Turning Points of the Civil War

Turning Points of the Civil War
ISBN-10
0803289359
ISBN-13
9780803289352
Category
History
Pages
260
Language
English
Published
1989-01-01
Publisher
U of Nebraska Press
Author
James A. Rawley

Description

James A. Rawley examines the seven turning points of the Civil War: the course of the slaveholding borderland in 1861, First Bull Run, the Trent affair, Antietam, the Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg and Vicksburg, and the presidential election of 1864. Among the topic unifying his book are slavery, democracy, British policy, military organization and progress, and the roles of Lincoln, McClellan, Davis, and Lee. The afterword looks at the Civil War itself as a turning point in American history. In a preface to this Bison Book editin, James A. Rawley, considers recent books that sustain the idea of turning points during the Civil War.

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