Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 6

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Peter Cozzens Klappentext Sifting carefully through reports from newspapers! magazines! personal memoirs! and letters! Peter Cozzens' Volume 6 brings readers more of the best first-person accounts of marches! encampments! skirmishes! and full-blown battles! as seen by participants on both sides of the conflict. Alongside the experiences of lower-ranking officers and enlisted men are accounts from key personalities including General John Gibbon! General John C. Lee! and seven prominent generals from both sides offering views on "why the Confederacy failed." This volume includes one hundred and twenty illustrations! including sixteen previously uncollected maps of battlefields! troop movements! and fortifications. Zusammenfassung Sifting through reports from newspapers! magazines! personal memoirs! and letters! this work brings readers the first-person accounts of marches! encampments! skirmishes! and full-blown battles! as seen by participants on both sides of the civil war. It features illustrations! including maps of battlefields! troop movements! and fortifications.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Cozzens, Peter (EDT) Cozzens
• Assisted by: Peter Cozzens (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2007
• EAN: 9780252074516
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07451-6
• No. of pages: 632
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 229 mm x 44 mm
• Series: Battles & Leaders of the Civil; Battles & Leaders of the Civil
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (1850 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, History - Military / War, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States