| Description |
xix, 522 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Lincoln takes charge / David Herbert Donald -- Band of brothers: the West Point Corps / Thomas Fleming -- The ordeal of General Stone / Stephen W. Sears -- What took the North so long? / Williamson Murray -- Failed Southern strategies / James M. McPherson -- How Lincoln won the war with metaphor / James M. McPherson -- Grant's Tennessee gamble / Geoffrey Perret -- Malvern Hill / Stephen W. Sears -- The last word on the lost order / Stephen W. Sears -- Defending Marye's Heights / Joseph H. Alexander -- A hellish start to the year : the Battle of Stones River / Tom Wicker -- Stonewall Jackson's last march / Stephen W. Sears -- The antagonists of Little Round Top : the victor / Gideon Rose -- [The antagonists of Little Round Top] : the other man / Glenn W. LaFantasie -- Packs down-- Charge! : the frontal attack / Paddy Griffith -- When Lee was mortal / Gary W. Gallagher -- The Stonewall enigma / John Bowers -- Lord High Admiral of the U.S. Navy: David Dixon Porter on the Mississippi / Joseph T. Glatthaar -- Grant at Vicksburg : a lesson in operational art / Joseph T. Glatthaar -- Hawk in the fowlyard : Jeb Stuart / John M. Taylor -- The Rock of Chickamauga : George H. Thomas / John Bowers -- Considering Longstreet's legacy / Glenn W. LaFantasie -- Paladin of the republic : Philip H. Sheridan / Paul Andrew Hutton -- The Andersonvilles of the North / Philip Burnham -- "Kill the last damn one of them" : the Fort Pillow massacre / Noah Andre Trudeau -- The boys of New Market / Geoffrey Norman -- The walls of 1864 / Noah Andre Trudeau -- The fiery trail of the Alabama / John M. Taylor -- Jubal Early's raid on Washington / Charles C. Osborne -- The Crater / John M. Taylor -- The Battle of Westport / Noah Andre Trudeau -- The second surrender : Bennitt's Farm, North Carolina / John M. Taylor -- Rebel without a war : the Shenandoah / Robert F. Jones -- Ulysses S. Grant's final victory / James M. McPherson. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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| Added Author |
Donald, David Herbert, 1920-2009.
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Cowley, Robert.
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| ISBN |
0399147373 (acid-free paper) |
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