Focuses on the military campaigns, including strategy and logistics, military leaders, and common soldiers
The Civil War Era James M. McPherson. with cognitive skills and knowledge, also served the needs of a growing capitalist economy. Schools were “the grand agent for the development or augmentation of national resources,” wrote Horace ...
The resources of the Firestone Library at Princeton University and of the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California, provided most of the research material on which this book is based. A year at the Center for Advanced Study ...
Features color illustrations and maps that covers the period of the Mexican War until the end of the Civil War in 1865, focusing in detail on the military campaigns, including strategy and logistics, and key figures
Antietam James M. McPherson. 11. 12. 13. 14. 16. 17. 18. 19. 6. ... John B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, ed. ... 10, 28, 1862; “Journal of a Secesh Lady”: The Diary of Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston, 1860–1866, ed.
One evening, Bruce, one of my eight year old recruits in the Cave, was taking his initiation test to proceed to rite ofpassage training. I had ceased videoing our recruits' initiation tests by that point, but this evening I wanted to ...
The Battle Cry of Freedom
He is a popular visitor at schools with his costumed portrayals of historic characters. He lives in Minneapolis with his author wife, Patricia Bauer. This is David's fifth book with Sleeping Bear.
Suspenseful and inspiring, this is the story of how Lincoln, with almost no previous military experience before entering the White House, assumed the powers associated with the role of commander in chief, and through his strategic insight ...
Why Men Fought in the Civil War James M. McPherson. 2. Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank (Indianapolis, 1952), 40; Chauncey Cooke to Doe Cooke, Jan. 6, 1863, in "A Badger Boy in Blue: The Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke,” WMH 4 ...
No single word better expresses what Americans believe their country has stood for from 1776 right down to the ... upon the whole character and conduct of the men of '76,” said the antislavery poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant.