Lieutenant General James Longstreet
Innovative Military Strategist: The Most Misunderstood Civil War General
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Lieutenant-General James Longstreet, commander of the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, was a brilliant tactician and strategist. Prior to the Civil War there were many technological developments, of which the rifled musket and cannon, rail transport, and the telegraph were a few. Longstreet adapted to these technological changes and the disparity between the belligerents making recommendations on how the war should be fought. Unfortunately, his advice was not heeded and given the weight it deserved. In contrast to many other southern generals, Longstreet advocated for defensive warfare, using entrenchments and trying to maneuver the enemy to assault his position, conserving manpower, resources, and supplies.
Longstreet was a pragmatic and methodical general and had his suggestions been utilized there would have been a better outcome for the South. Many historians and biographers have misunderstood Longstreet and his motives, not focusing on the total picture. This work offers a fresh and unique perspective on Lieutenant-General James Longstreet and the Civil War. This narrative takes a new viewpoint of the Civil War and the generals who tailored their designs to pursue the war, analyzes Longstreet's views of the generals and the tactics and strategy they employed, and examines why Longstreet proposed and urged a new type of warfare.
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The Compleat Victory
- Saratoga and the American Revolution
- De: Kevin Weddle
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 18 h y 24 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 52
In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in the balance. Having successfully expelled the Americans from Canada in 1776, the British were determined to end the rebellion the following year and devised what they believed a war-winning strategy, sending General John Burgoyne south to rout the Americans and take Albany.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great insight to the tactical and strategic impacts of Saratoga.
- De Ace en 12-07-24
De: Kevin Weddle
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The Seven Days
- The Emergence of Robert E. Lee and the Dawn of a Legend
- De: Clifford Dowdey
- Narrado por: Nicholas Tecosky
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
The Seven Days Campaign was a series of battles fought near Richmond at the end of June 1862. General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had routed General George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac. Depriving McClellan of a military decision meant the war would continue for two more years. The Seven Days depicts a critical turning point in the Civil War that would ingrain Robert E. Lee in history as one of the finest generals of all time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Seven Days:A different Title would work
- De Margaret Harley en 09-10-21
De: Clifford Dowdey
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The Confederacy's Last Hurrah
- Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
- De: Wiley Sword
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 22 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 96
Though he barely escaped expulsion from West Point, John Bell Hood quickly rose through the ranks of the Confederate army. With bold leadership in the battles of Gaines' Mill and Antietam, Hood won favor with Confederate president Jefferson Davis. But his fortunes in war took a tragic turn when he assumed command of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. After the fall of Atlanta, Hood marched his troops north in an attempt to draw Union army general William T. Sherman from his devastating "March to the Sea." But the ploy proved ruinous for the South.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Oh dear, pronunciation again
- De Charles en 08-07-20
De: Wiley Sword
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The Cornfield
- Antietam's Bloody Turning Point
- De: David A. Welker
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 50
For generations of Americans, the word Antietam - the name of a bucolic stream in western Maryland - held the same sense of horror and carnage that the date 9/11 does for Americans today. But Antietam eclipses even this modern tragedy as America's single bloodiest day, on which 22,000 men became casualties in a war to determine our nation's future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Micro history at its finest
- De Amanda Tyler en 04-07-24
De: David A. Welker
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Hearts Touched by Fire
- The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
- De: Harold Holzer
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett, Traber Burns, Robin Field, y otros
- Duración: 50 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
In July 1883, just a few days after the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at the Century magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired a brainstorm: Why not let the magazine’s 125,000 readers in on the conversation by offering “a series of papers on some of the great battles of the war, to be written by officers in command on both sides.”
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3 out of 5 stars
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A good audiobook with one big flaw
- De William M. en 12-03-15
De: Harold Holzer
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Chancellorsville
- De: Stephen Sears
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 23 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 193
A former editor of American Heritage, Stephen W. Sears has collected a wealth of new sources for this definitive portrait of one of the most dramatic battles of the Civil War. Using scores of letters and diaries written by soldiers from both Union and Confederate armies, Sears’ narrative history seeks to strip away the gloss of later commentary and restore the battle of Chancellorsville to its original voices.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's a Wonderful Tool
- De Drake M. Davis en 08-23-14
De: Stephen Sears
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
- De: Ulysses S. Grant
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 29 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,589
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,345
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,341
Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant’s is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood, to his heroics in battle, to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War ironically rescued him, these memoirs are a mesmerizing, deeply moving account of a brilliant man told with great courage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly funny and very informative.
- De Trent en 08-20-12
De: Ulysses S. Grant
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Gettysburg’s Peach Orchard
- Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the “Commanding Ground” Along the Emmitsburg Road
- De: James A. Hessler, Britt C. Isenberg
- Narrado por: Bob Neufeld
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
Licensed battlefield guide James Hessler has produced the most deeply-researched, full-length biography to appear on this remarkable American icon. No individual who fought at Gettysburg was more controversial, both personally and professionally, than Major General Daniel E. Sickles. For Civil War enthusiasts who want to understand General Sickles’ scandalous life, Gettysburg’s battlefield strategies, the in-fighting within the Army of the Potomac, and the development of today’s National Park will find Sickles at Gettysburg it is a must-listen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional Book
- De Jimbo en 04-07-21
De: James A. Hessler, y otros
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Lincoln's Lieutenants
- The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
- De: Stephen W. Sears
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 32 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 172
The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good, but not what I thought
- De Paul S. en 08-10-17
De: Stephen W. Sears
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The Early Morning of War: Bull Run, 1861 (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
- De: Edward G. Longacre
- Narrado por: Aaron Killian
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 44
When Union and Confederate forces squared off along Bull Run on July 21, 1861, the Federals expected this first major military campaign would bring an early end to the Civil War. But when Confederate troops launched a strong counterattack, both sides realized the war would be longer and costlier than anticipated. First Bull Run, or First Manassas, set the stage for four years of bloody conflict that forever changed the political, social, and economic fabric of the nation. It also introduced the commanders, tactics, and weaponry that would define the American way of war through the turn of the twentieth century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book of this early battle
- De Bradley Behrhorst en 09-02-22
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Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher
- The Military Genius of the Man Who Won the Civil War
- De: Edward H. Bonekemper III
- Narrado por: E. Roy Worley
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Ulysses S. Grant is often accused of being a cold-hearted butcher of his troops. In Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher, historian Edward H. Bonekemper III proves that Grant's casualty rates actually compared favorably with those of other Civil War generals. His perseverance, decisiveness, moral courage, and political acumen place him among the greatest generals of the Civil War - indeed, of all military history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting history
- De Katherine en 08-21-15
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On to Petersburg
- Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
- De: Gordon C. Rhea
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 16 h y 21 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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On to Petersburg follows the Union army's movement to the James River, the military response from the Confederates, and the initial assault on Petersburg, which Rhea suggests marked the true end of the Overland Campaign. Beginning his account in the immediate aftermath of Grant's three-day attack on Confederate troops at Cold Harbor, Rhea argues that the Union general's primary goal was not - as often supposed - to take Richmond, but rather to destroy Lee's army by closing off its retreat routes and disrupting its supply chain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important to understanding the Overland Campaign
- De Jimbo en 12-29-19
De: Gordon C. Rhea
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To the Gates of Richmond
- The Peninsula Campaign
- De: Stephen Sears
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 155
It was the largest campaign ever attempted in the Civil War: the Peninsula campaign of 1862. General George McClellan planned to advance from Yorktown up the Virginia Peninsula and destroy the Rebel army in its own capital. But with Robert E. Lee delivering blows to the Union army, McClellan’s plan fell through at the gates of Richmond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent chronicle of mismanagement
- De Triceracop en 10-08-13
De: Stephen Sears
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A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, Volume 1
- From the Crossing of the James to the Crater
- De: A. Wilson Greene, Gary W. W. Gallagher - foreword
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 25 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee squared off for more than nine months in their struggle for Petersburg, the key to the Confederate capital at Richmond. Featuring some of the war's most notorious battles, the campaign played out against a backdrop of political drama and crucial fighting elsewhere, with massive costs for soldiers and civilians alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well documented and fills a big gap
- De Ripley en 10-29-24
De: A. Wilson Greene, y otros
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume I, Fort Sumter to Perryville
- De: Shelby Foote
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 42 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,201
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,914
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,907
The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 1 begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days Battles, and Antietam, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, and Monitor versus Merrimac.
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5 out of 5 stars
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OUTSTANDING! I'M PROUD TO BE A BLACK AMERICAN!!
- De The Louligan en 08-22-13
De: Shelby Foote
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Lee and His Men at Gettysburg
- The Death of a Nation
- De: Clifford Dowdey
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
In this sweeping account Clifford Dowdey recreates one of the most important battles in U.S. history. With vivid and breathtaking detail, Lee and His Men at Gettysburg is both a historical work and an honorary ode to the almost 50,000 soldiers who died at the fields of Pennsylvania. Written with an emphasis on the Confederate forces, the book captures the brilliance and frustration of a general forced to contend with overwhelming odds and in-competent subordinates.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Solid book
- De Scooter Reviews en 12-08-17
De: Clifford Dowdey