Egerton, Douglas R

Summary: Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016

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Perry, James M. (James Moorhead)

Summary: Examines the lives and careers of five presidents who served in the military during the Civil War, and the affect the war had on their presidency.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2003

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Sheridan, Philip Henry

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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 2006

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Gwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)

Summary: Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon, even Robert E. Lee, he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our country's greatest military figures. His brilliance at the art of war tied Abraham Lincoln and the Union high command in knots and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence

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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1996

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Wheeler, Richard.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1991

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh)

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 1999

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Contents: When merit was not enough: Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate defeat in the West, 1862 / Steven E. Woodworth -- "The responsibility is great": Joseph E. Johnston and the war in Virginia / Alan Downs -- Fighting for defeat? George B. McClellan's Peninsula campaign and the change of base to the James River / Ethan S. Rafuse --Generalship on trial: Don Carlos Buell's campaign to Chattanooga /...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1999

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Walsh, George

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002

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Catton, Bruce

Summary: An analysis of the Civil War focuses on Generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant, and discusses the final defeat of General Robert E. Lee.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022

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Thomas, Emory M.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1999

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Woodworth, Steven E.

Summary: General William Tecumseh Sherman famously said, "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it." This statement has contributed to his mythic status as a grim-visaged character who embodied implacable war. Now acclaimed Civil War historian Steven E. Woodworth delivers a nuanced, insightful portrait of Sherman as an original, decisive, and efficient leader who wanted the war to end as quickly as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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Sears, Stephen W.

Summary: The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Catton, Bruce

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1960

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Catton, Bruce

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1969

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Walters, John Bennett.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bobbs-Merrill 1973

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Alexander, Bevin.

Summary: Conventional wisdom holds that the South's defeat was inevitable. Yet military historian Alexander's new look at the Civil War documents how a Confederate victory could have come about--and how close it came to happening. Moving beyond theoretical conjectures to explore actual plans that Confederate generals proposed and the tactics ultimately adopted in the war's key battles, he shows why...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2007

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Guelzo, Allen C.

Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion--a sweeping, singularly immediate, and intimate biography of the Confederate general and his fateful decision to betray his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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Urwin, Gregory J. W.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1990

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Alexander, Edward Porter

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 1989

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Marszalek, John F.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2004

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Sherman, William T 1820-1891

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1990

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