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The American War : a history of the Civil War era / Gary W.Gallagher, Joan Waugh.

Gallagher, Gary W. (Author). Waugh, Joan, (author.).

Summary:

Offers the full context of the war's coming, its course at home and in the field, and its consequences, both as it happened and as Americans chose to remember it.

Record details

ISBN: 9780991037513
ISBN: 0991037510
Physical Description: 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Edition: First Flip Learning hardcover edition.
Publisher: State College, PA : Flip Learning, 2015.
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Expansion, nation, and perception : the road to secession and war -- Two republics gird for war -- War in earnest : shifting military tides in 1862 -- A war of citizen-soldiers -- The process of emancipation -- Heavy blows but no decision : the winter of 1862 to the spring of 1864 -- A struggle between nations -- Women and the war -- Pressing through to Union victory : the spring of 1864 to the spring of 1865 -- Reconstruction and the problems of reunification, 1863-1868 -- The end of reconstruction, 1868-1877 -- The wartime generation that remembers the conflict.