"Rally, once again!" : selected Civil War writings of Alan T. Nolan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nolan, Alan T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

United States.

Generals--United States--Biography.

Generals.

Generals--Confederate States of America--Biography.

Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.

United States. Army. Iron Brigade (1861-1865).

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Book reviews.

Genre:

Biographies.

Book reviews.

Reviews.

Physical Description:

x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : Madison House Publishers, [2000]

Summary:

This new collection of previously published material celebrates Alan T. Nolan's life-long research and study of the Civil War. Included are essays on the Iron Brigade, Gettysburg, and leaders such as Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, John Gibbon, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Central to all of the essays is Nolan's admiration for the valor of the common soldier and his conviction that the War was neither romantic nor glorious, though its results--emancipation and the maintenance of the Union--were surely monumental.

Contents:

I. Leaders

Lawyer Lincoln

Myth and Fact (Harvard Law School Bulletin, Nov. 1964.) 3

General Lee

A Different View (The Color Bearers, American Blue & Gray Association, 1995.) 10

The Price of Honor: R. E. Lee and the Question of Confederate Surrender (Virginia Cavalcade, Vol. 41, No. 3, Winter 1992, and Vol. 41, No. 4, Spring 1992. Originally in Lee Considered, University of North Carolina Press, 1991.) 16

Confederate Leadership at Fredericksburg (The Fredericksburg Campaign, University of North Carolina Press, 1995.) 36

Iron Brigade General: John Gibbon (Iron Brigade General: John Gibbon, A Rebel in Blue, Greenwood Press, 1993.) 55

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War, University of North Carolina Press, 1992.) 58

Considering Lee Considered: Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause (New Perspectives on the Civil War, Madison House Publishers, Inc., 1998.) 61

Historians' Perspectives on Lee (Columbiad, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1999.) 82

Ex Parte Milligan: A Curb of Executive and Military Power (We The People, Indiana Historical Society, 1987.) 100

II. Gettysburg

Three Flags at Gettysburg (Gettysburg Magazine, issue 1, July 1989) 133

Reynolds of Gettysburg ("For God's Sake, Forward!," Farnsworth House, 1995.) 144

R. E. Lee and July 1 at Gettysburg (First Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership, Kent State University Press, 1992.) 147

In the Bloody Railroad Cut at Gettysburg (In the Bloody Railroad Cut at Gettysburg, Morningside House, 1990.) 173

III. The Iron Brigade

Virginia's Unwelcome Visitors (Virginia Country Magazine, Vol. 4, 1967.) 177

Rufus Dawes' Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers (The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1962.) 191

History of the Sauk County Riflemen (Butternut Press, 1984.) 200

The Twenty-Fourth Michigan of the Iron Brigade (Butternut Press, 1984.) 211

Giants in Tall Black Hats (Civil War Times, Vol. 3, No. 8, 1961.) 222

Brave Men's Tears: The Iron Brigade at Brawner Farm (Brave Men's Tears: The Iron Brigade at Brawner Farm, Morningside House, 1988.) 226

John Brawner's Damage Claim (Giants in Their Tall Black Hats, Indiana University Press, 1998.) 230

IV. Selected Reviews

Generals McClellan and Hancock (Pennsylvania History, Vol. 57, No. 2, 1990.) 247

Generals Lee and Jackson (American Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 2, April 1993.) 256

Atlanta, Pea Ridge, and Chickamauga (Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 89, No. 4, 1993.) 258

Tennessee's War (Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 62, No. 3, 1966.) 261

Old Abe the War Eagle (Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 83, No. 1, 1987.) 262

Why the Confederacy Lost (Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 101, No. 4, 1993.) 263

Lee and Grant: A Dual Biography (Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 86, No. 2, 1985.) 264

Commanders of the Army of the Potomac (Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 59, No. 2, 1963.) 266

Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend (The Washington Times, March 8, 1997.) 269

War in Kentucky (Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 91, No. 4, 1995.) 272

Indiana in the War of the Rebellion (Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 57, No. 4, 1961.) 273

The North Fights the Civil War (Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 90, No. 4, 1994.) 275

A. Lincoln, Prairie Lawyer (Stanford Law Review, Vol. 13, 1961.) 277

Lincoln as a Lawyer (Indiana Law Journal, Indiana University School of Law, Vol. 38, No. 4, 1943.) 281

The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 93, No. 2, 1995.) 284

Black Troops, White Commanders, and Freedmen During the Civil War (Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 88, No. 4, 1992.) 286

The Confederate Tide Rising (Columbiad, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1998.) 287

General Robert F. Hoke: Lee's Modest Warrior (The Washington Times, August 24, 1996.) 289

Battle Cry of Freedom (Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 85, No. 4, 1989.) 292.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0945612710

OCLC:

43109975