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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813553803321

Autore

Leigh Philip

Titolo

Lee's lost dispatch and other civil war controversies / / Philip Leigh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Yardley, Pennsylvania : , : Westholme Publishing, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-59416-598-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 pages)

Disciplina

973.7

Soggetti

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The biggest Confederate error? -- The biggest Federal error? -- Preempting the Civil War -- Treasury innovations and mischiefs -- The camelot couple -- The burning of Atlanta -- Choosing Sherman or Thomas -- The Spring Hill spies -- Ghosts of the lost dispatch -- Florida after Vicksburg -- Lincoln and McClellan.

Sommario/riassunto

"...Presents eleven stories form these turbulent times that afford a better understanding of how the war unfolded and how it was fought. The stories range form the Union's delayed introduction of repeating arms and why a commercial steamer and not a warship was sent to relieve Fort Sumter to how Robert E. Lee's critical dispatch at the battle of Antietam may have been lost and whether William T. Sherman was the best choice to lead the Union's western offensive in 1864."--Back cover.