The Road to Appomattox
Title | The Road to Appomattox PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hendrickson |
Publisher | Thorndike Press |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780783893723 |
A description of the military operations of the Civil War includes analyses of the leadership and strategies of both sides of the conflict.
Road To Appomattox
Title | Road To Appomattox PDF eBook |
Author | Bell Irvin Wiley |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 1994-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807119112 |
Originally published forty years ago, Bell Irvin Wiley’s The Road to Appomattox marked one of the first efforts by a Civil War scholar to identify the internal causes of the South’s defeat. Today this elegant little book remains one of the most penetrating, thought-provoking works on the subject. In the book’s three chapters, Wiley treats three broad reasons for the failure of the Confederacy: weak political leadership, low morale among the populace, and four “internal influences” in the South. Those four shortcomings stemmed from traits apparently endemic to southerners in general, Wiley explains, and they included disharmony among and between political and military leaders; the government’s failure to provide adequate public information systems; rigidity in outlook and course of action; and poor judgment, especially of the North’s strength, the South’s own strength, and Europe’s dependence on cotton. Recent years have witnessed a number of significant studies dealing with Confederate defeat, particularly with the failings of Davis as war leader and with the complex issue of the South’s dedication to the cause. Wiley was one of the first historians to raise these issues and discuss them trenchantly. Those familiar with The Road to Appomattox will cheer the reissue of this resonant work; first-time readers will see why.
A Stillness at Appomattox
Title | A Stillness at Appomattox PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Catton |
Publisher | Anchor |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 1990-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0385044518 |
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • America's foremost Civil War historian recounts the final year of the Civil War in his final volume of the Army of the Potomac Trilogy. Bruce Catton takes the reader through the battles of the Wilderness, the Bloody Angle, Cold Harbot, the Crater, and on through the horrible months to one moment at Appomattox. Grant, Meade, Sheridan, and Lee vividly come to life in all their failings and triumphs.
The Road to Appomattox
Title | The Road to Appomattox PDF eBook |
Author | Bell Irvin Wiley |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 121 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Confederate States of America |
ISBN |
The Road to Appomattox
Title | The Road to Appomattox PDF eBook |
Author | C. Carter Smith |
Publisher | Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | 102 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781562942649 |
Uses contemporary pictures and maps in presenting the story of the trappers, miners, ranchers, and farmers who turned a huge wilderness into the breadbasket of the world
Ulysses S. Grant and the Road to Appomattox
Title | Ulysses S. Grant and the Road to Appomattox PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Sapp |
Publisher | Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
Total Pages | 68 |
Release | 2005-12-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780836864311 |
Highlights the life and details the military career of Ulysses S. Grant, General of the Union Army during the Civil War and eighteenth president of the United States.
Road to Appomattox
Title | Road to Appomattox PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hendrickson |
Publisher | Castle Books, Incorporated |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780785820598 |
The story of how the North finally defeated the South in the Civil War, using vivid descriptions, the words of actual participants, and helpful photos and illustrations.