Download or read book A More Civil War written by D. H. Dilbeck and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, Americans confronted profound moral problems about how to fight in the conflict. In this innovative book, D. H. Dilbeck reveals how the Union sought to wage a just war against the Confederacy. He shows that northerners fought according to a distinct "moral vision of war," an array of ideas about the nature of a truly just and humane military effort. Dilbeck tells how Union commanders crafted rules of conduct to ensure their soldiers defeated the Confederacy as swiftly as possible while also limiting the total destruction unleashed by the fighting. Dilbeck explores how Union soldiers abided by official just-war policies as they battled guerrillas, occupied cities, retaliated against enemy soldiers, and came into contact with Confederate civilians. In contrast to recent scholarship focused solely on the Civil War's carnage, Dilbeck details how the Union sought both to deal sternly with Confederates and to adhere to certain constraints. The Union's earnest effort to wage a just war ultimately helped give the Civil War its distinct character, a blend of immense destruction and remarkable restraint.
Download or read book The American Civil War written by James Kendall Hosmer and published by New York and London, Harper & brothers. This book was released on 1913 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Civil War in America written by Henry Coppée and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book American Civil War D H written by Spencer Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 2777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Nation Outcome of the Civil War 1863 1865 written by Albert Bushnell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War written by George Francis Robert Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War written by George Francis Robert Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taming The Tar Heel Department D H Hill And The Challenges Of Operational Level Command During The American Civil War written by Major Brit K. Erslev and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this monograph is to identify skills and capabilities required by commanders to excel at the operational level of war and in the practice of operational art. The author evaluated the performance of Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill in his role as a department commander during the American Civil War. Department commanders were responsible for sequencing tactical operations to support the accomplishment of their government’s strategic objectives but received little guidance on how to fulfill their missions. The monograph concludes that twenty first century American military officers in similar command positions must be able to make decisions given ambiguous guidance and a fluid operational environment, be creative and active in developing innovative techniques to better understand the operational environment, and be able to craft holistic campaign plans that go beyond offensive and defensive operations. An examination of Hill’s tenure as commander of the Confederate Department of North Carolina from February to July 1863 found that he was uncomfortable translating discretionary orders into action, he was unable to adequately visualize his operational environment, and he did not construct a coherent campaign plan to accomplish disparate missions and support Confederate strategic aims. Some of Hill’s struggles were due to the inability of the Confederate high command to articulate strategic priorities, the actions of the Union forces, and lack of experience in higher level commands. Previous tactical-level experiences in the war made Hill more cautious about committing force when presented with ambiguous situations and in his capacity as department commander he did not grasp his responsibility to provide recommendations to strategic-level decision makers regarding force disposition and types of combat operations.
Download or read book Race and Reunion written by David W. BLIGHT and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion.
Download or read book History of the American Civil War written by John William Draper and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War written by George Francis Robert Henderson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1961-01-01 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first quarter of the century, on the hills which stand above the Ohio River, but in different States of the Union, were born two children, destined, to all appearance, to lives of narrow interests and thankless toil. They were the sons of poor parents, without influence or expectations; their native villages, deep in the solitudes of the West, and remote from the promise and possibilities of great cities, offered no road to fortune. In the days before the railway, escape from the wilderness, except for those with long purses, was very difficult; and for those who remained, if their means were small, the farm and the store were the only occupations. But a farmer without capital was little better than a hired hand; trade was confined to the petty dealings of a country market; and although thrift and energy, even under such depressing conditions, might eventually win a competence, the most ardent ambition could hardly hope for more. Never was an obscure existence more irretrievably marked out than for these children of the Ohio; and yet, before either had grown grey, the names of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and of Stonewall Jackson, Lieutenant-General in the Confederate Army, were household words in both America and Europe. Descendants of the pioneers, those hardy borderers, half soldiers and half farmers, who held and reclaimed, through long years of Indian warfare, the valleys and prairies of the West, they inherited the best attributes of a frank and valiant race. Simple yet wise, strong yet gentle, they were gifted with all the qualities which make leaders of men. Actuated by the highest principles, they both ennobled the cause for which they fought; and while the opposition of such kindred natures adds to the dramatic interest of the Civil War, the career of the great soldier, although a theme perhaps less generally attractive, may be followed as profitably as that of the great statesmen. Providence dealt with them very differently. The one was struck down by a mortal wound before his task was well begun; his life, to all human seeming, was given in vain, and his name will ever be associated with the mournful memories of a lost cause and a vanished army. The other, ere he fell beneath the assassin’s stroke, had seen the abundant fruits of his mighty labours; his sun set in a cloudless sky. And yet the resemblance between them is very close. Both dared Jackson, in one respect, was more fortunate than Lincoln. Although born to poverty, he came of a Virginia family which was neither unknown nor undistinguished, and as showing the influences which went to form his character, its history and traditions may be briefly related.
Download or read book Outcome of the Civil War 1863 1865 written by James Kendall Hosmer and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the American Civil War written by Draper and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Longest Night written by David J Eicher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like no other conflict in our history, the Civil War casts a long shadow onto modern America," writes David Eicher. In his compelling new account of that war, Eicher gives us an authoritative modern single-volume battle history that spans the war from the opening engagement at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox (and even beyond, to the less well-known but conclusive surrender of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith in Galveston, Texas, on June 2, 1865). Although there are other one-volume histories of the Civil War -- most notably James M. McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, which puts the war in its political, economic, and social context -- The Longest Night is strictly a military history. It covers hundreds of engagements on land and sea, and along rivers. The Western theater, often neglected in accounts of the Civil War, and the naval actions along the coasts and major rivers are at last given their due. Such major battles as Gettysburg, Antietam, and Chancellorsville are, of course, described in detail, but Eicher also examines lesser-known actions such as Sabine Pass, Texas, and Fort Clinch, Florida. The result is a gripping popular history that will fascinate anyone just learning about the Civil War while at the same time offering more than a few surprises for longtime students of the War Between the States. The Longest Night draws on hundreds of sources and includes numerous excerpts from letters, diaries, and reports by the soldiers who fought the war, giving readers a real sense of life -- and death -- on the battlefield. In addition to the main battle narrative, Eicher analyzes each side's evolving strategy and examines the tactics of Lee, Grant, Johnston, Sherman, and other leading figures of the war. He also discusses such militarily significant topics as prisons, railroads, shipbuilding, clandestine operations, and the expanding role of African Americans in the war. The Longest Night is a riveting, indispensable history of the war that James McPherson in the Foreword to this book calls "the most dramatic, violent, and fateful experience in American history."
Download or read book D H Hill the Confederate Angel of Death written by D. R. Hill and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS A 2ND EDITION OF THE BOOK "LEE'S FIGHTING GENERAL"(WRITTEN FOR STUDY AT SECONDARY EDUCATION LEVEL)- a riveting narrative and serious historical study of the nineteenth century's most legendary {and obscurely studied} fighting General - D. H. Hill! This nonfiction biography provides an epic recount of his role in the two most litigious events of the American Civil War; Lee's Lost Dispatch and the Controversy at Chickamauga! This 2nd edition of Lee's Fighting General draws from obscurity the personality of the Confederate Angel of Death - Lieutenant General Daniel Harvey Hill {CSA}; providing a gripping and original study of Lee's legendary "fighter from way back" while invoking vivid memories of our nation's bloody and fratricidal civil war.This 2ND edition "D. H. Hill - The Civil War's Angel of Death" has been edited to facilitate serious historical study of the Civil War era by high school and undergraduate students while the 1st edition "Lee's Fighting General" is geared for post-graduate level research and study.The sounds of clashing bayonets, thunderous cannonades and withering volleys of musketry echo thunderously through this brilliant motif, recounting with great specificity and historical accuracy the events of a bygone era - when legendary men as Robert E. Lee, ole "Pete" Longstreet and D. H. Hill, facing insurmountable odds, gallantly responded to the echo of a distant bugle and "charged" into history's desperate and bloody civil war battles."A must read for students of civil war & military history"This captivating motif immerses the reader in a suspense-filled drama that rivals even the greatest Civil War literary novels of fiction, yet its compelling narrative is told with such historical precision and specificity that it stands noteworthy of higher level institutional study of war. Beautifully illustrated and comprehensively researched from the official archives of both armies, the events of a bygone era are validated with historical precision and accuracy as the Fighting General's namesake recounts his iconic life from cradle to grave. So fix bayonet, load your musket, move at the double quick and charge into history with Lieutenant General Daniel Harvey Hill - aka - "Lee's Fighting General"
Download or read book The Story of the Civil War The campaigns of 1862 written by John Codman Ropes and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of the Civil War written by John Brown Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For many years I have been urged to place on record my reminiscences of the war between the States. In undertaking the task now, it is not my purpose to attempt a comprehensive description of that great struggle, nor an elaborate analysis of the momentous interests and issues involved. The time may not have arrived for a full and fair history of that most interesting period in the Republic's life. The man capable of writing it with entire justice to both sides is perhaps yet unborn. He may appear, however, at a future day, fully equipped for the great work. If endowed with the requisite breadth and clearness of view, with inflexible mental integrity and absolute freedom from all bias, he will produce the most instructive and thrilling record in the world's deathless annals, and cannot fail to make a contribution of measureless value to the American people and to the cause of free government throughout the world ... I have also recorded in this volume a large number of those characteristic and thrilling incidents which illustrate a unique and hitherto unwritten phase of the war, the story of which should not be lost, because it is luminous with the noblest lessons. Many of these incidents came under my own observation"--Introduction.
