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Describes the internal conflicts, hardships, and violence that afflicted the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Author : Steven A. Channing
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN :
Describes the internal conflicts, hardships, and violence that afflicted the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Author : Daniel E. Sutherland
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
Culpeper County, Virginia, was occupied by the Northern army, recaptured by the Confederacy, and finally ceded to the North in the course of the Civil War. Told largely through the diaries, papers and correspondence of residents and such personalities as Robert E. Lee and Walt Whitman, this story captures both the intimate and sweeping sides of war. photos.
Author : Fletcher Pratt
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0486320049
Best one-volume history brings the events, figures, and battles of monumental conflict vividly to life. Absorbing details of military campaigns, battlefield strategies, and personalities revealed in an audacious style.
Author : Time Life
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 1985
Category :
ISBN :
Author : James M. McPherson
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
The Civil War is the central event in the American historical consciousness. While the Revolution of 1776-1783 created the United States, the Civil War of 1861-1865 preserved this creation from destruction and determined, in large measure, what sort of nation it would be. The war settled two fundamental issues for the United States: whether it was to be a nation with a sovereign national government, or a dissoluble confederation of sovereign states; and whether this nation, born of a declaration that all men are created with an equal right to liberty, was to continue to exist as the largest slaveholding country in the world. The Constitution of 1789 had left these issues unresolved. By 1861 there was no way around them; one way or another, a solution had to be found. - Preface.
Author : Fletcher Pratt
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1786257785
This one-volume history on the Civil War brings the events, figures, and battles of monumental conflict vividly to life. Absorbing details of military campaigns, battlefield strategies, and personalities revealed in an audacious style that carries readers breathlessly along from the day of Lincoln's inauguration to Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. [Source: Goodreads.com] “The present one-volume history of the war is written for the man-in-the-street who, perhaps justifiably, has not the time to follow out the details of controversies as to the exact sequence of events, especially in some of the battles. It is an effort to follow the main currents of fact and emotion during the war; to include practically everything that contributed to the final result and to omit nearly everything else.” [From Author’s Foreword] Richly illustrated by distinguished artist Merritt Cuttler with over 40 maps and illustrations.
Author : Earl J. Hess
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 16,81 MB
Release : 1997-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0700614214
I saw enough to sicken the heart. . . . The scenes which I witnessed were enough to overthrow all imaginations concerning the glory of war; but, dreadful as they were, I hope and believe that I would be willing to suffer the worst, . . . rather than prove a traitor to the trust which our country reposes in all her sons.--J. Spangler Kieffer, Pennsylvania Militia With its relentless bloodshed, devastating firepower, and large-scale battles often fought on impossible terrain, the Civil War was a terrifying experience for a volunteer army. Yet, as Earl Hess shows, Union soldiers found the wherewithal to endure such terrors for four long years and emerge victorious. A vivid reminder that the business of war is killing, Hess's study plunges us into the hellish realms of Civil War combat-a horrific experience crowded with brutalizing sights, sounds, smells, and textures. We share the terror of being shot at for the first time and hear the "grating sound a minie ball makes when it hits a bone instead of the heavy thud when it strikes flesh." We are assaulted by choruses of groans from the wounded and dying and come to understand why some soldiers returned to battle with great dread Drawing extensively upon the letters, diaries, and memoirs of Northern soldiers, Hess reveals their deepest fears and shocks, and also their sources of inner strength. By identifying recurrent themes found in these accounts, Hess constructs a multilayered view of the many ways in which these men coped with the challenges of battle. He shows how they were bolstered by belief in God and country, or simply by their sense of duty; how they came to rely on the support of their comrades; and how they learned to muster self-control in order to persevere from one battle to the next. Although our ability to appreciate war as it was conducted in the previous century has been clouded by our familiarity with modern conflicts, Hess's study conveys that reality with an immediacy rarely matched by other books. Even more, it urges us to reconsider these soldiers not as victims of the battlefield but rather as victors over the worst that war can inflict.
Author : Fletcher Pratt
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 1948
Category : United States
ISBN :
Om den nordamerikanske borgerkrig 1861-1865, herunder om styrkernes organisation og struktur, forholdet mellem nord og syd og de militære kampagner.
Author :
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 2004-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312331238
A must-have for Civil War buffs, this book features the original "New York Times" coverage of the most tumultuous, bloody, and defining period in America's history. 50 photos. 6 maps.
Author : Allan Nevins
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 1992
Category : United States
ISBN : 9780020354451
"The War for the Union: The Organized War (1863-1864)" and "The Organized War to Victory (1864-1865)" complete the award-winning magnum opus "Ordeal of the Union." In this volume Allan Nevins concludes his definitive history of the American Civil War. There is the bloody grinding-down of Confederate resolve, as the Union Army burns Atlanta, Sherman marches to the sea, Lee fails at Gettysburg, and the slow death grip between two great armies in the Battle of the Wilderness winds down in to Appomottox. As these events take center stage, Nevins never forgets the importance of the economic build-up of the North, and the ways that exigencies of war served to create a new concept and new techniques of organization. The work closes with the assasination of Lincoln, the succession of Johnson, and the demobilization of the armies. Returning to the pursuits of peace, America is at once faced with new problems, and a new optimism. "Ordeal of the Union" is one of the most important historical works ever written, and is now available for the first time (complete and unabridged) in paperback in four handsome volumes.