Military history

The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America, not only in waking hours but also in the dark of night.

Few issues created greater consensus among Civil Warera northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason.

The struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvanias Mule Shoe was without parallel during the Civil War.

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The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi.

The last days of fighting in the Civil Wars eastern theater have been wrapped in mythology since the moment of Lees surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House.

From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule.

Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict.

Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox.

The purpose of this study was to discover what was typical in the history and character of the state during the period of the Civil War and the readjustment that followed.

In this thoroughly researched documentation of a historically controversial issue, the author considers the background, passage, and constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law.

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Numerous letters and films were sent to his sister Julie in California via a coffee can to which he drew upon to write an account of his experiences.

It is well documented that relations between the Allies and the Soviet Union were deteriorating from 1943.

This volume makes available a fascinating narrative and a document of singular importance to the study of the Civil War.

This first study to discuss the important ideological role of the military in the early political life of the nation examines the relationship between revolutionary doctrine and the practical considerations of military planning before and after the American Revolution.

Despite its important role in the early years of the Civil War, the Army of the Ohio remains one of the least studied of all Union commands.

The Richmond campaign of AprilJuly 1862 ranks as one of the most important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War.

In the quarter century after the founding of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formidable foes, France and the United States.

Michael Ballard provides a concise yet thorough study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial river port and rail depot for the South and split the Confederate nation, providing a turning point in the Civil War.

Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died.

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The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history.

In 1942, Bill Manbo (19081992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming.

Conner explains the background, organization, and workings of the National War Labor Board, created by President Wilson in April 1918.

The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade was one of North Carolinas best-known and most successful units during the Civil War.

In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to the Union.

Incorporating archeology, anthropology, cartography, and Indigenous studies into military history, Wayne E.

The battle of Cowpens was a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War in the South and stands as perhaps the finest American tactical demonstration of the entire war.

As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record.

While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T.

Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War.

After Japans attack on Pearl Harbor, leaders in China and the United States had high hopes of a lasting partnership between the two countries.

In December 1885, under the watchful eye of Mark Twain, the publishing firm of Charles L.

In the Peninsula Campaign of spring 1862, Union general George B.

Generally regarded as the most important of the Civil War campaigns conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, that of 1864 lasted more than four months and claimed more than 25,000 casualties.

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Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards, and stereographs.

A variety of important but lesser-known dimensions of the Chancellorsville campaign of spring 1863 are explored in this collection of eight original essays.

Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lt.

The Army of Northern Virginias chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House.

By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best-qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end.

In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly A.

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This volume explores the Shenandoah Valley campaign, best known for its role in establishing Thomas J.

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"e;The volume's narrative content is enhanced and supplemented by an event timeline, B&W period photographs, modern color photography, profiles of key generals, color maps of various kinds, and topical sidebars.

The battle of Cowpens was a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War in the South and stands as perhaps the finest American tactical demonstration of the entire war.

The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 initiated a heated debate throughout the South about what Republican control of the federal government would mean for the slaveholding states.