Ends of War
The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army After Appomattox
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The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands of wounded and exhausted men fell out of the ranks. When word spread that Lee planned to surrender, most remaining troops stacked their arms and accepted paroles allowing them to return home, even as they lamented the loss of their country and cause. But others broke south and west, hoping to continue the fight. Fearing a guerrilla war, Grant extended the generous Appomattox terms to every rebel who would surrender himself. Provost marshals fanned out across Virginia and beyond, seeking nearly 18,000 of Lee's men who had yet to surrender. But the shock of Lincoln's assassination led Northern authorities to see threats of new rebellion in every rail depot and harbor where Confederates gathered for transport, even among those already paroled. While Federal troops struggled to keep order and sustain a fragile peace, their newly surrendered adversaries seethed with anger and confusion at the sight of Union troops occupying their towns and former slaves celebrating freedom. Caroline E. Janney reveals that Lee's surrender was less an ending than the start of an interregnum marked by military and political uncertainty, legal and logistical confusion, and continued outbursts of violence.
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De: Jeffry D. Wert
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The Second Manassas Campaign
- De: Caroline E. Janney - editor, Kathryn J. Shively - editor
- Narrado por: April Doty
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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Waged from June 26 to September 1, 1862, the Second Manassas campaign pitted the US Armies of Virginia and the Potomac against the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and its new commander, Robert E. Lee. The campaign unfolded against a backdrop of momentous US political decisions regarding confiscation, emancipation, and Confederate civilians. These decisions dismayed and energized Confederates, sparking the debut of Lee's offensive strategy. Weeks of strategic movements were punctuated by savage fighting that culminated in a climactic battle on August 28-30.
De: Caroline E. Janney - editor, y otros
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A Worse Place than Hell
- How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
- De: John Matteson
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 21 h
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December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country's law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Intertwining!
- De Peter H. Christensen en 09-02-21
De: John Matteson
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Armies of Deliverance
- A New History of the Civil War
- De: Elizabeth R. Varon
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 17 h y 41 m
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Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Northerners imagined the war as a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination and to bring democracy, prosperity, and education to the region. As the war escalated, Lincoln and his allies built the case that emancipation would secure military victory and benefit the North and South alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First rate history
- De John S. Pachter en 06-10-24
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Wide Awake
- The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
- De: Jon Grinspan
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
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At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men, and a number of women, were organizing boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing brigades of their own. These Wide Awakes--mostly working-class Americans in their twenties--became one of the largest, most spectacular, and most influential political movements in our history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting account
- De MikeEC en 06-06-24
De: Jon Grinspan
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Longstreet at Gettysburg
- A Critical Reassessment
- De: Cory M. Pfarr
- Narrado por: Mike Hennessy
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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This is the first book-length, critical analysis of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's actions at the Battle of Gettysburg. The author argues that Longstreet's record has been discredited unfairly, beginning with character assassination by his contemporaries after the war and, persistently, by historians in the decades since. By closely studying the three-day battle, and conducting an incisive historiographical inquiry into Longstreet's treatment by scholars, this book presents an alternative view of Longstreet as an effective military leader.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Longstreet Vindicated
- De Mr. Noodle en 10-24-23
De: Cory M. Pfarr
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Lincoln's Peace
- The Struggle to End the American Civil War
- De: Michael Vorenberg
- Narrado por: Landon Woodson
- Duración: 16 h y 40 m
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We set out on the James River, March 25, 1865, aboard the paddle steamboat River Queen. President Lincoln is on his way to General Grant’s headquarters at City Point, Virginia, and he’s decided he won’t return to Washington until he’s witnessed, or perhaps even orchestrated, the end of the Civil War. Now, it turns out, more than a century and a half later, historians are still searching for that end.
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In the Shadow of the Round Tops
- Longstreet's Countermarch, Johnston's Reconnaissance, and the Enduring Battles for the Memory of July 2, 1863
- De: Allen R. Thompson
- Narrado por: Shawn Compton
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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James Longstreet's countermarch and Samuel Johnston's morning reconnaissance are two of the most enigmatic events of the Battle of Gettysburg. Both have been viewed as major factors in the Confederacy's loss of the battle and, in turn, the war. Yet much of it lies shrouded in mystery. Recognizing the multitude of factors that affect human memory, In the Shadow of the Round Tops explores how the individual soldiers experienced, remembered, and wrote about the battle, and how those memories have created a cloud over James Longstreet's countermarch and Samuel Johnston's reconnaissance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing read for any Gettysburg buff!
- De Amazon Customer en 03-19-24
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Mr. Lincoln's Army
- De: Bruce Catton
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 17 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 283
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A magnificent history of the opening years of the Civil War by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton. The first book in Bruce Catton's Pulitzer Prize-winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln's Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very poor reader with great material
- De L Day en 07-28-16
De: Bruce Catton
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The Union War
- De: Gary W. Gallagher
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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Even 150 years later, we are haunted by the Civil War---by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary W. Gallagher shows in this brilliant revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Non-revisionist
- De Chiefkent en 07-19-12
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Appomattox
- Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
- De: Elizabeth R. Varon
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House evokes a highly gratifying image in the popular mind - it was, many believe, a moment that transcended politics, a moment of healing, a moment of patriotism untainted by ideology. But as Elizabeth Varon reveals in this vividly narrated history, this rosy image conceals a seething debate over precisely what the surrender meant and what kind of nation would emerge from war. The combatants in that debate included the iconic Lee and Grant, but they also included a cast of characters previously overlooked.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Meaning in the Post Civil War Era
- De David S. Mathew en 05-05-16
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American Civil Wars
- A Continental History, 1850-1873
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights. Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story, from Joseph Hooker, whose timidity in crisis was exploited by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Union defeat at Chancellorsville, to Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Black abolitionists whose critical work in Canada and the United States advanced emancipation and the enrollment of Black soldiers in Union armies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fascinating!
- De Brandon Marken en 07-12-24
De: Alan Taylor
Awesome Prelude to Reconstruction
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Worth listening
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Another unaddressed chapter in history brought to life.
Excellent book! Long overdue.
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