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This volume makes available a fascinating narrative and a document
of singular importance to the study of the Civil War. It provides a
clear and realistic account of the author's reaction to combat and
prison life on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie.
This collection of thirteen essays examines the leaders of the southern states during the Civil War. Malcolm C. McMillan writes of the futile efforts of Alabama's wealthy governors to keep the trust of the poor non-slaveholding whites. Paul D. Escott shows Georgia Governor Joseph Emerson Brown's ability to please both the planter elite and the yeoman farmers. John B. Edmunds, Jr. examines the tremendous problems faced by the governors of South Carolina, the state that would suffer the highest losses. Each of the contributors describes the governor's reaction to undertaking duties never before required of men in their positions--urging men to battle, searching for means to feed and clothe the poor, boosting morale, and defending their state's territories, even against great odds.
In retrospect, General William Tecumseh Sherman considered his march through the Carolinas the greatest of his military feats, greater even than the Georgia campaign. When he set out northward from Savannah with 60,000 veteran soldiers in January 1865, he was more convinced than ever that the bold application of his ideas of total war could speedily end the conflict. John Barrett's story of what happened in the three months that followed is based on printed memoirs and documentary records of those who fought and of the civilians who lived in the path of Sherman's onslaught. The burning of Columbia, the battle of Bentonville, and Joseph E. Johnston's surrender nine days after Appomattox are at the center of the story, but Barrett also focuses on other aspects of the campaign, such as the undisciplined pillaging of the 'bummers,' and on its effects on local populations. |Newly revised and redesigned, this book assesses nearly 500 years of development in Havana, one of the oldest and most picturesque cities in the Western Hemisphere. The authors discuss the city's physical evolution in the context of political, economic, and cultural developments. They also examine recent restoration efforts in Old Havana, commercial development projects throughout the city, and the impact of tourism.
Eleven battles and seventy-three skirmishes were fought in North
Carolina during the Civil War. Although the number of men involved
in many of these engagements was comparatively small, the campaigns
and battles themselves were crucial in the grand strategy of the
conflict and involved some of the most famous generals of the war.
John Barrett presents the complete story of military engagements
across the state, including the classical pitched battle of
Bentonville, the siege of Fort Fisher, the amphibious campaigns on
the coast, and cavalry sweeps such as Stoneman's raid. From and
through North Carolina, men and supplies went to Lee's army in
Virginia, making the Tar Heel state critical to Lee's ability to
remain in the field during the closing months of the war, when the
Union had cut off the West and Gulf South. This dependence upon
North Carolina led to Stoneman's cavalry raid and Sherman's march
through the state in 1865, the latter of which brought the horrors
of total war and eventual defeat.
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