The Civil War: Fort Sumter to Perryvilleby Shelby Foote | |
| Category: |
"U.S. History - Military" |
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| Pages: | 810 |
| Year of Publication: | 1958 |
| Date Read: | 03/02/1990 |
| Notes: | This volume — the first of three — opens with Jefferson Davis' resignation from the United States Senate and Abraham Lincoln's departure from Springfield for the national capital: and these two leaders, whose lives continually touch on the great chain of events throughout the story, are only the first of scores of exciting personalities which make this a mulitple biography set against the crisis of an age. All the great battles are here, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days, Second Manassas to Antietam and Perryville in the fall of 1862; but so are the smaller and often equally important engagements on both land and sea: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, Monitor versus Merrimac, and Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign — to mention only a few. |
| My Rating: | 10 |