Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by McPherson, James M.Edition: Revised
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1989-01-01
Publisher(s): Ballantine Books
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Summary
The esteemed, Pulitzer Prize-Winning history of the Civil War that brings to vivid life, the generals, the presidents, the soldiers, politicians, Abolitionists, Southern fire-eaters, Northern barn-burners, Copperheads, and Know-Nothings. An instant classic, this is the single volume on the tragic war and its background that every historian--amateur or trained--will want to have on the shelf to read again and again.
Table of Contents
| Editor's Introduction | p. xvii |
| Prologue: From the Halls of Montezuma | p. 3 |
| The United States at Midcentury | p. 6 |
| Mexico Will Poison Us | p. 47 |
| An Empire for Slavery | p. 78 |
| Slavery, Rum, and Romanism | p. 117 |
| The Crime Against Kansas | p. 145 |
| Mudsills and Greasy Mechanics for A. Lincoln | p. 170 |
| The Revolution of 1860 | p. 202 |
| The Counterrevolution of 1861 | p. 234 |
| Facing Both Ways: The Upper South's Dilemma | p. 276 |
| Amateurs Go to War | p. 308 |
| Farewell to the Ninety Days' War | p. 339 |
| Blockade and Beachhead: The Salt-Water War, 1861-1862 | p. 369 |
| The River War in 1862 | p. 392 |
| The Sinews of War | p. 428 |
| Billy Yank's Chickahominy Blues | p. 454 |
| We Must Free the Slaves or Be Ourselves Subdued | p. 490 |
| Carry Me Back to Old Virginny | p. 511 |
| John Bull's Virginia Reel | p. 546 |
| Three Rivers in Winter, 1862-1863 | p. 568 |
| Fire in the Rear | p. 591 |
| Long Remember: The Summer of '63 | p. 626 |
| Johnny Reb's Chattanooga Blues | p. 666 |
| When This Cruel War Is Over | p. 689 |
| If It Takes All Summer | p. 718 |
| After Four Years of Failure | p. 751 |
| We Are Going To Be Wiped Off the Earth | p. 774 |
| South Carolina Must Be Destroyed | p. 807 |
| We Are All Americans | p. 831 |
| Epilogue: To the Shoals of Victory | p. 853 |
| Abbreviated Titles | p. 863 |
| Bibliographic Note | p. 865 |
| Index | p. 883 |
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