A Crisis in Confederate Command
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Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
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ISBN : 9780807140673
Author :
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
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ISBN : 9780807140673
Author : John Lewis Peyton
Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Confederate States of America
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Author : Jeffery Scott Prushankin
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Page : 302 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Generals
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Author : Cecil William Battine
Publisher : London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and Company
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 1905
Category : History
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Author : John Ashworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1139561030
The Republic in Crisis, 1848–1861 analyses the political climate in the years leading up to the American Civil War, offering for students and general readers a clear, chronological account of the sectional conflict and the beginning of the Civil War. Emerging from the tumultuous political events of the 1840s and 1850s, the Civil War was caused by the maturing of the North and South's separate, distinctive forms of social organisation and their resulting ideologies. John Ashworth emphasises factors often overlooked in explanations of the war, including the resistance of slaves in the South and the growth of wage labour in the North. Ashworth acquaints readers with modern writings on the period, providing a new interpretation of the American Civil War's causes.
Author : Ethan Sepp Rafuse
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 36,39 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780742551251
In this reexamination of the last two years of Lee's storied military career, Ethan S. Rafuse offers a clear, informative, and insightful account of Lee's ultimately unsuccessful struggle to defend the Confederacy against a relentless and determined foe. This book provides a comprehensive, yet concise and entertaining narrative of the battles and campaigns that highlighted this phase of the war and analyzes the battles and Lee's generalship in the context of the steady deterioration of the Confederacy's prospects for victory.
Author : Steven E. Woodworth
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Jefferson Davis is a historical figure who provokes strong passions among scholars. Through the years historians have place him at both ends of the spectrum: some have portrayed him as a hero, others have judged him incompetent.
Author : Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0807174068
In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. He places contemporary understanding of the Civil War, both academic and general, in conversation with testimony from those in the Union and the Confederacy who experienced and described it, investigating how mid-nineteenth-century perceptions align with, or deviate from, current ideas regarding the origins, conduct, and aftermath of the war. The tension between history and memory forms a theme throughout the essays, underscoring how later perceptions about the war often took precedence over historical reality in the minds of many Americans. The array of topics Gallagher addresses is striking. He examines notable books and authors, both Union and Confederate, military and civilian, famous and lesser known. He discusses historians who, though their names have receded with time, produced works that remain pertinent in terms of analysis or information. He comments on conventional interpretations of events and personalities, challenging, among other things, commonly held notions about Gettysburg and Vicksburg as decisive turning points, Ulysses S. Grant as a general who profligately wasted Union manpower, the Gettysburg Address as a watershed that turned the war from a fight for Union into one for Union and emancipation, and Robert E. Lee as an old-fashioned general ill-suited to waging a modern mid-nineteenth-century war. Gallagher interrogates recent scholarly trends on the evolving nature of Civil War studies, addressing crucial questions about chronology, history, memory, and the new revisionist literature. The format of this provocative and timely collection lends itself to sampling, and readers might start in any of the subject groupings and go where their interests take them.
Author : Joseph T. Glatthaar
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
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How the relationships among the men at the top helped win and lose the Civil War.
Author : John Lewis Peyton
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Confederate States of America
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