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The first volume covers the roots of the war to the Battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862. All the significant battles are here, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, Second Bull Run to Antietam, and Perryville in the fall of 1862, but so are the smaller and often equally important engagements on both land and sea: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island No. Ten, New ...
The 304-page hardcover book without dust jacket, composed from the vast Civil War pictorial archive Time-Life had assembled over the decades, did feature the Time-Life Books logo on its cover and spine, and former Time-Life Managing Editor Neil Kagan (who was featured as such in the above referenced C-Span documentary) and Consultant Brian C ...
The Civil War has been commemorated in many capacities, ranging from the reenactment of battles to statues and memorial halls erected, films, stamps and coins with Civil War themes being issued, all of which helped to shape public memory. These commemorations occurred in greater numbers on the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the war. [309]
[2] Newman's latter-day successor, David J. Eicher, also subscribed to the same opinion as his predecessor(s), declaring in his influential 1996 "The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography" (ISBN 0252022734) reference book that Miller's publication continued to be "[t]he grandfather of pictorial histories, this mammoth work is a ...
Guelzo, Allen C. Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0199843282. Fellman, Michael et al. This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath (2nd. ed. 2007). Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is a 1988 book on the American Civil War, written by James M. McPherson. It is the sixth volume of the Oxford History of the United States series. An abridged, illustrated version was published in 2003. [1] The book won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History. [2]
The Civil War: A History. New York: Bonanza Books, 1961. OCLC 500488542. Hattaway, Herman, and Archer Jones. How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0-252-00918-1. Kagan, Neil, and Stephen G. Hyslop. Eyewitness to the Civil War: The Complete History From Secession to ...
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War is a book by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author James M. McPherson.The book was published by Oxford University Press in 1997 and covers the lives and ideals of American Civil War soldiers from both sides of the war.