Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 5 . Volume 5 / / edited by Peter Cozzens

• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxii, 714 p. :) : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 973.7/3
• Soggetto topico: Generals - United States; Generals - United States - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: CozzensPeter <1957->
• Note generali: Supplement to the four vol. work: Battles and leaders of the Civil War / edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel. 1887-1888.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Recollections of the John Brown raid / Colonel Alexander R. Boteler -- Mob violence in Baltimore / General John C. Robinson -- the first battle of the war : Big Bethel / General John B. Magruder -- With generals Bee and Jackson at First Manassas / Major William M. Robbins -- Folly and fiasco in West Virginia / General William B. Taliaferro -- Missouri's unionists at war / Montgomery Blair -- Avenging First Bull Run : the Port Royal Expedition / General Egbert L. Viele -- Life in the White House with President Lincoln / John Hay -- Reminiscences of General Grant / General James Harrison Wilson -- The Real Stonewall Jackson / General Daniel Harvey Hill -- Recollections of Nathan Bedford Forrest / General Dabney H. Maury -- In the Air above Yorktown / General George Armstrong Custer -- Our first battle, Bull Pasture Mountain [McDowell] / Captain Alfred E. Lee -- An undeserved stigma : Fitz John Porter at Second Bull Run / General Ulysses S. Grant -- A witness to mutiny at Antietam / George W. Smalley -- The reserve at Antietam / Colonel Thomas M. Anderson -- My story of Fredericksburg / General Joshua L. Chamberlain -- Lee at Fredericksburg / Major J. Horace Lacy -- Desperation and heroism at the Battle of Valverde / Lieutenant Franklin Cook -- The Shiloh Campaign / General Pierre G. T. Beauregard -- The Great Locomotive Chase / Private Jacob Parrott -- The attack on Corinth / Captain Clinton H. Parkhurst -- Losing a Division at Stones River / General Richard W. Johnson -- When the Rappahannock ran red / General James R. O'Beirne -- The Campaign and battle of Gettysburg / General Oliver Otis Howard -- Gettysburg : a reply to General Howard / General Winfield S. Hancock -- Why Lee lost at Gettysburg / General Henry Heth -- Lincoln at Gettysburg / Isaac Wayne MacVeagh -- A winter at Vicksburg / General Dabney H. Maury -- Defending Port Hudson / Colonel P. F. de Gournay -- From Tullahoma to Chattanooga / General William S. Rosecrans -- Chickamauga / Colonel Benjamin F. Sawyer -- Holding Burnside in check in East Tennessee / General Samuel Jones -- Charging with Sheridan up Missionary Ridge / General Michael V. Sheridan -- The Forgotten fight on Tunnel Hill / General Green B. Raum -- Grant's conduct of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Campaigns / General Edward Porter Alexander -- Lee's response to Grant's overland Campaign of 1864 / Colonel William R. Livermore -- Grant and Sheridan in 1864 : a study in contrasts / President Rutherford B. Hayes -- A tough tussle with Sheridan / Colonel Jacob Weddle -- Boys in battle at New Market / John S. Wise -- Fighting for Petersburg / Thomas T. Roche -- A terrible day : The Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864 / General John W. Fuller -- The March to the Sea, an Armed Picnic / General William P. Carlin -- The Red River Expedition / Captain William S. Burns -- A question of command at Franklin / Generals David S. Stanley and Jacob D. Cox, and Colonel Henry Stone -- "Little Jim," the pride of the regiment / Harry M. Kieffer -- They followed the army : the anguish of runaway slaves / Lieutenant John Walton -- The victory at Fort Fisher / General John W. Ames -- The conference at city point / General William T. Sherman -- Lee at appomattox / General Edward Porter Alexander -- My negotiations with General Sherman / General Joseph E. Johnston -- The last days of the confederate government / Stephen R. Mallory -- An interview with General Longstreet / Henry W. Grady.
• Sommario/riassunto: Indispensable must-reads for all Civil War buffs and historians, bringing together little-known and never before gathered first-hand accounts, articles, maps, and illustrations The first four volumes of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, published in the late nineteenth century, became the best-selling and most frequently cited works ever published on the Civil War. Volume 5, assembled by the acclaimed military historian Peter Cozzens, carries on the tradition of its namesake, offering a dazzling new collection of fresh material written by military and civilian leaders, North and South, on a broad array of war-related topics. Featured articles include General Grant on the second battle of Bull Run, General Beauregard on the Shiloh campaign, General Sherman on the conference at City Point, Joshua Chamberlain on the Fredericksburg campaign, and many more. Also presented are dozens of maps and more than one hundred illustrations.
• Titolo autorizzato: Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 5
• ISBN: 9780252098505; 0252098501
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154638003321
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