A portrait of a pivotal chapter in the Civil War, “featuring scheming politicians, bumbling generals, and an increasingly disheartened Northern public” (Brooks Simpson, author of Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822–1865). In Mr. Lincoln Goes to War, award-winning historian William Marvel focused on President Abraham Lincoln’s first year in office. In Lincoln’s Darkest Year, he paints a picture of 1862—again relying on recently unearthed primary sources and little-known accounts to offer newfound detail of this tumultuous period. Marvel highlights not just the actions but also the deeper motivations of major figures, including Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, George B. McClellan, Stonewall Jackson, and, most notably, Lincoln himself. As the action darts from the White House to the battlefields and back, the author sheds new light on the hardships endured by everyday citizens and the substantial and sustained public opposition to the war. Combining fluid prose and scholarship with the skills of an investigative historical detective, Marvel unearths the true story of our nation’s greatest crisis.
One of Longstreet's divisions climbed the mountain during the night and scrambled down the other side under Micah Jenkins, who positioned most of it to hold Hooker back while John Bratton's South Carolina brigade assailed ...
A conclusion to the four-part series chronicles the Virginia and Atlanta campaigns of 1864 through the final surrender of Confederate forces in June 1865. [For] the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, one can look forward to years ...
When the well-drilled 2nd Massachusetts marched into Martinsburg under a veteran West Pointer on July 12, a lieutenant in that regiment found the rest of Patterson's army particularly wanting in discipline. The troops' laxity bespoke ...
Voorhees, Daniel W. “The Liberty of the Citizen.” In Speeches ofDaniel W. Voorhees, of Indiana, Embracing His Most Prominent Forensic, Political, Occasional, and Literary Addresses. . . with a Short Biographical Sketch.
Howe's verses were an immediate sensation among the strong minority of Northern women and men for whom the Union was not worth saving unless it could be cleansed of the stain of slavery. Her words expressed with coiled power the radical ...
In Political Ideology and Voting Behavior in the Age of Jackson, edited by Joel H. Silbey, 106–17. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1973. McDonough, James Lee. Shiloh: In Hell Before Night. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press ...
... but neither was the case.116 Lee had left responsibility for everything from the Boonsborough road downstream to Brigadier General David Jones, who commanded six brigades from Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Presents information about Abraham Lincoln's life and his struggle to lead the Union as President during the Civil War.
In this radiant book, poet and biographer Daniel Mark Epstein tracks the parallel lives of these two titans from the day that Lincoln first read Leaves of Grass to the elegy Whitman composed after Lincoln’s assassination in 1865.
A gripping account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.