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Booklist, in a review of The Long Road to Gettysburg, called it an "intriguing book" and concluded "An important addition to the Civil War shelf." [1] Reviewing an audio version of the book, the School Library Journal wrote "Overall, this is a worthwhile addition to non-fiction audiobook collections."
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.
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War is a 1962 book of historical and literary criticism written by Edmund Wilson.It consists of 16 chapters about the works and lives of almost 30 writers, including Ambrose Bierce, George Washington Cable, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Kate Chopin, John William De Forest (who, as American historian Henry Steele Commager put it, [1 ...
A college professor and his students counted words in secession documents to determine what really caused the Civil War.
Pages in category "Children's books set during the American Civil War" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Robertson also edited an additional 18 books on the Civil War. [ 9 ] In 1961, President John F. Kennedy nominated Robertson to serve as the executive director of the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission , a federal committee that was foundering under the pressures of regional differences and the emerging civil rights movement, unable to ...
The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl is a diary written by Eliza Frances Andrews during the American Civil War. It focuses on the daily life of a young girl living in the Confederate States of America during the conflict. It was published in 1908 in New York by D. Appleton and Company and is freely available in the public domain. [1]
For the history of theology in America, the great tragedy of the Civil War is that the most persuasive theologians were the Rev. Drs. William Tecumseh Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant. [80] There were many causes of the Civil War, but the religious conflict, almost unimaginable in modern America, cut very deep at the time.