Turning Points of the Civil War (Second Edition)

by James A. Rawley

Book Overview

James A. Rawley examines the seven turning points of the Civil War: the course of the slaveholding borderland in 1861, First Bull Run, the Trent affair, Antietam, the Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg and Vicksburg, and the presidential election of 1864. Among the topic unifying his book are slavery, democracy, British policy, military organization and progress, and the roles of Lincoln, McClellan, Davis, and Lee. The afterword looks at the Civil...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803289359
• ISBN13: 9780803289352
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"