None died in vain: the saga of the American Civil War

✍ Scribed by Leckie, Robert

• Publisher: HarperPerennial
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 992 KB
• Edition: 1st HarperPerennial ed
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, United States, United States.
• ISBN-13: 9780060921163

✦ Synopsis

The story of the American Civil War with profiles of soldiers and political leaders from both sides.;Mexico: the divisive victory -- The crisis of slavery -- Slavery in history and the South -- The house divides -- The rail-splitter -- The first violence: Senator Sumner and John Brown -- The Gulf widens -- The raid on Harpers Ferry -- Brown's trial and execution -- Aftermath: Lincoln's election -- The South secedes -- Jefferson Davis -- The tension mounts -- Davis's cabinet -- Lincoln's inauguration and cabinet -- Lincoln's inauguration and cabinet -- P.G.T. Beauregard -- Fort Sumter -- The north united -- First Bull Run -- Defeat for McDowell and the Union -- The struggle for Missouri: John Charles Frémont -- McClellan takes charge -- The anaconda plan: Ambrose Burnside -- Halleck and Buell -- U.S. Grant -- Movement in the West: the capture of Fort Henry -- Fall of Fort Donelson -- Battle of Pea Ridge -- The Union Generals bicker -- William T. Sherman -- Shiloh -- Billy Yank and Johnny Reb.;The fall of the South's main ports -- Joe Johnston: start of the Peninsula: Union squabbles in the West -- Second Bull Run: the end of Pope -- Longstreet, D.H. Hill, A.P. Hill -- Antietam begins -- Antietam ends: Lee repulsed: slaves freed: McClellan Fired -- Battle of Corinth: Philip Sheridan: Battle of Perryville -- Burnside and Fredericksburg -- Stones River/Murfreesboro -- Joe Hooker -- The two Dans: Butterfield and Sickles -- Kelly's Ford: the funk of fighting Joe -- Chancellorsville: the death of Jackson -- The northern draft riots -- Lee moves North -- George Gordon Meade -- Prelude to Gettysburg -- Gettysburg: the first day -- Gettysburg: the second day -- Gettysburg: the third day -- The siege and Fall of Vicksburg -- Chickamauga and Chattanooga -- The Gettysburg Address -- From the wilderness to Petersburg -- The beginning of the end -- Fort Fisher: Sherman's march -- The end at Appomattox -- Lincoln's assassination -- Honest Abe goes home -- Johnston surrenders: end of the assassins.

✦ Subjects

United States