The Oxford handbook of the American Civil War / edited by Lorien Foote, Earl J. Hess.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foote, Lorien, 1969- editor.

Hess, Earl J., editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

United States.

History.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource : maps (black and white).

Other Title:

Handbook of the American Civil War

American Civil War

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This title assembles the contributions of 39 leading scholars of the Civil War, each chapter advancing the central thesis that operational military history is decisively linked to the social and political history of Civil War America. The chapters cover all three major theaters of the war and include discussions of Bleeding Kansas, the Union naval blockade, the South West, American Indians, and Reconstruction. Each essay offers a particular interpretation of how one of the war's campaigns resonated in the larger world of the North and South. Taken together, these chapters illuminate how key transformations operated across national, regional, and local spheres, covering key topics such as politics, race, slavery, emancipation, gender, loyalty, and guerrilla warfare.

Contents:

The Union Occupation of Coastal North Carolina: Foundations for Freedom / David Silkenat

The Civil War in Arkansas, 1862: Divided Loyalties and Partisan Warfare / Thomas W. Cutrer

New Mexico and the Central Great Plains in the Civil War: Testing U.S. Authority / Stacey L. Smith

Indian Territory: Social and Political Unraveling / Clarissa W. Confer

Shiloh and Corinth: The Campaigns that Changed the Civil War / Stephen Engle

Mississippi Valley, 1862: Politics of Recruitment / Michael D. Pierson

The Peninsula Campaign and Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, 1862 / Christopher Stowe

The Seven Days' Battles and Public Opinion / Timothy J. Orr

The Kentucky Campaign of 1862 and Drought / Kenneth W. Noe

Second Bull Run/Manassas: Clash of Partisan Armies / John H. Matsui

Campaign for Charleston: Military Science, Emancipation, and Social Collapse / Lorien Foote

The Maryland Campaign: Carnage and Emancipation / D. Scott Hartwig

The Battle of Fredericksburg: Military Occupation, Urban Conflict, and the Defeat of Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Potomac / Barton A. Myers

Grant's North Mississippi Campaign, Chickasaw Bayou, and the Bottomlands / Earl J. Hess

Stones River: Making Emancipation Work / Earl J. Hess

Vicksburg and Port Hudson / Earl J. Hess

The Chancellorsville Campaign: Strategic Contingency Point / Christian B. Keller

The Gettysburg Campaign: War Comes to Free Soil / Carol Reardon

The Battle of Helena, the Little Rock Campaign, and the Capture of Fort Smith, 1863 / Carl Moneyhan

The Tullahoma and Chickamauga Campaigns: Discord, Disruption, and Defeat / Andrew S. Bledsoe

The Chattanooga and Knoxville Campaigns: War in the Switzerland of America / Aaron Astor

The Overland Campaign: No Turning Back / Lisa Tendrich Frank, Brooks D. Simpson

The Campaign for Atlanta: Displacing Civilians and Tearing Up Georgia / Earl J. Hess

Petersburg, Virginia, June-August 1864: Confederate City in the Crisis of War / A. Wilson Greene

The Red River Campaign, 1864: The Union's Effort to Conquer, Pacify, and Reconstruct Louisiana and Texas / T. Michael Parrish

The 1864 Invasion of Missouri: Sterling Price, Guerrilla Warfare, and the Fundamental Failure of the Confederate Military / Joseph M. Beilein Jr.

Sherman's March to the Sea: Home Front Becomes Battlefront / Anne J. Bailey

Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville: Battle, Insurgency, and Freed People on the Road to Emancipation in the Heartland / B. F. Cooling

Petersburg Besieged and the Valley on Fire: The Beginning of the End in Virginia / James Marten

The Carolinas Campaign: A War Reckoning / Christopher Phillips

Texas, Mobile, and Wilson's Raid: International Repercussions / Earl J. Hess

Bleeding Kansas as a Call to Arms / Kristen T. Oertel

The Fall of Petersburg and Appomattox / Elizabeth R. Varon

Occupation, 1865-1877 / Andrew F. Lang

Introduction / Lorien Foote, Earl J. Hess

The Union Blockade: A Slow Asphyxiation / Craig L. Symonds

Missouri 1861: War and Identity / Ethan S. Rafuse

First Bull Run/Manassas: Antebellum Military Culture / Barbara A. Gannon

Eastern Kentucky and Northwestern Virginia, 1861-1862: Terrain and Loyalty / Brian D. McKnight

Forts Henry and Donelson: The Material War / Jason Phillips.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 8, 2021).

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Print version :

ISBN:

9780190903077

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