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The illustrated Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era / James M. McPherson.
- Title
- The illustrated Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era / James M. McPherson.
- Author
- McPherson, James M.
- Publication
- Oxford, [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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| Text | Request in advance | E470 .M46 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McPherson, James M.
- Description
- xiv, 786 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps; 29 cm.
- Summary
- The 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner now boasts some seven hundred pictures, including a hundred and fifty color images and twenty-four full-color maps. McPherson has selected all the illustrations, including rare contemporary photographs, period cartoons, etchings, woodcuts, and paintings, carefully choosing those that best illuminate the narrative. He has also written extensive captions (some 35,000 words in all, virtually a book in themselves), many of which offer new information and interpretations that enhance the original text. The text itself, streamlined by McPherson, remains a fast-paced narrative that captures two decades of contentious American history, from the Mexican War to Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Along with a chronicle of the war itself -- the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities -- readers will find McPherson's commentary on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Pictorial works
- Note
- Rev. ed. of: Battle cry of freedom.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- From the halls of Montezuma -- The United States at midcentury -- Mexico will poison us -- An empire for slavery -- Slavery, rum, and Romanism -- The crime against Kansas -- Mudsills and greasy mechanics for A. Lincoln -- The revolution of 1860 -- The counterrevolution of 1861 -- Facing both ways: The upper South's dilemma -- Amateurs go to war -- Farewell to the ninety days' war -- Blockade and beachhead: The salt-water war, 1861-1862 -- The river war in 1862 -- The Sinews of war -- Billy Yank's Chickahominy blues -- We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued -- Carry me back to old Virginny -- John Bull's Virginia reel -- Three rivers in Winter, 1862-1863 -- Fire in the rear -- Long remember: The summer of '63 -- Johnny Reb's Chattanooga blues -- When this cruel war is over -- If it takes all Summer -- After four years of failure -- We are going to be wiped off the Earth -- South Carolina must be destroyed -- We are all Americans -- To the shoals of victory.
- ISBN
- 0195168283 (signed leather ed. : acid-free paper)
- 0195159012 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2003009267
- OCLC
- 52208746
- SCSB-11663323
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library