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Author | : Bell Irvin Wiley |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1994-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807119112 |
Originally published forty years ago, Bell Irvin Wiley’s The Road to Appomattox marked one of the first efforts by a Civil War scholar to identify the internal causes of the South’s defeat. Today this elegant little book remains one of the most penetrating, thought-provoking works on the subject. In the book’s three chapters, Wiley treats three broad reasons for the failure of the Confederacy: weak political leadership, low morale among the populace, and four “internal influences” in the South. Those four shortcomings stemmed from traits apparently endemic to southerners in general, Wiley explains, and they included disharmony among and between political and military leaders; the government’s failure to provide adequate public information systems; rigidity in outlook and course of action; and poor judgment, especially of the North’s strength, the South’s own strength, and Europe’s dependence on cotton. Recent years have witnessed a number of significant studies dealing with Confederate defeat, particularly with the failings of Davis as war leader and with the complex issue of the South’s dedication to the cause. Wiley was one of the first historians to raise these issues and discuss them trenchantly. Those familiar with The Road to Appomattox will cheer the reissue of this resonant work; first-time readers will see why.
Author | : Robert Hendrickson |
Publisher | : Thorndike Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780783893723 |
A description of the military operations of the Civil War includes analyses of the leadership and strategies of both sides of the conflict.
Author | : Bell Irvin Wiley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : C. Carter Smith |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781562942649 |
Uses contemporary pictures and maps in presenting the story of the trappers, miners, ranchers, and farmers who turned a huge wilderness into the breadbasket of the world
Author | : Robert Hendrickson |
Publisher | : Castle Books, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780785820598 |
The story of how the North finally defeated the South in the Civil War, using vivid descriptions, the words of actual participants, and helpful photos and illustrations.
Author | : MacKinlay Kantor |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781402751240 |
From a Pulitzer Prize winner comes the story of an unforgettable moment in American history: the historic meeting between General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant that ended the Civil War. MacKinlay Kantor captures all the emotions and the details of those few days: the aristocratic Lee’s feeling of resignation; Grant’s crippling headaches; and Lee’s request--which Grant generously allowed--to permit his soldiers to keep their horses so they could plant crops for food.
Author | : Chris Calkins |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1997-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Previous accounts of the Civil War's last major campaign have often neglected the actual maneuvers and tactics of the units involved. This new addition to the Great Campaigns series features a tactical approach to the final drama of the Civil War. Innovative maps, sidebars and charts complement a dramatic narrative. The fall of Petersburg and Richmond, the last battles at Five Forks, Sailor's Creek, and Dinwiddie Court House, and the final surrender at Appomattox are all described by an author whose knowledge of the historical sources is equaled by his familiarity with the area over which the armies marched and fought.The author provides a day-to-day narrative of this fascinating campaign, with a series of specially commissioned maps that make clear the complex series of maneuvers that finally brought Lee's beleaguered army to bay. Special sidebars highlight many incidents and personalities of the campaign, including never-before-published information on African-Americans in Confederate service. Record-keeping, especially for the Confederates, was difficult in the last hectic days of the war, and readers will find here the most complete order of battle available for both sides.
Author | : William Marvel |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807857038 |
Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. As the popular imagination would have it, Robert E. Lee's tattered, starving, but devoted troops found themselves hopelessly surrounded thro
Author | : Bell Irvin Wiley |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2008-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807133750 |
In this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers' letters and diaries, Wiley explains who these men were and why they fought, how they reacted to combat and the strain of prolonged conflict, and what they thought about the land and the people of Dixie. This fascinating social history reveals that while the Yanks and the Rebs fought for very different causes, the men on both sides were very much the same. "This wonderfully interesting book is the finest memorial the Union soldier is ever likely to have.... [Wiley] has written about the Northern troops with an admirable objectivity, with sympathy and understanding and profound respect for their fighting abilities. He has also written about them with fabulous learning and considerable pace and humor.
Author | : Michael E. Haskew |
Publisher | : Zenith Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2015-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0760348170 |
They endured hardship and deprivation as they fought for their home and ideals - relive the final days of the Army of Northern Virginia. Appomattox: The Last Days of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia encompasses the defense and evacuation of the Confederate capital of Richmond, the horrific combat in the trenches of Petersburg, General Robert E. Lee's withdrawal toward the Carolinas in his forlorn hope of a rendezvous with General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee to carry on the fight, the relentless pursuit of Union forces, and the ultimate realization that further resistance against overwhelming odds was futile. The Army of Northern Virginia was the fighting soul of the Confederacy in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War. From its inception, it fought against overwhelming odds. Union forces might have occupied territory, but as long as the Confederate army was active in the field, the rebellion was alive. Through four years of bitter conflict, the Army of Northern Virginia and its longtime commander, General Robert E. Lee, became the stuff of legend. By April 1865, its days were numbered. There are many stories of heroism and sacrifice, both Union and Confederate, during the Civil War, and Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia wrote their own epic chapter. Author Michael E. Haskew, a researcher, writer, and editor of many military history subjects for over twenty years, puts the hardship and deprivation suffered by this Army's soldiers while defending their home and ideals into proper perspective.