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by Harry W. Pfanz
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
For good reason, the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg have received the lion's share of attention from historians. With this book, however, the critical first day's fighting finally receives its due. After sketching the background of the Gettysburg campaign and recounting the events...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The Maryland campaign of September 1862 ranks among the most important military operations of the American Civil War. Crucial political, diplomatic, and military issues were at stake as Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan maneuvered and fought in the western part of the state. The climactic clash...
The Fredericksburg Campaign
Decision on the Rappahannock
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
It is well this is so terrible! We should grow too fond of it," said General Robert E. Lee as he watched his troops repulse the Union attack at Fredericksburg on 13 December 1863.
This collection of seven original essays by leading Civil War historians reinterprets the bloody Fredericksburg...
by Harry W. Pfanz
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
In this companion to his celebrated earlier book, Gettysburg--The Second Day, Harry Pfanz provides the first definitive account of the fighting between the Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill--two of the most critical engagements fought...
Pickett’s Charge, July 3 and Beyond, Omnibus E-book
Includes Pickett’s Charge—The Last Attack at Gettysburg by Earl J. Hess and Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory by Carol Reardon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Pickett's Charge, the assault on the Union lines on Cemetery Ridge ordered by Robert E. Lee on 3 July 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, holds a central place in the nation's collective memory of the Civil War. Available for the first time as an Omnibus E-book Edition, this two-volume...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Spotsylvania Campaign was a crucial period in the protracted confrontation between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in spring 1864. Approaching the campaign from a variety of perspectives, the contributors to this volume explore questions regarding high command, tactics and strategy, the impact...
Petersburg to Appomattox
The End of the War in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The last days of fighting in the Civil War's eastern theater have been wrapped in mythology since the moment of Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House. War veterans and generations of historians alike have focused on the seemingly inevitable defeat of the Confederacy after Lee's flight...
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee squared off for more than nine months in their struggle for Petersburg, the key to the Confederate capital at Richmond. Featuring some of the...
The Shenandoah Valley Campaigns, Omnibus E-book
Includes The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862 and The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
This Omnibus ebook contains the two-volume collection of essays, edited by Gary Gallagher, that covers the Shenandoah Valley Campaigns of 1862 and 1864.
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This volume explores the Shenandoah Valley campaign, best known for its role in establishing Thomas J. "Stonewall"...
by Carol Reardon
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
If, as many have argued, the Civil War is the most crucial moment in our national life and Gettysburg its turning point, then the climax of the climax, the central moment of our history, must be Pickett's Charge. But as Carol Reardon notes, the Civil War saw many other daring assaults and stout defenses....
The Spanish Civil War
Revolution and Counterrevolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This monumental book offers a comprehensive history and analysis of Republican political life during the Spanish Civil War. Completed by Burnett Bolloten just before his death in 1987 and first published in English in 1991, The Spanish Civil War is the culmination of fifty years of dedicated and painstaking...
Thaddeus Stevens
Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
One of the most controversial figures in nineteenth-century American history, Thaddeus Stevens is best remembered for his role as congressional leader of the radical Republicans and as a chief architect of Reconstruction. Long painted by historians as a vindictive 'dictator of Congress,' out to punish...
The Law's Conscience
Equitable Constitutionalism in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The Law's Conscience is a history of equity in Anglo-American juris-prudence from the inception of the chancellor's court in medieval England to the recent civil rights and affirmative action decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Peter Hoffer argues that equity embodies a way of looking at...
Roots of Secession
Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War.
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