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Vor einem Tag · After driving Hunter into West Virginia, Early implemented the second phase of his strategy by taking the fight to the North. The Confederates moved from Lynchburg to Staunton and saw the destruction that Hunter’s men had wrought upon the people there. Partly to avenge these depredations, Early planned to raid Washington with just 10,000 men.
Vor 3 Tagen · - Bruce Catton, in American Heritage, August 1958. So what's the big deal about the Battle of Antietam, anyway? What makes it so fascinating? How did it affect the participants? The course of the War? The future of the Nation?
Vor 4 Tagen · Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox, 156. [9] Sears, 626. [10] Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-Siang, A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), 399.
7. Juni 2024 · This little girl with an idealistic vision for her future little knew what awaited her as the wife of America's greatest soldier, Ulysses S. Grant. All of that was yet to come when Ulysses and Julia "shared one of the great, romantic beautiful loves of all American history." Bruce Catton.
- Marie Kelsey
- 2013
Vor 4 Tagen · Bruce Catton (1899-1978) by Carol Reardon From Michigan, the Civil War historian and longtime editor of American Heritage magazine mastered “popular” history. His Civil War narratives attracted both general readers and professionals.
Vor 19 Stunden · With this book, Rick Atkinson cements his place among America's great popular historians, in the tradition of Bruce Catton and Stephen Ambrose., "InThe Day of Battle, Rick Atkinson picks up where he left off inAn Army at Dawn, his history of the North African campaign, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003.
I will say most books about the start of the war like The Impending Crisis by Potter, The Coming Fury by Catton, or even the new The Demons of Unrest by Larson will give you a decent idea and a contrast to the other side. But here are some explicitly about the CSA. Warning - many of these are university press titles and will get deep in the ...
