This Terrible War

Name: This Terrible War
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ISBN: 9780321125583

ISBN-10: 0321125584

ISBN-13: 9780321125583

Edition: 2003

Authors: Michael Fellman

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Explores the complexities of the Civil War era, detailing the political, economic, military, and human events of this tragic American conflict. Personal and candid excerpts from diaries, newspapers, and songs illustrate the human meanings of the war. Detailed examination of the chain of events in the contexts of the years leading up to the Civil War and follows the war's aftermath. Reports on the home front where the impact of the Civil War was felt most. In this engaging account of the Civil War, the war that Abraham Lincoln called in his Second Inaugural Address, "this terrible war," the authors take the readers beyond the flags and bugles to explore this event for what it was rather…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/9/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.848

Thomas Bahdeis a visiting scholar in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in the journal Michael Fellmanis Professor of History Emeritus at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of seven books on American history and the Civil War, including ShermanandThe Making of Robert E. Lee.



Preface


Prologue to Civil War: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry



Before the War



Commonalities and Conflict: Slavery and the American Republic



Political Collapse: 1848-1860



Civil War



Southerners Secede and Amateurs Go to War: December 1860-December 1861



Discovering the Scope of the War: 1861-1862



Reckoning with Slavery, Reckoning with Freedom



Attack and Die: November 1862-January 1863



The Other War



An Inconclusive Year: 1863



A War of Exhaustion: 1864-1865



Aftermath of War



Mixed Messages from the Victors: Northern Politics and Southern Reconstruction: 1863-1868



White and Black Reconstruction in the South: 1865-1872



Destroying Reconstruction


Epilogue: Remembering and Forgetting the Civil War


Selected Bibliography


Credits


Index