History Buff's Guide to the Civil War
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SKU: BKP-0887
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
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Paperback, 335 pages
About the Title: Exploring the Civil War can be fascinating, but with so many battles, leaders, issues and more than 50,000 books on the subject, the task can also be overwhelming. Was Gettysburg the most important battle? Were Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis so different from each other? How accurate is reenacting? Who were the worst commanding Generals? The best?
Thomas Flagel uses annotated lists organized under more than thirty headings to clarify the best, the worst, the largest and the most lethal aspects of the conflict. Major sections are fashioned around the following topics:
- Antebellum: The critical years before the war, in particular the growing sectional crisis fueled by extremists and the issue of slavery
- Politics: The presidents and constitutions of the Union and the Confederacy, the most prominent politicians and the most volatile issues of the day
- Military Life: The world of common soldiers, how they fought, what they ate, how they were organized, what they saw, how they lived and how they died
- The Home Front: The fastest growing field in Civil War research, including immigration, societal changes, hardship and shortages, dissent and violence far from the fighting lines
- In Retrospect: Heroes and heroines, greatest victories and failures, firsts and worsts
- Pursuing the War: Civil War study today, including films, battlefield sites, genealogy, reenactments, restoration, preservation and other ventures
Copyright: 2003
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