| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
440 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, music ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Flicker of storm -- War challenge at Sumter -- The call for troops -- First Battle of Bull Run -- Donelson and Shiloh -- Farewell, wooden warships! -- Seven days of battles -- Second Bull Run -- Bloody Antietam -- Fredericksburg -- Chancellorsville -- Will Grant take Vicksburg? -- Gettysburg-Vicksburg -- Chickamauga -- Lincoln speaks at Gettysburg -- Missionary Ridge and end of '63 -- Grand strategy -- Blood and anger -- Grants offensive '64 -- Dark summer of '64 -- Sherman and Sheridan -- Crossing a political high divide -- March across Georgia -- Nashville -- Heavy smoke-dark smoke -- Sherman in South Carolina -- Lincoln visits Grant's army -- Grant breaks Lee's line -- Richmond surrenders -- Appomattox-April 9, 1865 -- Plans for peace -- The hurricane spent. |
| Note |
"Taken mainly from Abraham Lincoln: the war years" -- T.p. |
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"With 60 halftones from photographs, and 98 drawings, maps, and sketches" -- T.p. |
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Includes index. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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