Abstract

The Comte De Paris's History of The War

The article reports that the third and fourth volumes of the "History of the Civil War in America," by Comte de Paris, have just appeared. The third volume opens with a section which will be read with a peculiar interest, as the Comte de Paris was a witness and an actor in all the events he describes. The bloody conflicts of Fair-Oaks are narrated with much detail. The second book of the third volume contains the account of the naval operations before New Orleans, Memphis, Vicksburg, and Fort Pulaski; the third brings back to Virginia and to Maryland, and ends with the battle of Antietam, which put an end to the invasion of the latter State. The fourth volume begins with an account of the now-forgotten operations in Kentucky and in Tennessee. Comte de Paris writes a long chapter on the laws which the war made necessary. He shows what measures were taken by the Governments at war during the first years of the struggle in order to raise their large armies and to provide them with all the necessaries and accessories of war.