The dogs of war : 1861 /
In 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon would be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our nation's worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of more than half a million people. But as eminent Civil War historian Emory Thomas points out in this...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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Series: | Pivotal moments in American history.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- The martial moment, 1861
- War dogs, 1861 and after
- Abraham Lincoln and the coming of the war
- Jefferson Davis and the coming of the war
- Chum : first blood in Bull Run, 1861
- Conclusion : resonance.