Smith R. American Civil War: Union Army

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2006. - 1020 pages. Обе части архива извлечь в одну папку. The compelling story of American history since reconstruction The American Republic Since 1877 presents the rich saga of American history after the Civil War. Adapted from the modern history portion of The American Vision, this program features the same exceptional scholarship, accurate maps, peerless resources, and unique strategies found in The American Vision.

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2006. - 1020 pages. Обе части архива извлечь в одну папку. The compelling story of American history since reconstruction The American Republic Since 1877 presents the rich saga of American history after the Civil War. Adapted from the modern history portion of The American Vision, this program features the same exceptional scholarship, accurate maps, peerless resources, and unique strategies found in The American Vision.

Center of Military History United States Army, 2011 - 574 p. ISBN: 1780394616 The impetus for Freedom by the Sword came from Brig. Gen. (Ret.) John S. Brown, the U.S. Army’s Chief of Military History from 1998 until his retirement in 2005. William A. Dobak, an authority on the history of black soldiers in the nineteenth century and an award-winning historian at the Center of Military History, took charge of the project beginning in 2003. The ye...

N.-Y.: Routledge, 2010. - 396 p. Themes of the American Civil War offers a timely and useful guide to this vast topic for a new generation of students. The volume provides a broad-ranging assessment of the causes, complexities, and consequences of America’s most destructive conflict to date. The essays, written by top scholars in the field, and reworked for this new edition, explore how, and in what ways, differing interpretations of the war hav...

The University of North Carolina Press, 2005 - 464 p. ISBN10: 0807829315 ISBN13: 9780807829318 (eng) The eastern campaigns of the Civil War involved the widespread use of field fortifications, from Big Bethel and the Peninsula to Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Charleston, and Mine Run. While many of these fortifications were meant to last only as long as the battle, Earl J. Hess argues that their history is deeply significant. The Civil War saw m...

Lawrence W. Baker, Editor Includes bibliographical references and index. 2000 289 р. American Civil War: Almanac presents a comprehensive overview of the Civil War. The volume’s fourteen chapters cover all aspects of the conflict, from the prewar issues and events that divided the nation to the war itself—an epic struggle from 1861 to 1865 that changed the political and social landscape of America forever. The chapters are arranged chronological...

Smithsonian, 2009 - 320 p. In April 1865, the steamboat Sultana slowly moved up the Mississippi River, its overtaxed engines straining under the weight of twenty-four hundred passengers—mostly Union soldiers, recently paroled from Confederate prison camps. At 2 a.m., three of Sultana's four boilers exploded. Within twenty minutes, the boat went down in flames, and an estimated seventeen hundred lives were lost. The worst maritime disaster in...

Cambridge University Press, 1993. - 281 pp. The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 analyzes the period between the American Civil War and World War I (1865-1913) as the formative basis for twentieth-century American world power-"The American Century" as it has become known-and examines the "Imperial Presidency" that these roots produced. The extent of U.S. power was so great that it not only transformed American society, but reshaped oth...

University Press of Mississippi, 2010 - 304 p. ISBN10: 1604734299 ISBN13: 9781604734294 (eng) In Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front, Timothy B. Smith examines Mississippi's Civil War defeat by both outside and inside forces. The invading Union army dismantled the state's political system, infrastructure, economy, and fighting capability. The state saw extensive military operations, destruction, and bloodshed within her borders. One of...

University of Missouri, 2010 - 288 p. A German-born Union officer in the American Civil War, Maj. Gen. Peter Osterhaus served from the first clash in the western theater until the final surrender of the war. Osterhaus made a name for himself within the army as an energetic and resourceful commander who led his men from the front. He was one of the last surviving Union major general and military governor of Mississippi in the early days of Recons...