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Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear
A detailed analysis of the end of the Vicksburg Campaign and the forty-day siege Vicksburg, Mississippi, held strong through a bitter, hard-fought, months-long Civil War campaign, but General Ulysses S. Grant's forty-day siege ended the stalemate and
Autor:
Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear
After a series of victories through Mississippi early in the spring of 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee had reached the critical point in its campaign to capture Vicksburg. Taking the city on the hill would allow the Union to co
Autor:
Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear
Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood's ill-fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first-ever anthology on the subject, The Tennessee Campaign
Autor:
Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear
When the Confederates emerged as victors in the Chickamauga Campaign, the Union Army of the Cumberland lay under siege in Chattanooga, with Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee on nearby high ground at Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. A win at Cha
Autor:
Steven E. Woodworth
Referring to the war that was raging across parts of the American landscape, Abraham Lincoln told Congress in 1862,'We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope on earth.'Lincoln recognized what was at stake in the American Civil War: not
Autor:
Steven E. Woodworth
From mid-August to mid-September 1863, Union major general William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland maneuvered from Tennessee to north Georgia in a bid to rout Confederate general Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee and blaze the way for further U
Autor:
Steven E. Woodworth
Some 100,000 soldiers fought in the April 1862 battle of Shiloh, and nearly 20,000 men were killed or wounded; more Americans died on that Tennessee battlefield than had died in all the nation's previous wars combined. In the first book in his new se
Autor:
Steven E. Woodworth
Publikováno v:
Journal of Southern History. 89:153-154
Autor:
Steven E. Woodworth
Ulysses S. Grant did more than any other single Union general to secure the North's victory in the Civil War, but he did not achieve that victory alone. Grant's ability to inspire and cultivate the talents of the officers serving under him was a key
Autor:
Steven E. Woodworth
A companion to Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg, this new volume assesses Union generalship during the final two years of the Civil War. Steven Woodworth, one of the war's premier historians, is joined by a team of distinguished scholars