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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Part 1. Prelude to War -- From West Point to the Battlefield / General George A. Custer -- The Seventh Regiment at the Capital / General Egbert L. Viele -- Part 2. The War In 1861 -- Alexandria, a Graphic Account of Its Capture / General Orlando B. Willcox -- The Battle of Rich Mountain / General William S. Rosecrans -- At the Battle of Bull Run with the Second New Hampshire Regiment / General Francis S. Fiske -- What I Saw at Wilson's Creek / Private Joseph A. Mudd -- Part 3. Leaders, Civilian and Military -- Lincoln and Grant / Colonel Horace Porter -- Robert E. Lee / President Jefferson Davis -- Part 4. The War in 1862 -- Stonewall Jackson's Discontent / Colonel Alexander R. Boteler -- My Campaign in East Kentucky / President James A. Garfield -- A Boy at Shiloh / John A. Cockerill -- A Soldier's Letter from Shiloh / Brevet Major Robert P. Barry -- Sketching under Fire at Antietam / Correspondent Frank H. Schell -- The Battle of Perryville / General William P. Carlin -- In the Ranks at Stones River / Corporal Ebenezer Hannaford -- Part 5. The War In 1863 -- Grierson's Cavalry Raid / Captain Stephen A. Forbes -- Recollections of Marye's Heights and Salem Church / General Benjamin G. Humphreys -- Criminal Blundering at Chancellorsville / General John C. Lee -- With Hood at Gettysburg / Colonel Robert M. Powell -- Further Recollections of Gettysburg Generals / Daniel E. Sickles, John Newton, and Daniel Butterfield -- Another View of Gettysburg / General John Gibbon -- General "Jeb" Stuart at Gettysburg / Colonel John S. Mosby -- Port Hudson: The Forlorn Hope and the Siege / Colonel Prentiss Ingraham -- Plain Living at Johnson's Island / Lieutenant Horace Carpenter -- A Romance of Morgan's Rough Riders / Generals Basil W. Duke and Orlando B. Willcox, and Captain Thomas H. Hines -- The Assault on Fort Wagner / Drummer Robert D. Kelley -- The Mistakes of Grant in Relation to the Chickamauga Campaign / General William S. Rosecrans -- Grant at Chattanooga / General Oliver O. Howard -- Part 6. The War In 1864 -- Dahlgren's Raid / Lieutenant H.A.D. Merritt -- The Siege of Petersburg / General August V. Kautz -- The Battle of Petersburg / General Pierre G.T. Beauregard -- The Crater / Lieutenant Freeman S. Bowley -- With Sherman at Atlanta Colonel / Albert G. Brackett -- The Price Campaign of Captain George S. Grover Sheridan at Winchester / Major Benjamin W. Crowninshield -- General Schofield at Franklin / Captain John K. Shellenberger -- Part 6. Fireside and Field of Battle -- The Railroad Brigade / General Herman Haupt -- Telegraphing in Battle / J. Emmet O'Brien -- A View of the Confederacy from the Inside / Judge John A. Campbell -- Part8. The War In 1865 -- The Failure of the Hampton Conference / General Fitzhugh Lee -- The Fall of Fort Fisher / Thomas H. Sutton -- The Burning of Columbia / Colonel James G. Gibbes -- The Last Days of the Rebellion / General Philip H. Sheridan -- The Last Days of Lee's Army / Colonel Charles Marshall -- An Effort to Rescue Jefferson Davis / General Joseph Wheeler -- The Last Chapter in the History of the War / Lieutenant J.M. Bundy -- Part 9. Epilogue -- Why the Confederacy Failed / Duncan Rose, with Replies from Generals Stephen D. Lee, Joseph Wheeler, Edward Porter Alexander, Evander M. Law, Don Carlos Buell, Oliver O. Howard, and Jacob D. Cox |
| Summary |
The first four volumes of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, published in the late nineteenth century, became the best-selling and most frequently cited works ever published on the Civil War. Volume 6 (like Volume 5), assembled by the acclaimed military historian Peter Cozzens, carries on the tradition of its namesake, offering a dazzling new collection of articles written by military and civilian leaders, North and South, on a broad array of war-related topics. Sifting carefully through reports from newspapers, magazines, personal memoirs, and letters, Peter Cozzens's Volume 6 brings readers more of the best first-person accounts of marches, encampments, skirmishes, and full-blown battles, as seen by participants on both sides of the conflict. Alongside the experiences of lower-ranking officers and enlisted men are accounts from key personalities including General John Gibbon, General John C. Lee, and seven prominent generals from both sides offering views on "why the Confederacy failed." This volume includes one hundred twenty illustrations, including sixteen previously uncollected maps of battlefields, troop movements, and fortifications. - Back cover |
| Notes |
Supplement to the four volume work: Battles and leaders of the Civil War / edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel. 1887-1888 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Generals -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Generals -- United States -- Biography
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HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Generals.
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Military campaigns.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140216
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140261
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United States.
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Biographies.
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History
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Personal narratives
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Biographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Cozzens, Peter, 1957-
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| LC no. |
2019719571 |
| ISBN |
9780252090899 |
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0252090896 |
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9786613155603 |
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6613155608 |
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