The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil WarSimon and Schuster, 2002 M03 30 - 992 páginas Like no other conflict in our history, the Civil War casts a long shadow onto modern America," writes David Eicher. In his compelling new account of that war, Eicher gives us an authoritative modern single-volume battle history that spans the war from the opening engagement at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox (and even beyond, to the less well-known but conclusive surrender of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith in Galveston, Texas, on June 2, 1865). Although there are other one-volume histories of the Civil War -- most notably James M. McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, which puts the war in its political, economic, and social context -- The Longest Night is strictly a military history. It covers hundreds of engagements on land and sea, and along rivers. The Western theater, often neglected in accounts of the Civil War, and the naval actions along the coasts and major rivers are at last given their due. Such major battles as Gettysburg, Antietam, and Chancellorsville are, of course, described in detail, but Eicher also examines lesser-known actions such as Sabine Pass, Texas, and Fort Clinch, Florida. The result is a gripping popular history that will fascinate anyone just learning about the Civil War while at the same time offering more than a few surprises for longtime students of the War Between the States. The Longest Night draws on hundreds of sources and includes numerous excerpts from letters, diaries, and reports by the soldiers who fought the war, giving readers a real sense of life -- and death -- on the battlefield. In addition to the main battle narrative, Eicher analyzes each side's evolving strategy and examines the tactics of Lee, Grant, Johnston, Sherman, and other leading figures of the war. He also discusses such militarily significant topics as prisons, railroads, shipbuilding, clandestine operations, and the expanding role of African Americans in the war. The Longest Night is a riveting, indispensable history of the war that James McPherson in the Foreword to this book calls "the most dramatic, violent, and fateful experience in American history." |
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Página 53
... Jackson, to Jefferson Davis. The governors of Kentucky and Tennessee had similarly hostile sentiments for the Lincoln government. North Carolina troops seized Forts Caswell and Johnston. All-out war was now a reality, and men everywhere ...
... Jackson, to Jefferson Davis. The governors of Kentucky and Tennessee had similarly hostile sentiments for the Lincoln government. North Carolina troops seized Forts Caswell and Johnston. All-out war was now a reality, and men everywhere ...
Página 72
... Jackson, who also had well-known pro-Southern feelings. Some , soldiers and officers under Col. Nathaniel Lyon planned to attack Camp Jackson, fearing that disguised boxes of mortars and guns discovered coming into the city ...
... Jackson, who also had well-known pro-Southern feelings. Some , soldiers and officers under Col. Nathaniel Lyon planned to attack Camp Jackson, fearing that disguised boxes of mortars and guns discovered coming into the city ...
Página 74
... Jackson, opened on Ellsworth with a shotgun, killing him instantly, and Jackson was in turn shot by Pvt. Francis E. Brownell. Afterward, Ellsworth's body lay in state in the Executive Mansion and for weeks afterward, when Yankee troops ...
... Jackson, opened on Ellsworth with a shotgun, killing him instantly, and Jackson was in turn shot by Pvt. Francis E. Brownell. Afterward, Ellsworth's body lay in state in the Executive Mansion and for weeks afterward, when Yankee troops ...
Página 83
... Jackson over part of the state and attacked him at Boonville. Jackson then withdrew south from the Missouri River to southwestern Missouri, followed by the other units of the Missouri State Guard (CSA). Union soldiers under Thomas W ...
... Jackson over part of the state and attacked him at Boonville. Jackson then withdrew south from the Missouri River to southwestern Missouri, followed by the other units of the Missouri State Guard (CSA). Union soldiers under Thomas W ...
Página 91
... Jackson walked in and announced the impending ar- rival of Johnston's army, as soon as minor delays along the single-track railroad were ironed out. Jackson himself had brought , troops. By daybreak on July both sides ...
... Jackson walked in and announced the impending ar- rival of Johnston's army, as soon as minor delays along the single-track railroad were ironed out. Jackson himself had brought , troops. By daybreak on July both sides ...
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An Unlikely Hero at Belmont | 130 |
Three Days at Gettysburg | 501 |
Visiting the River of Death | 570 |
The Battles for Chattanooga | 600 |
Sherman Eyes the Deep South | 624 |
The Red River Campaign | 641 |
Grant Moves into the Wilderness | 659 |
Action at Atlanta and Petersburg | 705 |
Sheridan Raids the Valley | 735 |
Grant Moves into Tennessee | 154 |
Clash of the Ironclads | 183 |
A Bloodbath at Shiloh | 219 |
Jacksons Valley Campaign | 243 |
The Peninsular Campaign | 268 |
Confederate Triumph at Second Bull Run | 298 |
The Wars Bloodiest Day | 335 |
Fredericksburgs Appalling Loss | 381 |
Stalemate at Stones River | 408 |
The Campaign for Vicksburg | 436 |
Lees Master Stroke | 457 |
Shermans March to the Sea | 760 |
Fall of the Last Confederate Port | 785 |
Lees Army Crumbles | 802 |
The End of the Civil War | 841 |
1865 | 852 |
Acknowledgments | 856 |
Notes | 858 |
Bibliography | 897 |
Index | 939 |
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The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War David J. Eicher Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |
The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War David J. Eicher Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |
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Página 51 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 81 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men...
Página 317 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Página 406 - ... we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility....
Página 559 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed.
Página 429 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Página 157 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat : Oh ! be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Página 365 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Página 763 - Bring the good old bugle, boys ! we'll sing another song — Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along, Sing it as we used to sing it fifty thousand strong, While we were marching through Georgia. Chorus — " ' Hurrah ! Hurrah ! we bring the Jubilee ! Hurrah ! Hurrah ! the flag that makes you free !' So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, While we were marching through Georgia.
Página 658 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere...