Tragic Glory : A Concise, Illustrated History of the Civil War

by Gibboney, Douglas Lee

• ISBN13: 9781572493162
• ISBN10: 157249316X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: White Mane Pub

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps	vii
Introduction	xi
Prelude: How the Civil War Began	1	(8)
The Divisive Issue of Slavery
The Question of States Rights
Two Sons of Kentucky
1861	9	(16)
Fort Sumter: The First Shots of War
Murder at the Marshall House
The Mornefool Sound of the Drums
First Fighting at Bull Run
Southern Dreams, Northern Might
I Like It Very Well So Far
All Quiet Along the Potomac
Rose Greenhow: Rebel Spy
Running the Blockade
1862	25	(34)
Bloody Shiloh
First Battle of Ironclads
Great Locomotive Chase
Enemy on the Edge of Richmond
Three Times Around the Yankee Army
John Pope and Second Manassas
Antietam: Lee's First Invasion
The Emancipation Proclamation
Burnside's Fredericksburg Fiasco
General Bragg Invades Kentucky
1863	59	(32)
The Grey Ghost
Chancellorsville: Stonewall's Final Fight
Gettysburg: Lee's Second Invasion of the North
The Colorful General Sickles
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Vicksburg: Key to the Mississippi
A Wild Rebel Raid Through the Midwest
The Sacking of Lawrence, Kansas
Chickamauga: River of Death
Chattanooga: Battle Above the Clouds
The Hanging of Sam Davis
Prisons: North and South
1864	91	(39)
Turned Out of Our House
Kilpatrick's Richmond Raid
Grant Goes into the Wilderness
Spotsylvania: The Bloody Angle
Cold Harbor: The Battle Grant Would Always Regret
Sherman Captures Atlanta
I Am Willing to Come Home
C.S.S. Alabama: Rebel Raider or Pirate Ship
Black Soldiers and the Fight for Freedom
The Burning of Chambersburg
Early and Sheridan in the Shenandoah
The Old Sixth Took Them in Hands
Custer: The Boy General
Trench War
Sherman's March to the Sea
Slaughter at Franklin; Disaster at Nashville
1865	130	(12)
Sherman Moves North
Richmond Falls and Lee Surrenders
Lee's Farewell
Assassination of Lincoln
The War Ends: Reunion and Reconstruction	142	(6)
Searching for Your Civil War Relatives	148	(2)
Glossary	150	(4)
Bibliography	154	(2)
Index	156