Steven E Woodworth
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English
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Leadership and Command is a unique collection of five carefully-crafted essays by leading scholars, each dealing with an important and understudied slice of history from the epic events of 1861-1865. Georgia historian Richard McMurry inaugurates this compendium by directing the bright spotlight of scrutiny upon Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's early-war tenure of command in the Eastern Theater of operations. It was in Virginia, asserts McMurry,...
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English
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Sherman is not only one of the most important generals in the American Civil War, but also one of the most famous commanders in the military annals of the western world. He has become an almost mythical character in popular memory, the embodiment of grim-visaged, implacable war. Legend has him burning a sixty-mile-wide swath of desolation across the South, and southerners still confidently assert that their ancestors were burned out by Sherman and...
4) Sherman
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English
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Explores the leadership strategies of William Tecumseh Sherman, a Union General in the American Civil War known for his unique maneuvering techniques, and discusses the impact that his actions had on history.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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A sweeping history of the 1840s that captures America's enormous sense of possibility that inspired it's growth and shows how the extraordinary expansion of territories forced the nation to come to grips with the deep rift that would bring war just a decade later. The author gives us a portrait of America at its most vibrant and expansive. It was a decade in which the nation significantly enlarged its boundaries, taking Texas, New Mexico, California,...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Divided chronologically into five sections, the Atlas of the Civil War illustrates every significant battle and military campaign while also considering the important social themes that shaped the country during the same period.
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Publisher
Pelican Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Circumstances point to a high-ranking Confederate official giving an order for Lincoln's assassination to his Canadian couriers John Surratt and Sarah Slater, putting John Wilkes Booth as plan B. The author argues that this official was the real culprit in this plot. The director of Surratt House Museum assisted with the author's research"--
