Author: Alexander Howard Meneely
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press ; London : P.S. King & son, Limited
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Investigates the War Department during the Civil War to show that as the conflict progressed, the War Office expanded into a huge machine. Studies the operations of several bureaus and the activities of Secretary Stanton.
Author: United States. War Dept
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Author: United States. Naval War Records Office
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
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Author: California Adjutant General's Office
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015775602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: National Archives (U.S.)
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Author: James M. McPherson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807837326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy, dwarfed by its giant adversary, demonstrated daring and military innovation. Commerce raiders sank Union ships and drove the American merchant marine from the high seas. Southern ironclads sent several Union warships to the bottom, naval mines sank many more, and the Confederates deployed the world's first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. But in the end, it was the Union navy that won some of the war's most important strategic victories--as an essential partner to the army on the ground at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Mobile Bay, and Fort Fisher, and all by itself at Port Royal, Fort Henry, New Orleans, and Memphis.
Author: Adam Goodheart
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400032199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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A gripping and original account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom. An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 introduces us to a heretofore little-known cast of Civil War heroes—among them an acrobatic militia colonel, an explorer’s wife, an idealistic band of German immigrants, a regiment of New York City firemen, a community of Virginia slaves, and a young college professor who would one day become president. Their stories take us from the corridors of the White House to the slums of Manhattan, from the waters of the Chesapeake to the deserts of Nevada, from Boston Common to Alcatraz Island, vividly evoking the Union at its moment of ultimate crisis and decision. Hailed as “exhilarating….Inspiring…Irresistible…” by The New York Times Book Review, Adam Goodheart’s bestseller 1861 is an important addition to the Civil War canon. Includes black-and-white photos and illustrations.
Author: George Washington Williams
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
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Author: Kenneth White Munden
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Author: United States. Commission on Training Camp Activities
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Category : Military training camps
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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