Draper, J. W. Geschichte des Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieges. 3 Bände

This three-volume work provides a comprehensive account of the political and military events of the American Civil War, 1861-1865, from the hand of contemporary witness John W. Draper, who served on a commission to inspect military hospitals during the war years, among other things.

Content overview of Volume 1: Physical characteristics of North America; The American population, colonisation and westward expansion; Tendency towards antagonism, imposed on the American population by climate and other causes. Development of Unionism and growth of slavery; Enmity between the North and South assumes the character of a social struggle; Struggle of the free and slave states for supremacy in the Union; Preparation for war. Summary of contents of Volume 2: Progress and culmination of the conspiracy; Powerful development of war operations. Corresponding legislative and military preparations; Preludes to the great campaigns; Campaigns to open the Mississippi and break the great east-west line of the Confederacy; Campaign to capture Richmond; The blockade and operations connected with it; The foreign relations and internal policy of the Republic; Summary of contents to Vol. 3: Conquest of the Central Region; The Struggle in the Atlantic Region; The Pressure on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Mississippi Fronts of the Confederacy; Operations Preliminary to or Connected with the Final Campaigns; Breakthrough of the Cotton States by the Western Army; Pushing the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia Back into the Fortifications of Richmond by the Eastern Army; Internal Angles of the Republic and the Confederacy; The Fall of the Confederacy; Conclusion.