive Chase
2 717 734 With Price East of the Mississippi
2 734 736 The Battle of Iuka
736 736 The Opposing Forces at Iuka, Miss.
2 737 757 The Battle of Corinth Rosecrans, William S.
2 757 758 Hamilton’s Divion at Corinth Hamilton
2 759 759 An Order to Charge at Corinth Stanley
2 759 760 The Opposing Forces at Corinth
3 1 25 Bragg’s Invasion of Kentucky
3 26 28 Morgan’s Cavalry During Bragg’s Invasion
3 29 30 The Opposing Forces at Perryville, KY
3 31 51 East Tennessee and the Campaign of Perryville
3 52 59 On the Field of Perryville
3 60 61 Notes of a Staff-Officer at Perryville
3 62 69 Cumberland Gap
3 70 85 The Battle of Fredericksburg
3 86 93 The Confederate Left at Fredericksburg
3 94 96 Ransom’s Division at Fredericksburg
3 97 101 A Hot Day in Marye’s Heights
3 102 104 The Removal of McClellan
3 105 120 Sumner’s Right Grand Division
3 121 121 The Crossing of the Rappahannock by the 19th MA
3 122 125 In Front of the Stonewall at Fredericksburg
3 126 127 Why Burnside Did Not Renew the Attack at Fredericksburg
3 128 138 Franklin’s “Left Grand Division”
3 139 141 With Jackson at Hamilton’s Crossing
3 142 147 In the Ranks at Fredericksburg
3 148 151 A Bit of Partisan Service
3 152 153 Stoneman’s Raid in the Chancellorsville Campaign
3 154 171 The Chancellorsville Campaign
3 172 182 The Success and Failure of Chancellorsville
3 183 186 When Stonewall Jackson Turned Our Right
3 187 188 The Charge of the Eight Pennsylvania Cavarly
3 189 202 The Eleventh Corps at Chancellorsville
3 203 214 Stonewall Jackson’s Last Battle
3 215 223 Hooker’s Comments on Chancellorsville
3 224 232 Sedwick at Fredericksburg and Salem Heights
3 233 233 Lee’s Knowledge of Hooker’s Movements
3 234 238 The Opposing Forces in the Chancellorsville Campaign
3 239 243 Hooker’s Appointment and Removal
3 244 250 Lee’s Invasion of Pennsylvania
3 251 254 The Confederate Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign
3 255 283 The First Day at Gettysburg
3 284 286 Incidents of the First Day at Gettyburg
3 287 288 Hancock and Howard in the First Days Fight
3 289 289 Citizens of Gettysburg in the Union Army
3 290 312 The Second Day at Gettysburg
3 313 313 The Council of War on the Second Day
3 314 314 The 20th Maine at Little Round Top
3 315 315 The 146th New York at Little Round Top
3 316 318 The Breastworks at Culp’s Hill
3 319 330 The Struggle for Round Top
3 331 338 Kershaw’s Brigade at Gettysburg
3 339 353 Lee’s Right Wing at Gettysburg
3 354 354 The Charge of Pickett, Pettigrew, and Trimble
3 355 356 A Reply to General Longstreet
3 357 368 The Great Charge and Artillery Fighting at Gettysburg
3 369 384 The Third Day at Gettysburg
3 385 386 General Hancock and the Artillery at Gettysburg
3 387 392 Repelling Lee’s Last Blows at Gettysburg
3 393 396 Farnsworth Charge and Death
3 397 405 The Cavalry Battle Near Gettysburg
3 406 419 Meade at Gettysburg
3 420 428 The Confederate Retreat From Gettysburg
3 429 433 A Prisoner’s March From Gettysburg to Staunton
3 434 440 The Opposing Forces at Gettysburg
3 441 458 The Conquest of Arkansas
3 459 461 The Opposing Forces in Arkansas
3 462 471 The Assault on Chickasaw Bluffs Morgan, George W.
3 472 481 Jefferson Davis and the Mississippi Campaign
3 482 492 The Defense of Vicksburg
3 493 538 The Vicksburg Campaign Grant, Ulysses S.
3 539 542 The Vicksburg Mine
3 543 545 The Terms of Surrender
3 546 550 The Opposing Forces in the Vicksburg Campaign
3 551 570 Naval Operations in the Vickburg Campaign Soley, James Russell
3 571 571 Gulf Operations in 1862 and 1863
3 572 579 The Confederate Gun-Boat “Arkansas”
3 580 580 The Confederate Torpedoes in the Yazoo
3 581 581 Union Vessels in the Vicksburg Operations
3 582 584 Military Operations in Louisiana in 1862
3 585 585 The Opposing Forces at Baton Rouge, LA
3 586 597 The Capture of Port Hudson
3 598 599 The Opposing Forces at Port Hudson
3 600 609 Bragg’s Advance and Retreat
3 610 612 The Opposing Forces at Stones River, TN
3 613 631 The Battle of Stone’s River
3 632 633 The Union Left at Stone’s River
3 634 634 Morgan’s Ohio Raid
3 635 637 Manoeuvering Bragg out of Tennessee
3 638 662 Chickamauga – The Great Battle of the West
3 663 664 The Crisis at Chickamauga
3 665 667 Reenforcing Thomas at Chickamauga
3 668 671 Notes on the Chickamauga Campaign
3 672 675 The Opposing Forces at Chickamauga
3 676 678 The Little Steamboat the Opened the “Cracker Line”
3 679 711 Chattanooga Grant, Ulysses S.
3 712 713 Sherman’s Attack at the Tunnel Byers, S.H.M.
3 714 717 Comments on General Grant’s Chattanooga Smith, William Farrar
3 717 718 Comments on General Grant’s Chattanooga Cist, Henry M.
3 718 718 Comments on General Grant’s Chattanooga Smith, William Farrar
3 719 726 The Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga Fullerton, Joseph
3 727 730 Opposing Forces in the Chattanooga Campaign
3 731 744 The Defense of Knoxville
3 745 750 Longstreet at Knoxville
3 751 0 The Opposing Forces at Knoxville
4 1 22 The Defense of Charleston
4 23 26 The Confederate Defense of Fort Sumter
4 27 29 Minor Operations of the South Atlantic Sqaudron Under Du Pont
4 30 31 The Early Monitors
4 32 46 Du Pont’s Attack at Charleston
4 47 50 The Boat Attack on Sumter
4 51 51 South Atlantic Blocking Squadron
4 52 71 The Army Before Charleston in 1863
4 72 73 The “Swamp Angel”
4 74 75 The Opposing Land Forces at Charleston
4 76 80 The Battle of Olustee
4 81 94 From Gettysburg to the Coming of Grant
4 95 96 Kilpatrick’s and Dahlgren’s Raid to Richmond
4 97 117 Preparing for the Campaigns of ’64 Grant, Ulysses S.
4 118 144 From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor
4 145 151 General Grant on the Wilderness Campaign [Extract from his report] Grant, Ulysses S.
4 152 169 Through the Wilderness
4 170 174 Hand-to-Hand Fighting at Spotsylvania
4 175 175 The Death of General John Sedgwick
4 176 176 McAllister’s Brigade at the Bloody Angle
4 177 178 General Edward’s Brigade at the Bloody Angle
4 179 185 The Opposing Forces at the Beginning of Grant’s Campaign Against Richmond
4 186 187 The Opposing Forces at Cold Harbor
4 188 193 Sheridan’s Richmond Raid Rodenbough, Theophilus F.
4 194 194 The Death of General J. E. B. Stuart
4 195 205 The Defense of Drewry’s Bluff
4 206 212 Butler’s Attack on Drewry’s Bluff Smith, William Farrar
4 213 220 Cold Harbor McMahon, Martin T.
4 221 229 The Eighteenth Corps at Cold Harbor Smith, William Farrar
4 230 222 Notes on Cold Harbor
4 223 236 Sheridan’s Trevillian Raid
4 237 239 The Cavalry Fight at Trevillian Station
4 240 246 General Lee in the Wilderness Campaign
4 247 The Grand Strategy of the Last Year of the War
4 277 Opposing Sherman’s Advance to Atlanta
4 277 283 Opening the Atlanta Campaign
4 284 292 The Opposing Forces in the Atlanta Campaign
4 293 325 The Struggle for Atlanta
4 326 330 Hood’s Second Sortie at Atlanta
4 331 335 The Georgia Militia About Atlanta
4 336 344 The Defense of Atlanta
4 345 361 The Red River Campaign
4 362 365 The Navy in the Red River
4 366 366 The Mississippi Flotilla in the Red River Expedition
4 367 367 The Opposing Forces in the Red River Campaign
4 368 368 The Opposing Forces in Arkansas
4 369 378 The Defense of the Red River
4 379 399 Farragut at Mobile Bay
4 400 400 The Opposing Forces at Mobile
4 401 405 The Ram “Tennessee” at Mobile Bay
4 406 407 The Lashing of Admiral Farragut in the Rigging
4 408 409 The Defense of Fort Morgan
4 410 411 Land Operations Against Mobile
4 412 412 Closing Operations in the Gulf and Western Rivers
4 413 415 Cavalry Operations in the West Under Rosecrans and Sherman
4 416 418 The Sooy Smith Expedition
4 419 421 Forrest’s Defeat of Sturgis at Brice’s Cross-Roads
4 422 424 John Morgan in 1864
4 425 437 The Invasion of Tennessee
4 438 439 General Cheatham at Spring Hill
4 440 464 Repelling Hood’s Invasion of Tennessee
4 465 471 The Union Cavalry in the Hood Campaign
4 472 474 The Opposing Forces at Nashville
4 475 479 Operations in East Tennessee and South-West Virginia
4 480 486 The Battle of New Market
4 487 490 Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864
4 491 491 The Opposing Forces at New Market
4 492 492 The Opposing Forces in the Lynchburg Expedition
4 493 498 Early’s March to Washington in 1864
4 499 499 The Opposing Forces at the Monocacy
4 500 521 Sheridan in the Shanadoah Valley
4 522 529 Winchester, Fisher Hill, and Cedar Creek
4 530 532 The Opposing Forces at Cedar Creek
4 533 539 Operations South of the James River Kautz, August V.
4 540 544 Four Days of Battle at Petersburg Beauregard
4 545 560 The Battle of The Petersburg Crater
4 561 562 In the Crater
4 563 567 The Colored Troops at Petersburg
4 568 573 Actions on the Weldon Railroad
4 574 578 General Grant on the Siege of Petersburg
4 579 583 Gordon’s Attack at Fort Stedman
4 584 589 The Recapture of Fort Stedman
4 590 594 The Opposing Forces at Petersburg and Richmond
4 595 599 The Confederate Cruisers
4 600 614 Cruise and Combats of the “Alabama”
4 615 624 The Duel Between the “Alabama” and the “Kearsarge”
4 625 627 First Battle of the Conederate Ram “Albemarle”
4 628 633 The “Albemarle and the “Sassscus”
4 634 641 The Destruction of the “Albemarle”
4 642 654 The Defense of Fort Fisher
4 655 660 The Defense at Fort Fisher
4 661 662 The Opposing Forces at Fort Fisher
4 663 666 Sherman’s Advance from Atlanta
4 667 670 The Georgia Militia During Sherman’s March to the Sea
4 671 679 Marching Through Georgia and the Carolinas
4 679 680 The Failure to Capture Hardee Chisholm, Alexander R.
4 681 695 Sherman’s March From Savannah to Bentonville
4 696 699 The Opposing Forces in the Campaign of the Carolinas
4 700 704 The Battle of Bentonville
4 705 707 Closing Operations in the James River
4 708 722 Five Forks and the Pursuit of Lee
4 723 723 General Warren at Five Forks, and te Court of Inquiry
4 724 724 Lee’s Report of the Surrender at Appomattox
4 725 728 The Fall of Richmond
4 729 746 The Surrender at Appomattox Court House
4 747 747 General Lee’s Farewell Address to His Army
4 748 753 The Opposing Forces in the Appomattox Campaign
4 754 759 Final Operations of Sheridan’s Army
4 760 761 Wilson’s Raid Through Alabama and Georgia
4 762 766 Last Days of the Confederacy
4 767 Notes on the Union and Confederate Armies
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