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Genre/Form: | Anecdotes History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Webb Garrison, Jr. |
ISBN: | 0884864308 9780884864301 |
OCLC Number: | 294861025 |
Notes: | Originally published, Nashville, Tenn. : Cumberland House Publishing, ©2001. |
Description: | ix, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Part 1 : Ships versus shore. Port Royal : brothers did fight brothers -- Drewry's Bluff : ironclads thwarted by their own limitations -- Fort Fisher : when Butler failed to fight -- Sabine Pass : against terrific odds -- Part 2 : War on the water. The CSS Albemarle : a dose of rebel medicine -- Alabama versus Hatteras : a thirteen-minute victory -- The Hunley and the Housatonic : death to the victor -- Hampton Roads : the battle that couldn't be won -- Part 3 : Cover-ups and blame shifting. Cold Harbor : Grant's worst blunder -- Second Manassas : Porter becomes the scapegoat -- Ball's Bluff : a complete muddle of an example -- Part 4 : Unexpected events. First Bull Run : the beginning of a war -- Missionary Ridge : a suicidal attack without orders -- Cheat Mountain : Lee's first campaign -- Iuka : the silent battle -- Honey Hill : Georgia militia victorious in South Carolina -- Part 5 : Major blunders. Bethel Church : the first "battle" -- Streight's raid : never send a mule to do a horse's job -- Shiloh : a reversal of fortune -- Malvern Hill : the ambiguous order -- The crater : a tragedy of errors -- Franklin : how a general destroyed his own army -- Fort Stedman : "God did not intend that we should succeed". |
Responsibility: | Webb Garrison, Jr. |
Abstract:
This is a survey of twenty-three battles of the American Civil War.
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