This mighty scourge : perspectives on the Civil War

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This mighty scourge : perspectives on the Civil War

James M. McPherson

Oxford University Press, 2007

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Includes index

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In the same tradition as Lincoln and the Second American Revolution and Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the Civil War, Pulitzer-prize winner James M. McPherson has gathered an illuminating collection of essays that reflect his latest thinking on the Civil War. Filled with new interpretations and fresh scholarship, these essays address many of the most enduring questions and provocative debates about the Civil War. In some, McPherson distills the wisdom of many years of teaching and writing about the meaning of the war and about slavery and its abolition. In others, he makes use of primary research that breaks new ground on such topics as Confederate military strategy, foreign views of the war, soldiers and the press, the failure of peace negotiations to end the war, and Southern efforts to shape a heroic memory of the war. The selection will include several never-before-published essays, including one on General Robert E. Lee's goals in the Gettysburg campaign, and another on Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief. The book also features a typescript of McPherson's 2000 National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecture about Lincoln's legacy that has never been published in its complete form. As a whole, these essays provide a rich interpretive history of the Civil War and its meaning for America - indeed for the world.

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Preface Acknowledgments I. Slavery and the Coming of War 1. And the War Came 2. Escape and Revolt in Black and White II. The Lost Cause Revisited 3. The Confederacy: A House Divided? 4. Was the Best Defense a Good Offense? Jefferson Davis and Confederate Strategies 5. The Saratoga That Wasn't: The Impact of Antietam Abroad 6. To Conquer a Peace? Lee's Goals in the Gettysburg Campaign 7. The Last Rebel: Jesse James 8. Long-Legged Yankee Lies: The Lost Cause Textbook Crusade III. Architects of Victory 9. "We Stand by Each Other Always": Grant and Sherman 10. The Hard Hand of War 11. Unvexed to the Sea: Lincoln, Grant, and the Vicksburg Campaign IV. Home Front and Battle Front 12. Brahmins at War 13. "Spend Much Time in Reading the Daily Papers": The Press and Army Morale in the Civil War 14. No Peace Without Victory, 1861-1865 V. Lincoln 15. To Remember That He Had Lived 16. "As Commander-in-Chief I Have a Right to Take Any Measure Which May Best Subdue the Enemy" Notes Index

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