Contributor
Stephens, John Richard, compiler of edition.
Imprint:Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, [2013]
Descriptionxv, 320 pages : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Note:Includes index.
Note:A Note on the Texts; Introduction: The Rising Storm; The War Begins; Overview; Custer: Thoughts of War from West Point; Sherman: From New Orleans to Washington, D.C.; Early: Virginia Secedes; Lee : Lee Resigns His Commission; Pickett: The Journey to Richmond; The Battle of Fort Sumter; Overview; Porter: Fort Sumter vs Fort Pickens; Side Box: Lincoln's War Room; Beauregard: The Bombardment of Fort Sumter; The First Battle of Manassas (First Bull Run); Overview; Custer: Custer's First Two Days on Duty; Beauregard: The Confederate Battle Plan. Jackson : Turning the Tide; Sherman: Confusion among the Federals; Side Box: Friendly Fire; Beauregard: Analysis of the Battle; Johnston: The Impossibility of Invading Washington, D.C.; Longstreet: Mistakes and What Could Have Been; Johnston and Beauregard: A "Glorious Victory"; The Battle of Shiloh; Overview; Grant: Fighting with Raw Recruits; Side Box: Military Intelligence; Sherman: The Extreme Fury of Battle; Beauregard: Striking a Sudden Blow; Bragg: "Our Condition Is Horrible"; Forrest: "Recruits Wanted"; The Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg); Overview; Longstreet: The Invasion of Maryland. McClellan: Rushing to Defend the NorthSide Box: Aerial Reconnaissance; Hood: "The Hardest Fought Battle"; Early: Fighting at the Dunkard Church; Longstreet: Holding the Line with Two Cannons; Lee : Stragglers; Meade: Battlefield Promotion; Hooker: "A Great Battle Has Been Fought"; McClellan: "A Masterpiece of Art"; Longstreet: What Might Have Been; The Battle of Fredericksburg; Overview; Longstreet: Preparation for Battle; Hooker: Planning the Attack; Lee: The Union Army Enters the Town; Side Box: Sharpshooters; Hood: Discussions with Lee and Stonewall Jackson; Meade: "I Should Have Been the Great Hero"; Jackson: The Attack Had to Be Abandoned; Longstreet: Defending Marye's Heights; Hancock: Assaulting Marye's Heights; Hooker: Yet Another Futile Assault; Longstreet: Further Attacks on Marye's Heights; Lee: Trying to Determine the Union's Intentions; Burnside: Explaining the Defeat; Longstreet: What Burnside Should Have Done; Lee: Victory; The Battle of Chancellorsville; Overview; Lee: The Perfect Battle; Early : Stonewall Jackson Is Shot; Side Box: Surgery and Medicine; Hooker: The Problem with Chancellorsville; Meade: "I Am Sorry for Hooker."; Hancock: "The Wheel of Fortune"; The Siege of Vicksburg; Overview; Johnston: Lost Opportunities; Porter: Running the Gauntlet; Side Box: Ironclads and Submarines; Grant : Assault or Siege; Sherman: McClernand and the Second Assault; Grant: Forcing a Surrender; The Battle of Gettysburg; Overview; Longstreet: General Longstreet's Spy; Side Box: Espionage; Hancock: The First Day of Battle; Chamberlain: "Hold That Ground at All Hazards"; Hood: General Lee's Orders; Stuart: A Cavalry Battle; Custer: A Brilliant Charge; Longstreet: From Seminary Ridge to Cemetery Ridge; Hancock: Pickett's Charge; Meade: Not bagging the Confederate Army; Longstreet: Taking the blame; Lee: Dealing with the loss; The Battle of Chickamauga; Overview; Hood: Wounded; Sheridan: The Grit to hold the field; Polk: Appeal to the President; Forrest: "A Damned Scoundrel"; Longstreet: Entering a Hornets' nest; Bragg: The other side of the story; Rosecrans: "The Battle roared with increasing fury"; Side box: Rebel yell, Yankee cheer; Grant: "Rosecrans was badly defeated"; The Battle of the Crater (at Petersburg); Overview; Chamberlain: The long delay; Sidebox: Trench warfare; Grant: Plan of attack; Meade: A most unfortunate operation; Burnside: The order to withdraw; Grant: "The saddest affair I have witnessed"; Hancock: Court of Inquiry; Sherman's March to the sea; Overview; Sherman: "Making Georgia howl"; Grant: General Johnston, General Hood; Sherman: a "Wild Adventure"; Beauregard: Trying to stop Sherman; Sherman: Journey to the sea; Sidebox: innovative weapons; Grant: "Cruelty and severity"; The Battle of Appomattox Court House; Overview; Grant: Prepartions with Sheridan; Sheridan: A white flag; Longstreet: Waiting for Grant; Side box: Guerrillas; Grant: The surrender; Chamberlain: "Morning Dawned"; Grant: Assassination; The War Ends; Overview; Lee: Farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia; Forrest: Your final orders; Pickett: Visiting old friends; Longstreet: History written in blood; Beauregard: How we could have won; Grant: Failure of the reconstruction; Forrest: Forrest's Civil Rights speech; Pickett: Remembering the dead at Gettysburg; Hancock: Looking back on the storm; Roll call; Conclusion: the storm clouds begin to clear.
