Offers opposing viewpoints on issues associated with the Civil War including secession, slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the President's right to suspend civil liberties.
Period prints, photographs, and documents accompany this penetrating examination of the political, military, and social aspects of the War Between the States, tracing the conflict from the earliest divisions between North and South to the ...
No event has transformed the United States more fundamentally - or been studied more exhaustively - than the Civil War. In Writing the Civil War, fourteen distinguished historians present a...
The second problem was if Porter failed, or if a large number of his ships were damaged or destroyed, the campaign was effectively ended (and with it, Grant's career). As the calls for Grant's dismissal rose with each passing day of no ...
FRANCIS REDDING TILLOU NICHOLLS LOUIS LANA's HONEST POLITICLAN RANCIS REDDING Tillou NiCHolls rode a bandwagon of reform and popularity to postwar success in Louisiana. He did so in part from having donated two appendages to his country ...
From iron-clads, submarine torpedoes, and military balloons to pontoon bridges, grenades, and siege artillery, this excellent work describes what materiel was available to the armies and navies of both sides.
The book is supplemented by accounts of the "Lightning Mule Brigade," the "Charge of the Mule Brigade," five appendices and 37 illustrations.
... Us: The Civil War Diary of Amos Stouffer of Chambersburg,” Civil War History 38 (September 1992): 214–15; Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, Here Come the Rebels! ... Harry W. Pfanz, Gettysburg: The First Day (Chapel Hill: 342 FATEFUL LIGHTNING.
By the time of the Civil War, the railroads had advanced to allow the movement of large numbers of troops even though railways had not yet matured into a truly integrated transportation system.
Examines the popular songs of the Civil War and those who composed and played them, includes biographies of musicians of the era and a dictionary of Civil War music.
Campaignes of the Civil War - inclusive.