The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War, 2nd Edition,9781592571321

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War, 2nd Edition

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781592571321
ISBN10: 1592571328
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Pub. Date: 2003-09-02
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Summary

Includes a listing of Civil War re-enactments! A comprehensive overview of America's bloodiest war-from the first shots fired at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Featuring a clear chronology of major events and detailed explanations of key battles, this second edition includes: Instructions on how to trace Civil War ancestry An in-depth look at the weaponry Coverage of the lesser-known but still pivotal battles An expanded glossary and appendixes, and more

Author Biography

Alan Axelrod is the author of over 50 books, including The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to American History, The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Twentieth Century History, and The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to the American Revolution.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Fire-Bell in the Night
1(52)
Beginnings
3(14)
Fort Sumter, South Carolina, April 12, 1861
4(4)
Jamestown, Virginia, August 1619
8(1)
A ``Peculiar Institution''
8(1)
Three-Fifths of a Man
9(1)
Against the American Grain
10(1)
Freedom-Loving Quakers and Enlightened Colonists
11(1)
The Feds Take a Stand
11(1)
A Simple Machine
11(4)
Eli Whitney, Inventor
12(1)
A New Economy
13(1)
A Major Purchase
13(2)
``Title Page to a Great Tragic Volume''
15(2)
Liberty and Union, Now and Forever?
17(12)
The South Says No
18(2)
Calhoun's Theory
18(2)
Jackson Acts
20(1)
The Liberators
20(3)
Genius of Universal Emancipation
21(1)
A Life in Search of Liberation
21(1)
Murder in Virginia
22(1)
Notes from Underground
23(1)
War and Gold
23(6)
Mexican Sunset
24(2)
Gold Rush
26(3)
Descent into War
29(12)
The Tortured Course of Compromise
29(3)
The Compromise of 1850
30(1)
Kansas Bleeds
31(1)
Beyond Compromise
32(3)
The Little Woman Who Made This Great War
32(1)
Dred Verdict
33(2)
Some More Blood: The Raid on Harpers Ferry
35(1)
The Raid Begins
35(1)
Enter Lieutenant Colonel R. E. Lee
35(1)
John Brown's Body
36(1)
The Shattered Party
37(2)
The Union Dissolves
39(2)
Bleak Inaugural
41(12)
``Black'' Lincoln
42(1)
The Wayward Sisters
42(2)
Olive Branches
44(1)
Crittenden Tries
45(1)
Buchanan Acts---More or Less
45(1)
Farewell
45(4)
Dangerous Inaugural Journey
46(2)
Baltimore Transfer
48(1)
Two Failures and a Tariff
49(1)
The Peace Convention Fails
49(1)
Crittenden Fails
49(1)
The Morrill Tariff
50(1)
The ``Essence of Anarchy''
50(3)
Part 2: Rally Round
53(96)
``We'll Manage to Keep House''
55(16)
A Meeting with the President
56(1)
City of Spies
56(3)
But Just Who Were ``They''?
51(7)
A Question of Intelligence---and Counterintelligence
58(1)
A Tale of Two Governments
59(5)
Lincoln and His Cabinet
59(2)
Davis of Mississippi
61(3)
Grim Realities
64(7)
The Arsenal of 1861
64(2)
The Art of War, 1861
66(1)
The Armies
66(1)
Taking Command
66(1)
Worst and Best
67(4)
The Anaconda and a Picnic Party
71(16)
Old Fuss and Feathers
72(2)
The Anaconda Plan
73(1)
War Without Glory
74(1)
Blockade of Chesapeake Bay
74(1)
What the World Thought
74(3)
Dixie Diplomacy
75(1)
The English Question
75
``One War at a Time''
16(61)
States on the Border
77(4)
Civil War in Missouri
77(1)
Carthage and Wilson's Creek
78(1)
Montani Semper Liberi
79(1)
Brawl in Baltimore
79(1)
Habeas Corpus Held Hostage
80(1)
The Battle of Bull Run
81(6)
The Rebel Rose
82(1)
Cheers
83(1)
Like a Stone Wall
84(1)
Pursued by Furies
84(3)
The Young Napoleon and a Man Who Fights: McClellan and Grant
87(16)
A Saddle and Small Victories
88(1)
Philippi
88(1)
Rich Mountain
88(1)
Death Leap
89(1)
A Granny and a Tannery Clerk
90(2)
Lee Retreats from Cheat Mountain
90(1)
Grant Retreats from the Battle of Belmont
91(1)
Hope for the Young Napoleon
92(4)
Little Mac Takes Command
93(1)
Triumph at Fort Donelson
93(3)
Place of Peace
96(7)
Grant's Mistake
97(1)
Carnage at Shiloh
98(1)
Sherman Emerges
98(2)
The Battle of Island 10
100(1)
He Fights
100(3)
Ocean, Valley, and River
103(16)
``What Are You Waiting For, Tardy George?''
104(2)
Flesh and Iron
106(4)
Tweaking the Anaconda
106(1)
A Resurrection
106(1)
Tin Can on a Shingle
107(2)
Duel at Hampton Roads
109(1)
Sails Furled
110(1)
Blue Light in the Valley
110(3)
Retreat at Kernstown
111(1)
Victory at McDowell
111(1)
Front Royal
112(1)
Attack at Winchester
112(1)
Cross Keys
113(1)
Port Republic
113(1)
New Orleans Falls
113(6)
``Beast'' Butler in the Crescent City
115(1)
The ``Woman Order'' and the Will to Fight
115(1)
Hollow Victory
116(3)
Blue, Gray, and Red
119(16)
An Army Without Officers
120(1)
Missouri's Misery
120(5)
Pea Ridge
121(1)
Guerrillas and Young Guns
122(3)
Confederate Arizona
125(3)
Sibley's Invasion
125(1)
The Battle of La Glorietta Pass
126(1)
Arizona Rangers
126(1)
California Column
127(1)
Texas Troubles
127(1)
The Real Conflict
128(7)
The Rage of Cochise
128(1)
A Lost Horse Race
129(1)
Apache Uprising and Navajo War
130(1)
Massacre at Sand Creek
130(1)
``Necessity Knows No Law''
131(4)
Seven Days and Another Bull Run
135(14)
Fair Oaks Prelude
136(1)
Jeb and the Gray Ghost
137(1)
Seven-Day Duel
138(4)
Resistance at Oak Grove
138(1)
Mechanicsville
139(1)
Gaines's Mill
139(1)
Savage's Station
140(1)
Frayser's Farm
141(1)
Malvern Hill
141(1)
Success and Glory; Disaster and Shame
142(3)
Pope Takes Command
142(2)
Slow March to Freedom
144(1)
Second Bull Run
145(1)
Dragon Dix and the Angel of the Battlefield
146(3)
Enter the Nurses
146(1)
Walt Whitman Among the Wounded
147(2)
Part 3: Die to Make Men Free
149(54)
In Blood Proclaimed
151(10)
The Prayer of Twenty Million
152(1)
``Again I Have Been Called Upon to Save the Country''
152(2)
Invasion Plans
153(1)
The Lost Order
154(1)
The Battle of Antietam
154(3)
The Blast of a Thousand Bugles
154(1)
Bloody Lane
155(2)
Slow Road to Emancipation
157(4)
Preliminary Proclamation
158(1)
Forever Free
158(1)
Congress Acts
159(2)
A Worse Place Than Hell
161(14)
A Second Ride Around
162(1)
Popular, Reluctant, Hapless: Burnside
163(4)
Slaughter at Fredericksburg
164(2)
A Chicken Could Not Live
166(1)
``I Am Responsible''
167(1)
``Heartfelt Sympathies . . . Earnest Prayers''
167(4)
Modern Weapons, Medieval Medicine
168(1)
Mary Edwards Walker, M.D.
168(2)
Shoddy Goods: A Soldier's Life
170(1)
The Mud March
171(1)
Give Us Victories
171(4)
Fighting Joe
172(1)
Camp Followers
173(1)
Of Cavalry and Balloons
173(1)
``The Finest Army on the Planet''
174(1)
Bread and Bullets
175(16)
``Bread! Bread!''
176(3)
Paper War
177(1)
The Draft and Desertion
178(1)
Diary of a Southern Lady
179(1)
War News
179(2)
Journalists and Artists
179(1)
The Photographers
180(1)
Foreign Affairs
181(1)
Old Kentucky Home
182(3)
Friendly Advice
183(1)
Curtain Down: Iuka, Corinth, Perryville
184(1)
Assault at Vicksburg
185(6)
Holly Springs and Chickasaw Bluffs
185(1)
Try, Try Again
186(2)
Victory, Slow and Bold
188(1)
Total War
188(3)
Thunderstorm from a Cloudless Sky
191(12)
``May God Have Mercy on General Lee . . .''
192(5)
Hooker's Plan
192(1)
Outgeneraled on a Cracker Barrel
193(2)
Lee's Masterpiece
195(1)
``. . . And Rest Under the Shade of the Trees''
195(1)
``What Will the Country Say?''
196(1)
Lee's Bold Offensive
197(6)
Lee Heads Northward
197(2)
Brandy Station
199(1)
Disaster at Winchester
199(1)
Crossing the Potomac
200(1)
Stuart's Raid
200(1)
Surprise!
201(1)
A Used Up Man
201(2)
Part 4: That the Nation Might Live
203(46)
Gettysburg
205(16)
Legend of the Shoes
206(1)
Of ``Gods and Generals''
207(1)
Day One: July 1, 1863
208(3)
The High Ground
209(1)
Retreat to a Cemetery
210(1)
``If I Had Stonewall Jackson . . .''
211(1)
Day Two: Union Holds the High Ground
211(5)
Longstreet Advises
212(1)
The Fishhook
212(1)
Quick, Bold, Cheerful, and Hopeful
212(1)
Temporary Insanity
213(1)
The Professor
214(1)
Devil's Den, Peach Orchard, and Wheatfield
215(1)
Day Three: Massive Assault
216(2)
Longstreet Advises Again
216(1)
Pickett's Charge
216(1)
``A Sob---A Gasp''
217(1)
Never Forget
218(3)
``My God, Is That All?''
218(1)
These Honored Dead
219(1)
Gettysburg: Impact and Heritage
220(1)
``Not for Uncle Sambo''
221(14)
The Draft Riots
222(3)
Racial Rage
222(1)
A Ragged, Coatless Army
223(1)
Northern Rebellion?
224(1)
Copperheads: Snakes in the Grass?
225(2)
Knights and Castles: Secret Societies
225(1)
A Man Named Vallandigham
226(1)
The Great Northwest Conspiracy
227(2)
Morgan Rides and Raids
227(1)
Another Riot
228(1)
The Northern Revolt Sputters and Dies
229(1)
Glory
229(6)
Corps d'Afrique
230(1)
Congress Acts
231(1)
Muskets or Shovels?
232(1)
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment
233(2)
From Chickamauga Mud to a Battle Above the Clouds
235(14)
By the Book
236(1)
``Old Rosy'' Gets a Kick in the Pants
236(2)
Counterattack at Chickamauga
238(4)
In the Thick of It
239(1)
A ``Gap'' That Wasn't
240(2)
Rock of Chickamauga
242(1)
The Good Dog
242(3)
Yankees Under Siege
243(1)
Cracker Line
244(1)
A Visit from the President
244(1)
A Battle Above the Clouds and a Soldier's Battle
245(2)
Fighting Joe
246(1)
Sherman
246(1)
``You Scaled the Mountain!''
246(1)
Sunset in the West
247(2)
Part 5: The Last Full Measure
249(86)
Mr. Lincoln's General
251(14)
He Fights
252(4)
Grant's Will
253(1)
Grant's Strategy
254(1)
A New Army of Veterans
254(2)
``And Fightin' Means Killin'''
256(3)
A Tale of Two Generals
256(2)
The Fort Pillow Massacre
258(1)
Prisoners of War
259(6)
Exchange and Parole
259(1)
Grant's Grim Decision
260(1)
Andersonville and Other Horrors
261(4)
The Butcher
265(14)
Lee's Hope
266(1)
Lost in the Wilderness
266(6)
Two Days and 17,666 Men
267(1)
Spotsylvania
268(2)
Yellow Tavern
270(1)
The Mule Shoe
271(1)
Sigel Struggles, Butler Beaten
272(1)
``To Fight It Out on This Line''
273(6)
Cold Harbor
273(1)
Petersburg
274(2)
The Crater Catastrophe
276(1)
Another New Kind of War
277(2)
Damn the Torpedoes
279(14)
Pirate Navy
280(5)
From Enrica to Alabama
281(1)
Adventures of the Alabama
282(1)
Duel at Sea
283(2)
The Alabama Claims
285(1)
Impatient Admiral
285(1)
Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864: 6:00 a.m.
286(1)
Tecumseh Sinks
286(1)
Tennessee Strikes Her Colors
286(1)
Silent Service
287(3)
A Man Named Hunley
288(1)
Anatomy of a Submarine
288(1)
Brave Men, Doomed Men
289(1)
Death of the Housatonic
289(1)
Welcome Victory
290(3)
Lincoln versus McClellan
290(1)
Sherman Enters Georgia
291(2)
``I Almost Tremble''
293(14)
The Atlanta Campaign
294(8)
Sherman at Dalton
295(1)
Counterattack at Cassville
296(1)
Assault at Kennesaw Mountain
297(1)
Hood Succeeds Johnston
298(1)
``War Is Cruelty''
298(4)
Fiery March to the Sea
302(1)
Hood's Gamble
302(1)
Who Burned Atlanta?
303(1)
Franklin and Nashville
304(1)
A Gift for His President
304(1)
Columbia Burns
305(1)
The Stars and Stripes over Sumter
305(2)
On to Richmond!
307(16)
Menace in the Shenandoah Valley
308(2)
Early's Raid
308(1)
Sheridan the Ruthless
309(1)
``Kilcavalry'' Raids Richmond
310(1)
Of Terror and Greek Fire
311(3)
The St. Albans Raid
312(1)
The Fires of New York
312(2)
``With Malice Toward None''
314(1)
Breakout from Petersburg
315(3)
Diplomacy and Politics
316(1)
``Wake Up. We Are Coming''
316(1)
Fort Stedman Taken...
317(1)
. . . And Lost
317(1)
Five Forks
318(1)
Evacuation
319(1)
The Nightmare Gone
320(3)
Appomattox Ending
323(12)
Pursuit
324(3)
Namozine Church
324(1)
Amelia Springs
325(1)
Sayler's Creek
325(1)
High Bridge and Farmville
326(1)
Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House
327(1)
``I Had Rather Die a Thousand Deaths''
327(4)
Like a Wraith of Morning Mist
328(1)
In the McLean House
329(2)
Coda
331(4)
Part 6: Taps and Reveille
335(78)
Malice Toward One
337(16)
An Evening at Ford's Theatre
338(4)
Matinee Idol
338(2)
Still Waters Run Deep
340(1)
``Sic Semper Tyrannis!''
341(1)
Death Watch
342(2)
April 15, 1865, 7:22 A.M.
342(1)
``Useless, Useless''
343(1)
Accomplices All
343(1)
Odor of Conspiracy
344(3)
``Lieutenant, We Have Got a Sure Thing''
345(1)
That Scoundrel Baker
345(1)
The Very Highest Levels
346(1)
Reconstruction Without Lincoln
347(2)
The New President: A Tailor by Trade
347(1)
``I'm Ready''
348(1)
Wade-Davis Plan
349(1)
Congress Acts
349(4)
Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights
350(1)
Fourteenth Amendment
350(1)
Military Government
351(2)
War Without End
353(10)
Articles of Impeachment
354(1)
Reconstruction---or Deconstruction
355(1)
Political Agenda
355(1)
Carpetbaggers
356(1)
Scalawags
356(1)
Forrest and the KKK
356(1)
The Elevation of ``His Fraudulency''
357(2)
Separate and Unequal
359(4)
The Cotton States
359(1)
Lynch Law
360(1)
From the Back of the Bus
361(2)
Memory
363(50)
From Killing Fields to Subdivisions
364(2)
Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind
364(1)
Defending the Flag
365(1)
The Historians
366(2)
The Presence of the Past
367(1)
Civil War Archaeology
367(1)
The Enthusiasts
368(3)
Do-It-Yourself Scholarship: The Sources
368(2)
A Confederate (or Yankee) in the Attic
370(1)
Reenactors and Reenactments
371(1)
Yesterday Everyday
371(2)
Civil War Lit
372(1)
Hollywood Battlefield
372(1)
One Nation, Indivisible
373(2)
Appendixes
A Words of War
375(10)
B Who Was Who in the Civil War
385(12)
C Major Civil War Sites and Sights
397(6)
D Civil War Weapons
403(4)
E A Civil War Library
407(6)
Index 413

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