Battles and leaders of the Civil War . Volume 6 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter Cozzens

• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (631 pages)
• Disciplina: 973.73
• Soggetto topico: Generals - United States - History - 19th century; Generals - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
• Altri autori: CozzensPeter <1957->
• Note generali: Supplement to the four volume 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: ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""CONTENTS""; ""List of Maps""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Editorial Method""; ""PART 1: PRELUDE TO WAR""; ""1. From West Point to the Battlefield""; ""2. The Seventh Regiment at the Capital, 1861""; ""PART 2: THE WAR IN 1861""; ""3. Alexandria, a Graphic Account of Its Capture""; ""4. The Battle of Rich Mountain""; ""5. At the Battle of Bull Run with the Second New Hampshire Regiment""; ""6. What I Saw at Wilson's Creek""; ""PART 3: LEADERS, CIVILIAN AND MILITARY""; ""7. Lincoln and Grant""; ""8. Robert E. Lee"" ; ""PART 4: THE WAR IN 1862""""9. Stonewall Jackson't Discontent""; ""10. My Campaign in East Kentucky""; ""11. A Boy at Shiloh""; ""12. A Soldier's Letter from Shiloh""; ""13. Sketching under Fire at Antietam""; ""14. The Battle of Perryville""; ""15. In the Ranks at Stones River""; ""PART 5: THE WAR IN 1863""; ""16. Grierson's Cavalry Raid""; ""17. Recollections of Marye's Heights and Salem Church""; ""18. Criminal Blundering at Chancellorsville""; ""19. With Hood at Gettysburg""; ""20. Further Recollections of Gettysburg""; ""21. Another View of Gettysburg"" ; ""22. General ""Jeb"" Stuart at Gettysburg""""23. Port Hudson: The Forlorn Hope and the Siege""; ""24. Plain Living at Johnson's Island""; ""25. A Romance of Morgan's Rough Reider""; ""26. The Assault on Fort Wagner""; ""27. The Mistakes of Grant in Relation to the Chickamauga Campaign""; ""28. Grant at Chattanooga""; ""PART 6: THE WAR IN 1864""; ""29. Dahlgren's Raid""; ""30. The Siege of Petersburg""; ""31. The Battle of Petersburg""; ""32. The Crater""; ""33. With Sherman at Atlanta""; ""34. The Price Campaign of 1864""; ""35. Sheridan at Winchester""; ""36. General Schofield at Franklin"" ; ""PART 7: FIRESIDE AND FIELD of BATTLE""""37. The Railroad Brigade""; ""38. Telegraphing in Battle""; ""39. A View of the Confederacy from the Inside""; ""PART 8: THE WAR IN 1865""; ""40. The Failure of the Hampton Conference""; ""41. The Fall of Fort Fisher""; ""42. The Burning of Columbia""; ""43. The Last Days of the Rebellion""; ""44. The Last Days of Lee's Army""; ""45. An Effort to Rescue Jefferson Davis""; ""46. The Last Chapter in the History of the War""; ""PART 9: EPILOGUE""; ""47. Why the Confederacy Failed""; ""Notes on Sources and Contributors""; ""Map and Illustration Credits"" ; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 6 (like Volume 5), assembled by the acclaimed military historian Peter Cozzens, carries on the tradition of its namesake, offering a dazzling new collection of articles written by military and civilian leaders, North and South, on a broad array of war-related topics. Sifting carefully through reports from newspapers, magazines, personal memoirs, and letters, Peter Cozzens's Volume 6 brings readers more of the best first-person accounts of marches, encampments, skirmishes, and full-blown battles, as seen by participants on both sides of the conflict. Alongside the experiences of lower-ranking officers and enlisted men are accounts from key personalities including General John Gibbon, General John C. Lee, and seven prominent generals from both sides offering views on "why the Confederacy failed." This volume includes one hundred twenty illustrations, including sixteen previously uncollected maps of battlefields, troop movements, and fortifications. - Back cover.
• Titolo autorizzato: Battles and leaders of the Civil War
• ISBN: 1-283-15560-5; 9786613155603; 0-252-09089-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778911103321
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