Letters of Captain Geo. Hamilton Perkins, U.S.N.
Author: George Hamilton Perkins
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 380
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Author: George Hamilton Perkins
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 380
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 270
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lorien Foote
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 697
ISBN-13: 0190903058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssembles contributions from thirty-nine leading historians of the American Civil War into a coherent attempt to assess the war's impact on American society
Author: Chester G. Hearn
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2001-05
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780807140918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn April 24, 1862, Federal gunboats made their way past two Confederate forts to ascend the Mississippi, and the Union navy captured the city of New Orleans. How did the South lose its most important city? In this exhaustively researched, authoritative, well-argued study, Chester Hearn examines the decisions, actions, individuals, and events that brought about the capture of New Orleans - and forever weakened the Confederate war machine. Hearn directs his inquiry to the heart of government, both Union and Confederate, and takes a hard look at the selection of military and naval leaders, the use of natural and financial resources, and the performances of all personnel involved. The decisions of Jefferson Davis, Stephen R. Mallory, and three Confederate secretaries of war, he holds, were as much to blame for the fall of New Orleans as David Farragut's warships. Hearn also scrutinizes the role of Major General Mansfield Lovell and evaluates the investigation that ended his career. Hearn's explorations bring us into a flourishing New Orleans and introduce Louisiana leaders Thomas O. Moore and the debilitated old men sent to prepare the state for war: Major General David E. Twiggs and Commodore Lawrence Rousseau. We follow their trifling efforts to defend the lower Mississippi and General Lovell's frustrations in attempting to arm forts and obtain cooperation from the navy, and we come to understand the dismay of such leaders as P.G.T. Beauregard and Braxton Bragg as they witnessed this bungling. Hearn traces the building of the ironclads Manassas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, and investigates the reason for their failure to defend New Orleans.
Author: Jeffrey Hummel
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2013-11-18
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0812698444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war’s significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America’s turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. While the chapters tell the story of the Civil War and discuss the issues raised in readable prose, each chapter is followed by a detailed bibliographical essay, looking at all the different major works on the subject, with their varying ideological viewpoints and conclusions. In his economic analysis of slavery, Professor Hummel takes a different view than the two major poles which have determined past discussions of the topic. While some writers claim that slavery was unprofitable and harmful to the Southern economy, and others maintain it was profitable and efficient for the South, Hummel uses the economic concept of Deadweight Loss to show that slavery was both highly profitable for slave owners and harmful to Southern economic development. While highly critical of Confederate policy, Hummel argues that the war was fought to prevent secession, not to end slavery, and that preservation of the Union was not necessary to end slavery: the North could have let the South secede peacefully, and slavery would still have been quickly terminated. Part of Hummel’s argument is that the South crucially relied on the Northern states to return runaway slaves to their owners. This new edition has a substantial new introduction by the author, correcting and supplementing the account given in the first edition (the major revision is an increase in the estimate of total casualties) and a foreword by John Majewski, a rising star of Civil War studies.
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 872
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 154
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 1826
ISBN-13: 9780835216036
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book is a companion volume to Biographical books, 1950-1980, completing a comprehensive one hundred and five year bibliography of biographical and autobiographical works published or distributed in the United States"--Preface.
Author: New York Public Library
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 656
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes its Report, 1896-19 .