{"product_id":"the-american-civil-war-edgar-dawkins-9798294443542","title":"The American Civil War: An Illustrated History of the War That Tore a Nation Apart for Young Readers","description":"\u003cp\u003eA nation founded on liberty did not drift into war; it tore itself apart. The conflict began not on a battlefield, but with a cane cracking against bone on the floor of the U.S. Senate-the sound of debate ending for good. Following the lead of secessionist \"fire-eaters,\" states left the Union and proudly built a new nation \"thoroughly identified\" with slavery. When the first mortar shell exploded over Fort Sumter, it was not a surprise. It was the start of a fight for the continent's soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat followed was not one war, but many. In the East, it was a bloody chess match where the audacity of Robert E. Lee repeatedly paralyzed the Union's massive army. In the West, it was a brutal, grinding fight for the rivers that were the Confederacy's lifelines, a war that produced a new kind of hero in the relentless Ulysses S. Grant. But the war itself was transformed when Abraham Lincoln, acting as Commander-in-Chief, unleashed a weapon more powerful than any cannon: the Emancipation Proclamation. The war for Union became a crusade for freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book peels back the layers of myth to reveal the war's brutal machinery. It descends into the man-made hells of prison camps and the terror of guerrilla raids where rules of combat collapsed. The final campaigns were a form of annihilation, as Grant's grim arithmetic and Sherman's \"hard war\" were designed to crush not just an army, but the will of a people. A slave-holding aristocracy was destroyed. A new, more powerful nation was forged in blood and iron. The United States was not preserved-it was violently reborn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edgar Dawkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798294443542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.10d","brand":"Edgar Dawkins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997065359615,"sku":"9798294443542","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-american-civil-war-edgar-dawkins-9798294443542","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}