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The Pocket Essential American Civil War / Phil Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Phil.
- Series:
- Pocket essentials.
- Pocket essentials
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil war.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (96 p.)
- Other Title:
- American Civil War
- Place of Publication:
- Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A concise and well-informed introduction to the most traumatic and bloodiest war in American history. Examines the deep-rooted causes of the war and the political and military leadership of the North and the South. Recounts the events that led from the early battles through the terrible confrontations at Gettysburg and Vicksburg to the South's final surrender at Appomattox in 1865. Complete with maps, chronology and details of further resources, this is the ideal introduction to the war that shaped American history.
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Part One: The Causes
- Secession, Union And The Ideals Of The Republic
- Slavery And 'King Cotton'
- The Character Of The North
- Abolition Movement
- Westward Expansion
- From The Missouri To The 1850 Compromise
- 'Bleeding Kansas' And The Dred Scott Case
- John Brown And The Election Of Lincoln
- Part Two: The Opponents
- The Army Before The War
- Volunteer Troops And Their Leaders
- Population, Manufacturing And Wealth
- The South
- The North
- The Emergence Of Abolition As A War Aim
- Part Three: The War
- Overview
- Baptism Of Fire: Bull Run
- 'Little Mac' And The Army Of The Potomac: The Peninsula Campaign
- The West: Fall Of Forts Henry And Donelson, And The Battle Of Shiloh
- Lee's First Invasion Of The North
- Bragg's Invasion Of Kentucky
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- Winter Campaigns 1862- 3
- Fall Of Vicksburg
- Chancellorsville: Lee's Finest Hour
- Lee's Second Invasion Of The North
- The West: Chickamauga And Chattanooga
- Grant Takes Command
- Grant's Offensive In Virginia, Spring And Summer 1864
- From Atlanta To The Sea
- Andersonville, Pows And Black Soldiers
- The Road To Appomattox
- Postlude: A War For Freedom?
- Freedom
- Equality
- Chronology
- Recommended Reading.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- OCLC:
- 70768130
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