The Civil War A History

by Hansen, Harry; Gallagher, Gary; Wheeler, Richard S.

• ISBN13: 9780451205032
• ISBN10: 0451205030
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: NAL Trade

Summary

A new edition of the award-winning history of the Civil War provides a comprehensive overview of the conflict from a variety of perspectives, describing the causes of the war, the battles and campaigns, the military leaders and politicians involved, the ideas and values that it exemplifies, and its long-term consequences. Reprint.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	vii
Introduction	1	(2)
Foreword	3	(6)
The Historic Backgrounds of the Issues of Secession and Slavery	9	(14)
The Political Crises: From the Dred Scott Decision to Secession	23	(14)
The Fall of Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861	37	(10)
The Issues in Washington and Richmond in 1861	47	(16)
Robert E. Lee and the Offer of the United States Command	63	(6)
The First Battle of Bull Run, or Manassas	69	(14)
Mason and Slidell: Confederate Diplomacy Abroad	83	(8)
Du Pont's Squadron at Port Royal	91	(2)
The Battle for Missouri	93	(10)
The Capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson	103	(22)
The Battle of Shiloh	125	(16)
The Monitor and the Merrimack	141	(16)
Capture of the Mississippi River Forts and New Orleans	157	(12)
George McClellan and the Army of the Potomac	169	(41)
General Pope and Second Bull Run (Manassas)	210	(17)
McClellan Halts Lee at Antietam	227	(36)
Jeb Stuart's Chambersburg Raid	263	(3)
The Road to Emancipation	266	(12)
Burnside and the Battle of Fredericksburg	278	(15)
Chancellorsville	293	(33)
The Vicksburg Campaign	326	(32)
The Gettysburg Campaign	358	(51)
Two Minutes to Immortality	409	(5)
The National Election of 1864	414	(8)
General Sherman's Campaign in Georgia	422	(27)
Battles in the West: Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge	449	(31)
The Great Locomotive Chase	480	(6)
The Raids of Morgan, Dahlgren, and Quantrill	486	(8)
Farragut Is Lashed to the Rigging at Mobile Bay	494	(5)
Battle of the Kearsarge and Alabama	499	(6)
Wilderness and Spotsylvania	505	(17)
From Spotsylvania to Cold Harbor	522	(16)
Early Threatens Washington	538	(13)
Fighting in the Shenandoah Valley	551	(12)
Thomas Versus Hood in Tennessee	563	(7)
Cushing Destroys the Albemarle	570	(3)
Negro Troops in the Union Army	573	(5)
Sherman's March to the Sea	578	(13)
Beauregard and Butler at Drewry's	591	(4)
Grant Moves South of the James	595	(19)
The Red River Expeditions of Banks and Porter	614	(7)
The Bombardment and Capture of Fort Fisher	621	(2)
The Long Road to Appomattox	623	(18)
Johnson's Surrender to Sherman	641	(7)
The Last Days of Abraham Lincoln	648	(7)
Index	655