Battles and leaders of the Civil War. Volume 5 / edited by Peter Cozzens
2002, First Edition. Urbana : University of Illinois Press. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #454557
ISBN: 0252024044
Series; Battles and leaders of the Civil War ; 5. Physical description; xxii, 714 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Supplement to the four volume work: Battles and leaders of the Civil War / edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel. 1887-1888. Contents; Prelude to war: Recollections of the John Brown raid / Colonel Alexander R. Boteler -- Mob violence in Baltimore / General John C. Robinson -- War in 1861: First battle of the war: Big Bethel / General John B. Magruder -- With Generals Bee and Jackson at first Manassas / Major William M. Robbins -- Folly and fiasco in West Virginia / General William B. Taliaferro -- Missouri's unionists at war / Montgomery Blair -- Avenging first Bull Run: Port Royal expedition / General Egbert L. Viele -- Leaders, civilian and military: Life in the White House with President Lincoln / John Hay -- Reminiscences of General Grant / General James Harrison Wilson -- Real Stonewall Jackson / General Daniel Harvey Hill -- Recollections of Nathan Bedford Forrest / General Dabney H. Maury -- Eastern Theatre in 1862: In the air above Yorktown / General George Armstrong Custer -- Our first battle, Bull Pasture Mountain [McDowell] / Captain Alfred E. Lee -- Undeserved stigma: Fitz John Porter at second Bull Run / General Ulysses S. Grant -- Witness to mutiny at Antietam / George W. Smalley -- Reserve at Antietam / Colonel Thomas M. Anderson -- My story of Fredericksburg / General Joshua L. Chamberlain -- Lee at Fredericksburg / Major J. Horace Lacy -- Western Theatre in 1862: Desperation and heroism at the Battle of Valverde / Lieutenant Franklin Cook -- Shiloh campaign / General Pierre G.T. Beauregard -- Great locomotive chase / Private Jacob Parrott -- Attack on Corinth / Captain Clinton H. Parkhurst -- Losing a division at Stones River / General Richard W. Johnson -- Eastern Theatre in 1863: When the Rappahannock ran red / General James R. O'Beirne -- Campaign and battle of Gettysburg / General Oliver Otis Howard -- Gettysburg: reply to General Howard / General Winfield S. Hancock -- Why Lee lost at Gettysburg / General Henry Heth -- Lincoln at Gettysburg / Isaac Wayne MacVeagh -- Western Theatre in 1863: Winter at Vicksburg / General Dabney H. Maury -- Defending Port Hudson / Colonel P.F. de Gournay -- From Tullahoma to Chattanooga / General William S. Rosecrans -- Chickamauga / Colonel Benjamin F. Sawyer -- Holding Burnside in check in East Tennessee / General Samuel Jones -- Charging with Sheridan up Missionary Ridge / General Michael V. Sheridan -- Forgotten fight on Tunnel Hill / General Green B. Raum -- Eastern Theatre in 1864: Grant's conduct of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania campaigns / General Edward Porter Alexander -- Lee's response to Grant's Overland campaign / Colonel William R. Livermore -- Grant and Sheridan in 1864: Study in contrasts / President Rutherford B. Hayes -- Tough tussle with Sheridan / Colonel Jacob Weddle -- Boys in battle at New Market / John S. Wise -- Fighting for Petersburg / Thomas T. Roche -- Western Theatre in 1864: Terrible day: Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864 / General John W. Fuller -- March to the sea, an armed picnic / General William P. Carlin -- Red River expedition / Captain William S. Burns -- Question of command at Franklin / Generals David S. Stanley and Jacob D. Cox, and Colonel Henry Stone -- Fireside and field of battle: "Little Jim," the pride of the regiment / Harry M. Kieffer -- They followed the army: Anguish of runaway slaves / Lieutenant John Walton -- War in 1865: Victory at Fort Fisher / General John W. Ames -- Conference at City Point / General William T. Sherman -- Lee at Appomattox / General Edward Porter Alexander -- My negotiations with General Sherman / General Joseph E. Johnston -- Last days of the Confederate government / Stephen R. Mallory -- Postscript: Interview with General Longstreet / Henry W. Grady. Subjects; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. Generals -- United States -- Biography.
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