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A Great Civil War is a major new interpretation of the events which continue to dominate the American imagination and identity nearly 150 years after the war's end. In personal as well as historical terms, more even than the war for independence, the Civil War has been the defining experience of American democracy. A lifelong student of both strategy and tactics, Weigley also brings to his account a deep understanding of the importance of individuals from generals to captains to privates. He can put the reader on the battlefield as well as anyone who has ever written about war. All of the important engagements are covered, and he does it countless times in A Great Civil War. From Fort Sumter to the early clashes in the West and border states to the naval encounters in the East and on through the great and horrible battles whose names resound in American history--Shiloh, Corinth, Bull Run, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Antietam, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Appomattox. A brilliant narrator of battle action and historical events, Weigley is never content merely to tell a good story. Every student of war will find new insights and interpretations at the strategic and the tactical level. There are firm judgments throughout of the leaders on both sides of the conflict. A Great Civil War also analyzes the politics of both sides in relationship to battlefield situations. Weigley is unique in his ability to put all of the pieces on the board at once; the reader understands as never before how war and politics (and individuals) interacted to produce the infinitely complex story which is the Civil War. As with any major work, there are themes and subtexts, explicit and implicit: Both sides began the war with strategic and tactical concepts based on Napoleon which were already obsolete because of changes in technology--and both sides struggled throughout the war to develop new strategic and tactical procedures. The Civil War was great not only in the massiveness of the slaughter and destruction. It was, for all its horror, a war about values--democracy and the freeing of the slaves--that was worth the effort. The South, despite its powerful defense, was ultimately ambivalent about leaving the Union and gave up more easily than might have been expected. Finally, there is an intimacy, a sense of personal urgency, in Weigley's grand account. He is connected by blood as well as profession. Jacob Weigley, the author's great grandfather, visited Gettysburg soon after the battle and wrote about it to his brother Francis, who was serving with the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry; Francis later died in a Confederate prison camp. Then and now the Weigleys live in Pennsylvania, and the war and its lessons remain part of the family's living memory, as it is also the nation's.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
0253337380
ISBN-13
9780253337382
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Author
Russell F. Weigley
Publication Name
Great Civil War : a Military and Political History, 1861-1865
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
648 Pages

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9.2in
Item Height
1.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
39.6 Oz

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E468.W425 2000
Reviews
The scale and the sophistication of A Great Civil War put it on a level with James McPherson's epic Battle Cry of Freedom, " . . . intellectual virtuosity, regularly repeated in these pages, make this notable book the counterpoint to James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom."--Publishers Weekly"Weigley always ensures that his discussion of the war keeps the political dimension verymuch in the foreground. . . . there is much to admire in the breadth of his coverage."--BrianHolden Reid, The Times Higher, June 14, 2002
Table of Content
List of Maps Note on Style Introduction To the Gettysburg Address Nineteenth-Century Americans at War Why Did They Fight? Chapter One. From Secession to War The Forts at Charleston The Anomalous Southern Nation The South Begins to Mobilize Fort Sumter: The Crisis Approaches Fort Sumter: The Bombardment Militant America Chapter Two. The Battle Lines Form Napoleonic War War in a New Style Washington Rescued Contentious Missouri: A Failure for Both Sides Neutralist Kentucky Western Virginia: Secession within Secession Mobilizing the Union First Bull Run Chapter Three. Groping for Strategy and Purpose The Union: War Aims at Military Frustration The Confederacy: Recruitment, finance, Blockade, and War Production The Invincible United States Navy The Trent Affair and a Paper Tiger The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War Lincoln and the Purpose of the War McClellan and the Purpose of the War Chapter Four. Bloodshed and Indecision An Unhappy New Year Mill Springs A Western Strategy Takes Shape Pea Ridge: The Great Battle of the Trans-Mississippi The Far West Forts Henry and Donelson Shiloh Western Drumbeat: New Madrid, Island No. 10, The Locomotive General, Corinth, New Orleans Conscription in the South The Potomac Front Battle of Ironclads McClellan Launches the Peninsula Campaign Stonewall Jackson''s Valley Campaign The Climax on the Peninsula: The Seven Days Chapter Five. The Confederacy Takes the Initiative Cedar Mountain and Second Bull Run Lee''s First Strategic Offensive: The Maryland Campaign Confederate Riposte in the West: Iuka and Corinth Confederate Offensive in the West: The Kentucky Campaign Lee versus McClellan--For the Last Time Chapter Six. Of Liberty and War The End of Slavery: The Sea Islands The End of Slavery: Congressional Action The End of Slavery: The President Liberty Imperiled in the Name of Liberty The End of Slavery: Arming African Americans Chapter Seven. Armies and Societies Fredericksburg, the Mississippi River Campaign, and Stones River Lincoln and the Republican Party Congress Refashions the Union The Union Pays for Its War Dissent in War: The Opposition in the North Inside the Confederacy Charleston Harbor and Chancellorsville Chapter Eight. Three Seasons of Battle Paying the Toll of War: The Military Draft in the North The March to Gettysburg Gettysburg: The Battle Gettysburg: The Assessment Vicksburg: Preparations Vicksburg: Grant''s Great Campaign of Maneuver Warfare The Trans-Mississippi Chickamauga Chattanooga Coda Chapter Nine. On the Horizon, the Postwar World Assuring Freedom The Burden of Race From Battlefield to Polling Place (I) The Beginnings of Reconstruction The Union: The War, the Economy, and the Society The Confederacy: Accelerating Breakdown Chapter Ten. Traditional Politics and Modern War Lincoln Renominated The Union Army Retained The Generalship of U.S. Grant The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor The Race to Petersburg The Siege of Petersburg: The First Phase C.S.S. Alabama A Catalog of Union Frustration: Red River, Bermuda Hundred, and Washington The Politics of Military Deadlock Chapter Eleven. Suspense and Resolution Chattanooga to Atlanta Battling for Atlanta Mobile Bay Sheridan''s Valley Campaign From Battlefield to Polling Place (II) Chapter Twelve. The Relentless War Sheridan''s War against the Enemy''s Economy Sheridan''s War against the Enemy''s Economy and Morale The Death Throes of the Confederacy The End of Slavery: The Constitutional Assurance Chapter Thirteen. The Fires Die Franklin and Nashville The Campaign of the Carolinas The Petersburg Campaign: Summer 1865 - Spring 1865 To Appomattox Richmond and Reunion Durham Station The Terrible Assassination, and the Terrible War The Sudden Death of the Confederacy Notes Bibliography
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Lccn
99-089885
Dewey Decimal
973.7
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History

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