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Author: United States Military Academy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-10-21
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1476782628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Comprises six chapters of the West Point history of warfare that have been revised and expanded for the general reader"--Page vii.
Author: Susan B. Katz
Publisher: Rockridge Press
Published: 2021-10-12
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ISBN-13: 9781638079354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David W. Blight
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997-05-29
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0195113764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter, beginning a war that would last four years and claim many lives. This book brings together a collection of voices to help explain the commencement of Am.
Author: William C. Davis
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780809447008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas A. Durwood
Publisher:
Published: 1990-12-01
Total Pages: 1600
ISBN-13: 9780382240447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Geoffrey C. Ward
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1994-09-06
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0679755438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the celebrated PBS television series about the men and women who lived through the cataclysmic trial of our nationhood—the complete text of the magisterial illustrated work of history that The New York Times hailed as "a treasure for the eye and mind." "The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things.... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads: the suffering, the enormous tragedy of the whole thing." —Shelby Foote, from The Civil War Now Geoffrey Ward's magisterial work of history is available in a text-only edition that interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through the cataclysmic trial of our nationhood: not just Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Robert E. Lee, but genteel Southern ladies and escaped slaves, cavalry officers and common foot soldiers who fought in Yankee blue and Rebel gray. The Civil War also includes essays by our most distinguished historians of the era: Don E. Fehrenbacher, on the war's origins; Barbara J. Fields, on the freeing of the slaves; Shelby Foote, on the war's soldiers and commanders; James M. McPherson, on the political dimensions of the struggle; and C. Vann Woodward, assessing the America that emerged from the war's ashes.
Author: Sarah J. Purcell
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2022-02-16
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1469668343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a diverse set of people to contribute to changing American national identities. These funerals featured lengthy processions that sometimes crossed multiple state lines, burial ceremonies open to the public, and other cultural productions of commemoration such as oration and song. As Sarah J. Purcell reveals, Americans' participation in these funeral rites led to contemplation and contestation over the political and social meanings of the war and the roles played by the honored dead. Public mourning for military heroes, reformers, and politicians distilled political and social anxieties as the country coped with the aftermath of mass death and casualties. Purcell shows how large-scale funerals for figures such as Henry Clay and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson set patterns for mourning culture and Civil War commemoration; after 1865, public funerals for figures such as Robert E. Lee, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, and Winnie Davis elaborated on these patterns and fostered public debate about the meanings of the war, Reconstruction, race, and gender.
Author: James L. Stokesbury
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2011-03-15
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0062064789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Definitive One-Volume History of the American Civil War The American Civil War (1861–1865) was the pivotal conflict of the nation’s history. It was a war defined by savage brutality, untold human costs, and monumental political crises that left the literal and social landscape of the nation forever changed. One hundred fifty years later, it continues to hold a powerful grip on the American psyche. In A Short History of the Civil War, noted historian James L. Stokesbury dramatically and concisely chronicles the important events leading up to the war and, using maps, recounts its decisive battles while describing the strategies and tactics of the North’s and South’s prominent commanders. Drawing on fascinating details and little-known facts, Stokesbury also brings to life the generals—Grant, Lee, Hooker, McClellan, Jackson—and the unsung heroes of this great struggle between the Union and the Confederacy.
Author: Alan Axelrod
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781402763908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Civil War is shrouded in myth--but this entry in "The Real History" series provides a clear, fresh view of the events for curious readers who want an intellectual, but not dryly academic, presentation of this inexhaustibly fascinating subject. Covering everything from the roots of the conflict to Reconstruction, Axelrod addresses a range of less-discussed subjects, explores the war's turning points, and rounds out this absorbing study with diary excerpts, letters, sidebars, and contemporary photography, art, and maps."
Author: Kevin M. Levin
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2019-08-09
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1469653273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth. Moreover, Levin shows that belief in the existence of black Confederate soldiers largely originated in the 1970s, a period that witnessed both a significant shift in how Americans remembered the Civil War and a rising backlash against African Americans' gains in civil rights and other realms. Levin also investigates the roles that African Americans actually performed in the Confederate army, including personal body servants and forced laborers. He demonstrates that regardless of the dangers these men faced in camp, on the march, and on the battlefield, their legal status remained unchanged. Even long after the guns fell silent, Confederate veterans and other writers remembered these men as former slaves and not as soldiers, an important reminder that how the war is remembered often runs counter to history.
