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War in the Western Theater - Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War (Hardcover)
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War in the Western Theater - Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War (Hardcover)
Series: Emerging Civil War Anniversary Series
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Loot Price R538
Discovery Miles 5 380
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Often relegated to a backseat by action in the Eastern Theater, the
Western Theater is actually where the Federal armies won the Civil
War. In the West, General Ulysses S. Grant strung together a series
of victories that ultimately led him to oversee Robert E. Lee's
surrender at Appomattox Court House and, eventually, two terms in
the White House. In the West, the fall of Atlanta secured Lincoln's
reelection for his own second term. In the West, Federal armies
split the Confederacy in two - and then split it in two again. In
the West, Federal armies inexorably advanced, gobbling up huge
swaths of territory in the face of ineffective Confederate
opposition. By war's end, General William T. Sherman had marched
the "Western Theater" all the way into central North Carolina. In
the Eastern Theater, the principal armies fought largely within a
100-mile corridor between the capitals of Washington, D.C., and
Richmond, Virginia, with a few ill-fated Confederate invasions
north of the Mason-Dixon Line. The Western Theater, in contrast,
included the entire area between the Appalachian Mountains and the
Mississippi River, from Kentucky in the north to the Gulf of Mexico
in the south - a vast geographic expanse that, even today, can be
challenging to understand. The Western Theater of War: Favorite
Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging
Civil War revisits some of the Civil War's most legendary
battlefields: Shiloh, Chickamauga, Franklin, the March to the Sea,
and more.
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