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Battles and leaders of the Civil War (Volume III): being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers: based upon "The Century Wa

Battles and leaders of the Civil War (Volume III): being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers: based upon "The Century Wa

Underwood Johnson, Robert

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Presidents & Heads of StateGeneral Military HistoryGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 9353708389
ISBN13: 9789353708382
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 770
Weight: 3.86
Height: 1.53 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
War is made of voices. And decisions. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (Volume III) gathers first-hand recollections from Union and Confederate officers, shaped from the Century Magazine Civil War series into a vivid civil war history collection. Each piece is a primary source war narrative: battlefield observation, staff-room argument, and the hard logic behind strategy and command decisions. You are close enough to hear the orders, yet far enough to see how plans collided with terrain, weather, intelligence, and fear. Edited by Robert Underwood Johnson, it turns scattered testimony into the enduring Battles and Leaders Civil War record, based upon The Century War series. As a military memoir anthology, this volume balances sweeping civil war battle accounts with the intimate pressures of leadership, revealing how reputations were forged and undone across the American Civil War era. For readers new to the conflict, it offers clear, compelling entry points into the nineteenth century United States; for specialists, it remains a dependable civil war research source and a reference for historians, rich in names, places, and contested interpretations from those who were there. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this classic compilation has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure - it belongs beside any serious library of union and confederate leaders, and any shelf of American history worth returning to. For collectors of Americana, period language and viewpoints deepen the experience greatly.

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