Battle cry of freedom the Civil War era
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, this fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed w...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2003, c1988.
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Table of Contents:
- Editor's introduction
- Prologue: From the Halls of Montezuma
- United States at midcentury
- Mexico will poison us
- Empire for slavery
- Slavery, rum, and Romanism
- Crime against Kansas
- Mudsills and greasy mechanics for A Lincoln
- Revolution of 1860
- Counterrevolution of 1861
- Facing both ways: the upper south's dilemma
- Amateurs go to war
- Farewell to the Ninety Days' War
- Blockade and beachhead: the Salt-water War, 1861-1862
- River War in 1862
- Sinews of war
- Billy Yank's chickahominy blues
- We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued
- Carry me back to old Virginny
- John Bull's Virginia reel
- Three rivers in winter, 1862-1863
- Fire in the rear
- Long remember: the summer of '63
- Johnny Reb's Chattanooga blues
- When this cruel war is over
- If it takes all summer
- After four years of failure
- We are going to be wiped off the earth
- South Carolina must be destroyed
- We are all Americans
- Epilogue: To the shoals of victory
- Afterword
- Abbreviated titles
- Bibliographic note
- Index
- Illustrations appear following pages 332 and 684.
