Hearts in Conflict: A One-volume History of the Civil WarCarol Publishing Group, 1994 - 642 páginas "What is man to do when the laws he has lived under and respected put his heart in conflict with itself?" It is this fundamental question that illuminates Hearts in Conflict, a brilliant new history of the American Civil War. Here, in one single volume well supplied with easy-to-read maps, author and military historian Curt Anders provides a clear understanding of exactly what happened between North and South during the years 1861 to 1865. In Hearts in Conflict the author uses the words of participants to bring the war vividly to life - from the portents of conflict in the summer of 1860 to the cooling of the guns in 1865. At the outset, Anders argues, Americans were in a fighting mood, and passion crowded out reason. The breakdown of institutional procedures for resolving disputes led to military action, and battle became the means of reaching an ultimate and unarguable decision. Acting as an unobtrusive guide, the author carries the reader through the tumultuous years, not only describing campaigns and battles but also providing insights into the motivations and intents of the actors. By shifting the narrative from one side to the other, Anders provides a fresh, clear view of the war's progress. And he uses documents to permit the major figures - Lincoln, Seward, McClellan, Jackson, Lee, Grant, Sherman, and countless others, great and small - to reveal themselves in their own words. And always to the reader's benefit, Anders shares his military understanding of the leaders and the bloody battles they waged. Hearts in Conflict is, ultimately, as much a search for values as it is the story of a war. The author focuses on the men whose ideas and actions drove the events, most of themordinary people facing extraordinary challenges. Some became heroes - they earned respect - while others, lacking the characteristics required to deal with situations utterly unforeseen, faltered. In the end we comprehend why men fought - and succeeded or failed. Hearts in Conflict, a rich yet manageable history of the nation's most divisive conflict, fills an important gap in the Civil War bookshelf. Accurate and lively, it makes sense of the war's complexity for Civil War buffs and students of American history and warfare alike. |
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... VICKSBURG Jackson MEMPHIS TENNESSEE Holly Springs Corinth VAN DORN GRANT Grant's Vicksburg Plan Davis could not possibly have known of it , but around December 8 , Ulysses Grant ordered Cump Sherman to take a riverborne force from ...
... VICKSBURG Jackson MEMPHIS TENNESSEE Holly Springs Corinth VAN DORN GRANT Grant's Vicksburg Plan Davis could not possibly have known of it , but around December 8 , Ulysses Grant ordered Cump Sherman to take a riverborne force from ...
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... Vicksburg . But they had left nearly a week before , while the general's mind was on his wedding . Had Cump Sherman , as the outraged McClernand was quick to allege , stolen the forces ? Was this some conspiracy by the West Point clique ...
... Vicksburg . But they had left nearly a week before , while the general's mind was on his wedding . Had Cump Sherman , as the outraged McClernand was quick to allege , stolen the forces ? Was this some conspiracy by the West Point clique ...
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... Vicksburg or coping with the Mississippi Valley's pro- Confederate geography . He had to demonstrate to everyone that , drunk or sober , he knew what he was doing . By early April it took the fingers of both hands to count the number of ...
... Vicksburg or coping with the Mississippi Valley's pro- Confederate geography . He had to demonstrate to everyone that , drunk or sober , he knew what he was doing . By early April it took the fingers of both hands to count the number of ...
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Coercion Versus States Rights | 3 |
The Guns of April | 22 |
The Clanking of the War Chariots | 38 |
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Injustice on Trial: Second Bull Run, General Fitz John Porter's Court ... Curt Anders Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |