What Was The Civil War All About Anyway
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What Was The Civil War All About Anyway
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Author : Carole Marsh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-06-01
What Was The Civil War All About Anyway written by Carole Marsh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with History categories.
Includes inserted feature The Civil War in a nutshell.
The Next Civil War
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Author : Stephen Marche
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-01-03
The Next Civil War written by Stephen Marche and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-03 with History categories.
“Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well researched and eloquently presented.” —The Atlantic * “Delivers Cormac McCarthy-worthy drama; while the nonfictional asides imbue that drama with the authority of documentary.” —The New York Times Book Review A celebrated journalist takes a fiercely divided America and imagines five chilling scenarios that lead to its collapse, based on in-depth interviews with experts of all kinds. The United States is coming to an end. The only question is how. On a small two-lane bridge in a rural county that loathes the federal government, the US Army uses lethal force to end a standoff with hard-right anti-government patriots. Inside an ordinary diner, a disaffected young man with a handgun takes aim at the American president stepping in for an impromptu photo-op, and a bullet splits the hyper-partisan country into violently opposed mourners and revelers. In New York City, a Category 2 hurricane plunges entire neighborhoods underwater and creates millions of refugees overnight—a blow that comes on the heels of a financial crash and years of catastrophic droughts—and tips America over the edge into ruin. These nightmarish scenarios are just three of the five possibilities most likely to spark devastating chaos in the United States that are brought to life in The Next Civil War, a chilling and deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction. Drawing upon sophisticated predictive models and nearly two hundred interviews with experts—civil war scholars, military leaders, law enforcement officials, secret service agents, agricultural specialists, environmentalists, war historians, and political scientists—journalist Stephen Marche predicts the terrifying future collapse that so many of us do not want to see unfolding in front of our eyes. Marche has spoken with soldiers and counterinsurgency experts about what it would take to control the population of the United States, and the battle plans for the next civil war have already been drawn up. Not by novelists, but by colonels. No matter your political leaning, most of us can sense that America is barreling toward catastrophe—of one kind or another. Relevant and revelatory, The Next Civil War plainly breaks down the looming threats to America and is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of its people, its land, and its government.
The Presidents War
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Author : Chris DeRose
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-06-06
The Presidents War written by Chris DeRose and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-06 with History categories.
For the first time, readers will experience America’s gravest crisis through the eyes of the five former presidents who lived it. Author and historian Chris DeRose chronicles history’s most epic Presidential Royal Rumble, which culminated in a multi-front effort against Lincoln’s reelection bid, but not before: * John Tyler engaged in shuttle diplomacy between President Buchanan and the new Confederate Government. He chaired the Peace Convention of 1861, the last great hope for a political resolution to the crisis. When it failed, Tyler joined the Virginia Secession Convention, voted to leave the Union, and won election to the Confederate Congress. * Van Buren, who had schemed to deny Lincoln the presidency, supported him in his efforts after Fort Sumter, and thwarted Franklin Pierce's attempt at a meeting of the ex-Presidents to undermine Lincoln. * Millard Fillmore hosted Lincoln and Mary Todd on their way to Washington, initially supported the war effort, offered critical advice to keep Britain at bay, but turned on Lincoln over emancipation. * Franklin Pierce, talked about as a Democratic candidate in 1860 and ’64, was openly hostile to Lincoln and supportive of the South, an outspoken critic of Lincoln especially on civil liberties. After Vicksburg, when Jefferson Davis’s home was raided, a secret correspondence between Pierce and the Confederate President was revealed. * James Buchanan, who had left office as seven states had broken away from the Union, engaged in a frantic attempt to vindicate his administration, in part by tying himself to Lincoln and supporting the war, arguing that his successor had simply followed his policies. How Abraham Lincoln battled against his predecessors to preserve the Union and later to put an end to slavery is a thrilling tale of war waged at the top level of power.
Turning Points Of The American Civil War
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Author : Chris Mackowski
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2018
Turning Points Of The American Civil War written by Chris Mackowski and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
Although most Americans believe that the Battle of Gettysburg was the only turning point of the Civil War, the war actually turned repeatedly. Turning Points of the American Civil War examines key shifts and the context surrounding them, demonstrating that the war was a continuum of watershed events.
The Warfare Of Divided Allegiances Civil War Collection
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Author : Stephen Crane
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2021-04-01
The Warfare Of Divided Allegiances Civil War Collection written by Stephen Crane and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-01 with Fiction categories.
This Madison & Adams edition presents the greatest novels and stories written in the aftermath of the Civil War, trying to show the truth in disguise of fiction, the trauma, the turmoil, the massacre and the heroism of all people involved:_x000D_ Stephen Crane:_x000D_ The Red Badge of Courage_x000D_ The Little Regiment_x000D_ The Veteran_x000D_ The Private History of a Campaign That Failed & A Curious Experience (Mark Twain)_x000D_ Ambrose Bierce:_x000D_ An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge_x000D_ A Horseman in the Sky_x000D_ Chickamauga_x000D_ Joseph A. Altsheler: _x000D_ The Guns of Bull Run_x000D_ The Guns of Shiloh_x000D_ The Scouts of Stonewall_x000D_ The Sword of Antietam_x000D_ The Star of Gettysburg_x000D_ The Rock of Chickamauga_x000D_ The Shades of the Wilderness_x000D_ The Tree of Appomattox_x000D_ The Crisis (Winston Churchill)_x000D_ Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (John William De Forest)_x000D_ With Lee in Virginia (G. A. Henty)_x000D_ Who Would Have Thought It? (María Ruiz de Burton)_x000D_ The Long Roll (Mary Johnston)_x000D_ Cease Firing (Mary Johnston)_x000D_ The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis (Thomas Dixon Jr.)_x000D_ Kincaid's Battery (George Washington Cable)_x000D_ The Border Spy (Harry Hazelton)_x000D_ The Battle Ground (Ellen Glasgow)_x000D_ Who Goes There? (B. K. Benson)_x000D_ Ailsa Paige (Robert W. Chambers)_x000D_ Special Messenger (Robert W. Chambers)_x000D_ How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion (George W. Peck)_x000D_ Raiding with Morgan (Byron A. Dunn)_x000D_ Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins (John Esten Cooke)_x000D_ Brother Against Brother (John R. Musick)_x000D_ The Last Three Soldiers (W. H. Shelton)_x000D_ A War-Time Wooing (Charles King)_x000D_ The Iron Game (Henry F. Keenan)_x000D_ The Blockade Runners (Jules Verne)_x000D_ The Lost Despatch (Natalie Sumner Lincoln)_x000D_ My Lady of the North (Randall Parrish)_x000D_ Uncle Daniel's Story of "Tom" Anderson (John McElroy)_x000D_ The Red Acorn (John McElroy)_x000D_ Winning His Way (Charles Carleton Coffin)_x000D_ A Daughter of the Union (Lucy Foster Madison)_x000D_ Chasing an Iron Horse (Edward Robins)_x000D_ The Man Without a Country (Edward Everett Hale)_x000D_ History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (James Ford Rhodes)
For Cause And Comrades
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Author : James M. McPherson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-04-03
For Cause And Comrades written by James M. McPherson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-03 with History categories.
General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, over and over again, through countless bloody battles and four long, awful years ? Why did the conventional wisdom -- that soldiers become increasingly cynical and disillusioned as war progresses -- not hold true in the Civil War? It is to this question--why did they fight--that James McPherson, America's preeminent Civil War historian, now turns his attention. He shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict. Motivated by duty and honor, and often by religious faith, these men wrote frequently of their firm belief in the cause for which they fought: the principles of liberty, freedom, justice, and patriotism. Soldiers on both sides harkened back to the Founding Fathers, and the ideals of the American Revolution. They fought to defend their country, either the Union--"the best Government ever made"--or the Confederate states, where their very homes and families were under siege. And they fought to defend their honor and manhood. "I should not lik to go home with the name of a couhard," one Massachusetts private wrote, and another private from Ohio said, "My wife would sooner hear of my death than my disgrace." Even after three years of bloody battles, more than half of the Union soldiers reenlisted voluntarily. "While duty calls me here and my country demands my services I should be willing to make the sacrifice," one man wrote to his protesting parents. And another soldier said simply, "I still love my country." McPherson draws on more than 25,000 letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides. Civil War soldiers were among the most literate soldiers in history, and most of them wrote home frequently, as it was the only way for them to keep in touch with homes that many of them had left for the first time in their lives. Significantly, their letters were also uncensored by military authorities, and are uniquely frank in their criticism and detailed in their reports of marches and battles, relations between officers and men, political debates, and morale. For Cause and Comrades lets these soldiers tell their own stories in their own words to create an account that is both deeply moving and far truer than most books on war. Battle Cry of Freedom, McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order." For Cause and Comrades deserves similar accolades, as McPherson's masterful prose and the soldiers' own words combine to create both an important book on an often-overlooked aspect of our bloody Civil War, and a powerfully moving account of the men who fought it.
Mississippi In The Civil War
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Author : Timothy B. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2010-04-08
Mississippi In The Civil War written by Timothy B. Smith and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-08 with History categories.
In Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front, Timothy B. Smith examines Mississippi's Civil War defeat by both outside and inside forces. From without, the 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 the most frightful and extended sieges of the war ended in a crucial Confederate defeat at Vicksburg, the capstone to a tremendous Union campaign. As Confederate forces and Mississippi became overwhelmed militarily, the populace's morale began to crumble. Realizing that the enemy could roll unchecked over the state, civilians, Smith argues, began to lose the will to continue the struggle. Many white Confederates chose to return to the Union rather than see continued destruction in the name of a victory that seemed ever more improbable. When the tide turned, Unionists and African Americans boldly stepped up their endeavors. The result, Smith finds, was a state vanquished and destined to endure suffering far into its future. The first examination of the state's Civil War home front in seventy years, this book tells the story of all classes of Mississippians during the war, focusing new light on previously neglected groups such as women and African Americans. The result is a revelation of the heart of a populace facing the devastating impact of total war.
Civil War Ii
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Author : Nelson O. Ottenhausen
language : en
Publisher: Nelson Ottenhausen
Release Date : 2004-03-29
Civil War Ii written by Nelson O. Ottenhausen and has been published by Nelson Ottenhausen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-29 with Fiction categories.
Madman or Messiah? Will John Butler "Bull" Jackson and The United States People's Constitutional Militia free the nation from a corrupt and immoral government, or start a chaotic civil war? By coercion and bribery of high-ranking government and military officials, the organization infiltrates thousands of recently discharged veterans, sympathetic to the cause, back into strategic military positions. The plan: isolate the nation's Capitol under the guise of martial law, then bring down the President's administration. Right from the outset, things don't go as planned. Six political assassinations, several violent bombings, and the escape of two petty convicts from an Arkansas prison unwittingly cause a chain of events that disrupts Bull Jackson's takeover timetable. Secret Service Agents MacAllister Fox and Roger Cassidy, along with Sheriff Sam Walker of Johnson County, Arkansas, try to track down the elusive Bull Jackson and his followers, but they always seem to remain a step behind.
How To Win At Life By Cheating At Everything
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Author : Mark Perez
language : en
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Release Date : 2017-08-22
How To Win At Life By Cheating At Everything written by Mark Perez and has been published by Dark Horse Comics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-22 with Fiction categories.
A lot of how-to books assume that the reader is a good and wholesome person who wants to follow the law and not rip other people off. This is FOOLISH! Let John D'Hough (not his real name) tell you all about the glorious world of grift, the science of scam, and the craft of criminality as he explains how he was able to fleece the entire town of Honest, Indiana. A bitingly comedic satire, this debut novel from Hollywood screenwriter Mark Perez pulls no punches, and everybody gets his fair share. Featuring a cover and over 100 interior cartoon illustrations from former Flintstones character designer, Scott Shaw!
The Coming Of Cain
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Author : Daniel Rose
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-12-09
The Coming Of Cain written by Daniel Rose and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-09 with Fiction categories.
They say you can't go home again, but Louisa Banks is determined to try. Intent on caring for her brother's two teenagers while he is away in jail, she returns to the family farm in West Virginia. It is a difficult homecoming, made worse by crash and burn memories and self-induced poverty. Still she perseveres, and eventually becomes involved in small town politics and a militant Ganga grower who moonlights as a writer. This explosive combination pushes her to her limits and yet results in self-discovery and a new direction. Hers is a story that boomerangs back on itself and meets the reader head on.