Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

by McPherson, James M.

• ISBN13: 9780345359421
• ISBN10: 0345359429
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1989-01-01
• Publisher: Ballantine Books

Summary

The esteemed, Pulitzer Prize-Winning history of the Civil War that brings to vivid life, the generals, the presidents, the soldiers, politicians, Abolitionists, Southern fire-eaters, Northern barn-burners, Copperheads, and Know-Nothings. An instant classic, this is the single volume on the tragic war and its background that every historian--amateur or trained--will want to have on the shelf to read again and again.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction	p. xvii
Prologue: From the Halls of Montezuma	p. 3
The United States at Midcentury	p. 6
Mexico Will Poison Us	p. 47
An Empire for Slavery	p. 78
Slavery, Rum, and Romanism	p. 117
The Crime Against Kansas	p. 145
Mudsills and Greasy Mechanics for A. Lincoln	p. 170
The Revolution of 1860	p. 202
The Counterrevolution of 1861	p. 234
Facing Both Ways: The Upper South's Dilemma	p. 276
Amateurs Go to War	p. 308
Farewell to the Ninety Days' War	p. 339
Blockade and Beachhead: The Salt-Water War, 1861-1862	p. 369
The River War in 1862	p. 392
The Sinews of War	p. 428
Billy Yank's Chickahominy Blues	p. 454
We Must Free the Slaves or Be Ourselves Subdued	p. 490
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny	p. 511
John Bull's Virginia Reel	p. 546
Three Rivers in Winter, 1862-1863	p. 568
Fire in the Rear	p. 591
Long Remember: The Summer of '63	p. 626
Johnny Reb's Chattanooga Blues	p. 666
When This Cruel War Is Over	p. 689
If It Takes All Summer	p. 718
After Four Years of Failure	p. 751
We Are Going To Be Wiped Off the Earth	p. 774
South Carolina Must Be Destroyed	p. 807
We Are All Americans	p. 831
Epilogue: To the Shoals of Victory	p. 853
Abbreviated Titles	p. 863
Bibliographic Note	p. 865
Index	p. 883
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