The American Civil War

by Wolseley, Garnet Wolseley; Rawley, James A.

• ISBN13: 9780811700931
• ISBN10: 0811700933
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Stackpole Books

Summary

Field Marshal Viscount Garnet Joseph Wolseley, born to a well-heeled Dublin family, was assigned in 1861 to service with the British army in Canada. Here he became engrossed by the mounting conflict in the United States and eventually decided to take two months' leave in order to observe the situation firsthand. His writings on the Civil War provide a fascinating and little-presented perspective on America's bloodiest conflict. Editor James Rawley's introductions to each of the book's four pieces (as well as his lengthy one at the beginning of the book) provide the necessary context for a modern reading of Wolseley's essays. Rawley's new preface to this edition revisits Wolseley's writings in the light of the past thirty-five years of Civil War scholarship.

Author Biography

James A. Rawley earned degrees at the University of Michigan and took his doctorate at Columbia University. He has taught at the University of Nebraska, Columbia, New York University, Hunter College, and Sweet Briar College. He is presently the Carl Adolph Happold professor-emeritus at the University of Nebraska Lincoln's Department of History

Table of Contents

Preface to Reprinting	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
A Month's Visit to the Confederate Headquarters	p. 1
General Lee	p. 49
An English View of the Civil War	p. 71
Part I	p. 73
Part II	p. 103
Part III	p. 123
Part IV	p. 147
Part V	p. 167
Part VI	p. 187
Part VII	p. 205
Index	p. 225
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