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Mobile, 1865 - Last Stand of the Confederacy (Hardcover)
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Mobile, 1865 - Last Stand of the Confederacy (Hardcover)
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The last major battle of the Civil War at Fort Blakely, Alabama, on
April 9, 1865, was quickly overshadowed by the concurrent surrender
of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox, and is largely forgotten
today. And yet the Federal campaign against Mobile, the last
important Southern city that remained in Rebel hands, was a
significant military operation involving 45,000 Union soldiers and
9,000 Confederates. Faced with overwhelming odds, diehard Rebels
refused to surrender, and--even with the end of the war clearly at
hand--Federal soldiers remained willing to fight and die to capture
the last enemy stronghold. O'Brien explores the battle and the
driving forces behind it in the first comprehensive treatment of
the campaign in over 130 years. The Mobile campaign sheds light on
the workings of unit cohesion in the closing days of the war--a
bond of loyalty forged by four years of hardships, with soldiers no
longer fighting just for country or cause but for their own band of
comrades. Black solders (ten percent of the Federal army in the
Mobile campaign) were further motivated by another factor: to end
slavery and to prove African Americans worthy of equality. Soldiers
in this campaign faced the full fury of America's war-making
science, with innovations like trench warfare, rifled artillery,
land and naval mines, army-navy amphibious operations, submarines,
and minesweeping operations--all new technologies to be perfected
by a later generation in World War I.
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Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2001 |
First published: |
September 2001 |
Authors: |
Sean O'Brien
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-275-97334-6 |
Categories: |
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General
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LSN: |
0-275-97334-4 |
Barcode: |
9780275973346 |
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