| Author |
Axelrod, Alan, 1952- author.
|
| Publication |
New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, 2017.
|
| Description |
pages cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: for the sake of argument and understanding -- May 22, 1856: the gentleman from South Carolina canes the gentleman from Massachusetts -- March 4, 1861: "Black Lincoln" is inaugurated -- April 12, 1861: General Beauregard opens fire on Fort Sumter -- September 22, 1862: Lincoln issues the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation -- April 9, 1865: Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia -- November 19, 1863: two minutes at Gettysburg -- November 4, 1864: Lincoln wins reelection -- July 13, 1863: New York draft rioters set fire to the Orphan Asylum for Colored Children -- April 14, 1865: John Wilkes Booth assassinates Abraham Lincoln -- July 21, 1861: the rebels win at Bull Run -- June 1, 1862: Lee rises to top command in theConfederacy -- July 4, 1863: Vicksburg falls to Grant -- May 7, 1864: defeated, Grant advances -- April 8, 1862: Shiloh creates a new American reality -- May 20, 1862: Congress passes the Homestead Act of 1862 -- May 2, 1863: Stonewall Jackson falls to friendly fire at Chancellorsville -- November 7, 1862: Lincoln chooses Burnside to lead the Army of the Potomac -- August 28-30, 1862: Lee divides and conquers at the Second Battle of Bull Run -- October 16-18, 1859: John Brown raids Harpers Ferry -- March8, 1862: the ironclads clash at Hampton Road -- Lest we forget: the 20 most significant Civil War books. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
|
| Alt Title |
Twenty most significant events of the Civil War |
| ISBN |
9781510715202 |
|
1510715207 |
|
