Great Battles of the Civil War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781534816596)

Great Battles of the Civil War How could a civil war come to pass only eighty-five years after the forming of a wickedly hard-sought-after unified nation? What could be so irresolvable that the people of that nation decided to tear it apart and go to war, rather than do everything possible to fix the problem? Ironically, the problem was that individual states wanted the freedom to govern themselves, which is precisely what said nation went to war over eighty-five years previously: the right of American colonies to rule themselves, instead of being subject to England. The United States fought a long, bitter, deadly war from 1861-1865 over secession, states' right to govern themselves, and the right to keep a way of life based on slavery. Great Battles of the Civil War is the story of that war, of its most shocking and violent battles: Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Atlanta, Petersburg and Sherman's March to the Sea. It is the story of the deaths of 620,000 men, catastrophe that 9/11 didn't begin to touch, and great leaders like Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Ambrose Burnside and Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. This is the story of an easy, one-day war suitable for a picnic and waving the flag that turned into four long years of disillusionment, destruction and surrender.

Author: Jack Steinberg
ISBN-10: 1534816593
ISBN-13: 9781534816596
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/20/2016
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.54d