This Great Struggle

America's Civil War

Steven E. Woodworth (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2011
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7425-5184-8 (ISBN)

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Referring to the war that was raging across parts of the American landscape, Abraham Lincoln told Congress in 1862, "We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope on earth." Lincoln recognized what was at stake in the American Civil War: not only freedom for 3.5 million slaves but also survival of self-government in the last place on earth where it could have the opportunity of developing freely. Noted historian Steven E. Woodworth tells the story of what many regard as the defining event in United States history. While emphasizing the importance of action in the region between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River in determining the outcome of the war, Woodworth argues that the Civil War had a distinct purpose that was understood by most of its participants: it was primarily a conflict over the issue of slavery. The soldiers who filled the ranks of the armies on both sides knew what they were fighting for. The outcome of the war-from its beginnings at Fort Sumter to the Confederate surrender four years later-was the result of the decisions that those millions of Americans made. Written in clear and compelling fashion, This Great Struggle is their story-and ours.

Steven E. Woodworth is professor of history at Texas Christian University and author, co-author, or editor of twenty-seven books. He is a two-time winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award of the New York Civil War Round Table, a two-time finalist for the Peter Seaborg Award of the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War, and a winner of the Grady McWhiney Award of the Dallas Civil War Round Table for lifetime contribution to the study of Civil War history. His most recent book is Manifest Destinies: America's Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War.

Prologue Chapter 1: America's Long Road to Civil War Chapter 2: And the War Came Chapter 3: All Quiet Along the Potomac Chapter 4: The Emergence of Grant Chapter 5: McClellan's Great Campaign Chapter 6: Confederate High Tide Chapter 7: Lincoln Takes New Measures Chapter 8: "Peace DOes Not Appear So Distant As It Did" Chapter 9: "The Unfinished Work" Chapter 10: From the Rapidan to the James to the Potomac Chapter 11: The Atlanta Campaign Chapter 12: Last Chances for the Confederacy Chapter 13: "Let Us Strive on to Finish the Work" Chapter 14: Reconstruction Epilogue

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.4.2011
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, maps, ports.
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 238 mm
Gewicht	681 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7425-5184-9 / 0742551849
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-5184-8 / 9780742551848
Zustand	Neuware