Road To Appomattox

Author : Robert Hendrickson
Publisher : Thorndike Press
ISBN 13 : 9780783893723
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Appomattox written by Robert Hendrickson and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the military operations of the Civil War includes analyses of the leadership and strategies of both sides of the conflict.

Author : Bell Irvin Wiley
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807119112
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Road To Appomattox written by Bell Irvin Wiley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published forty years ago, Bell Irvin Wiley’s The Road to Appomattox marked one of the first efforts by a Civil War scholar to identify the internal causes of the South’s defeat. Today this elegant little book remains one of the most penetrating, thought-provoking works on the subject. In the book’s three chapters, Wiley treats three broad reasons for the failure of the Confederacy: weak political leadership, low morale among the populace, and four “internal influences” in the South. Those four shortcomings stemmed from traits apparently endemic to southerners in general, Wiley explains, and they included disharmony among and between political and military leaders; the government’s failure to provide adequate public information systems; rigidity in outlook and course of action; and poor judgment, especially of the North’s strength, the South’s own strength, and Europe’s dependence on cotton. Recent years have witnessed a number of significant studies dealing with Confederate defeat, particularly with the failings of Davis as war leader and with the complex issue of the South’s dedication to the cause. Wiley was one of the first historians to raise these issues and discuss them trenchantly. Those familiar with The Road to Appomattox will cheer the reissue of this resonant work; first-time readers will see why.

Author : Bell Irvin Wiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Appomattox written by Bell Irvin Wiley and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385044518
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Stillness at Appomattox written by Bruce Catton and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1990-08-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • America's foremost Civil War historian recounts the final year of the Civil War in his final volume of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy. Bruce Catton takes the reader through the battles of the Wilderness, the Bloody Angle, Cold Harbot, the Crater, and on through the horrible months to one moment at Appomattox. Grant, Meade, Sheridan, and Lee vividly come to life in all their failings and triumphs.

Author : C. Carter Smith
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9781562942649
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Appomattox written by C. Carter Smith and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses contemporary pictures and maps in presenting the story of the trappers, miners, ranchers, and farmers who turned a huge wilderness into the breadbasket of the world

Author : Richard Sapp
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 9780836864311
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ulysses S. Grant and the Road to Appomattox written by Richard Sapp and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the life and details the military career of Ulysses S. Grant, General of the Union Army during the Civil War and eighteenth president of the United States.

Author : Robert Hendrickson
Publisher : Castle Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780785820598
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Road to Appomattox written by Robert Hendrickson and published by Castle Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how the North finally defeated the South in the Civil War, using vivid descriptions, the words of actual participants, and helpful photos and illustrations.

Author : United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appomattox Court House written by United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, which ended the Civil War, and the battles fought in the days before it. Also contains essays on events leading up to the Civil War and the implications of Appomattox for the post-Civil War generation, and a tourist's guide to the park.

Author : MacKinlay Kantor
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781402751240
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lee and Grant at Appomattox written by MacKinlay Kantor and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Pulitzer Prize winner comes the story of an unforgettable moment in American history: the historic meeting between General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant that ended the Civil War. MacKinlay Kantor captures all the emotions and the details of those few days: the aristocratic Lee’s feeling of resignation; Grant’s crippling headaches; and Lee’s request--which Grant generously allowed--to permit his soldiers to keep their horses so they could plant crops for food.

Author : Heather Cox Richardson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300137850
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West from Appomattox written by Heather Cox Richardson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This thoughtful, engaging examination of the Reconstruction Era . . . will be appealing . . . to anyone interested in the roots of present-day American politics” (Publishers Weekly). The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. In many ways, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners forged a national identity that united three very different regions into a country that could become a world power. A sweeping history of the United States from the era of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, this engaging book tracks the formation of the American middle class while stretching the boundaries of our understanding of Reconstruction. Historian Heather Cox Richardson ties the North and West into the post–Civil War story that usually focuses narrowly on the South. By weaving together the experiences of real individuals who left records in their own words—from ordinary Americans such as a plantation mistress, a Native American warrior, and a labor organizer, to prominent historical figures such as Andrew Carnegie, Julia Ward Howe, Booker T. Washington, and Sitting Bull—Richardson tells a story about the creation of modern America.