The Handy Civil War Answer Book

Samuel Willard Crompton

Description

From the biggest events and battles to the lesser-known warriors and women, a captivating, concise, and convenient guide to America’s defining conflict, its origins, key battles, people, events, and aftermath.

The nation’s highest-casualty, bloodiest-war is still discussed, studied, acted out, and politically relevant. From the complex, turbulent and difficult events leading to the war, through the first shots fired at Fort Sumter, the military strategies, battles, and people, and from Lee’s surrender at Appomattox to the Southern reconstruction and modern aftermath, The Handy Civil War Answer Book answers more than 900 questions, from the most widely asked to the more obscure, such as ...

How did the Mexican War influence Americans of the 1850s?

What was Robert E. Lee’s connection to George Washington?

What did people mean when they said Lincoln had the style of a buffoon and the “brain of a giant”?

What is nullification? What is secession? How closely are they linked?

What was so important about the Homestead Act?

How did what happened at Harpers Ferry contribute to what would become the Civil War?

What all-black regiment famously led the charge at Battery Wagner?

Was there any precedent for the Siege of Vicksburg?

Would North and South have been reconciled if Lincoln had not been assassinated?

What became of Generals Grant and Lee after the war?

How do Americans continue to commemorate the Civil War?

Blending historical review with a little surprising trivia into an engaging question-and-answer format, The Handy Civil War Answer Book is perfect for browsing and is ideal for the serious military or history buff, students, teachers, and anyone interested in a better understanding of our nation's past—and present. Photos, battlefield maps, and a chronology of major events contribute to the understanding of the War between the States in this tome is richly illustrated. Its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness.

Sujets

• Civil War Period
• Histoire
• George Brinton McClellan
• Confederación de Sistemas Independientes
• Chattanooga Campaign
• Emancipation
• Army of the Cumberland
• Battle of Missionary Ridge
• Army of Tennessee
• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of Lookout Mountain
• Siege of Vicksburg
• Army of the Potomac
• Confederacy
• Battle of Chickamauga
• Battle of Shiloh
• George B. McClellan
• Battle of Antietam
• William H. Seward
• Army of Northern Virginia
• Battle of the Wilderness
• Battle of Fredericksburg
• Battle of Chancellorsville
• United States presidential election, 1860
• Stonewall Jackson
• Robert E. Lee
• J.E.B. Stuart
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Ambrose Burnside
• Armée du Cumberland
• Joseph Hooker
• United States
• Gettysburg Address
• Joseph E. Johnston
• James Longstreet
• Armée du Tennessee (Confédérée)
• Braxton Bragg
• History
• John Bell Hood
• Mary Todd Lincoln
• William Henry Seward
• George McClellan
• John Wilkes Booth
• Fort Sumter
• Thomas Jonathan Jackson
• Frederick Douglass
• Jefferson Davis
• Winfield Scott
• William Tecumseh Sherman
• Robert Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

Informations

• Publié par: Visible Ink Press
• Date de parution: 21 avril 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781578595181
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

About the Author


Sam Crompton, holding a powder horn, poses by the Soldier s Memorial in Northampton, Massachusetts. ( Photo: Dieu Etinde )
Samuel Willard Crompton teaches history at Holyoke Community College in Massachusetts. He is the author or editor of many books, including one on Ulysses S. Grant.
Crompton studied The Civil War in Trans-National Perspective at a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar, and has contributed many individual articles to the American National Biography . He lives in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, where he sometimes takes walks that lead to the white stone by the side of a country road that announces this was the birthplace of Fighting Joe Hooker.
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THE HANDY CIVIL WAR ANSWER BOOK
THE HANDY CIVIL WAR ANSWER BOOK
Copyright 2014 by Visible Ink Press
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Cover images: Portrait of General Robert E. Lee, portrait of Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, print depicting Battle of Gettysburg, and rebel fortifications in Atlanta, Georgia, all Library of Congress.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication Data
Crompton, Samuel Willard.
The handy Civil War answer book / Samuel Willard Crompton.
pages cm. - (The handy answer book series)
ISBN 978-1-57859-476-4 (pbk.)
1. United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Miscellanea. I. Title.
E468.C93 2014
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2013044594
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Contents

A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
P HOTO C REDITS
I NTRODUCTION
AMERICA IN THE 1850s
1850
Slavery and Sectional Animosity
The Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom s Cabin
1854
1855 through 1858 and John Brown
The Emergence of John Brown
The Dred Scott Decision and Its Impact
The Supreme Court Decides
Abraham Lincoln Appears on the Scene
John Brown and Harpers Ferry
LINCOLN S ELECTION, SOUTHERN SECESSION: 1860 TO APRIL 1861
John Brown s Failure
John Brown s Martyrdom
1860
Secession
Lincoln s Journey, Davis Speech
THE FIRST BATTLES: APRIL 1861 TO FEBRUARY 1862
Fort Sumter
Flag Fever
One Special Young Man
Bull Run
Movements in the West
International Events
ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1862
Unconditional Surrender U. S. Grant
McClellan s Command
Battle of Shiloh
Battle for New Orleans
Appearance of Robert E. Lee
Lincoln versus Horace Greeley
FROM ANTIETAM TO CHANCELLORSVILLE: SEPTEMBER 1862 TO MAY 1863
McClellan in Charge
Battle of Antietam
The Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battles for the West
Fighting Joe Hooker
THE HOME FRONT: 1861 TO 1865
Women s Roles
Parents Roles
Southern Diarists
Walt and the Other Whitmans
Fathers and Sons: Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Price of Things
The Military Draft
Children in Wartime
A British Traveler
MIDPOINT OF THE WAR: MAY TO JULY 1863
Small Towns in a Big War
The Army of Northern Virginia Moves North
Gettysburg: The First Day
Gettysburg: The Second Day
Gettysburg: The Third Day
Verdict of the Newspapers
THE FIGHT FOR TENNESSEE: JULY 1863 TO JANUARY 1864
Battle of Chickamauga
Siege of Chattanooga
Battle of Lookout Mountain
Battle of Missionary Ridge
Siege of Knoxville
Gettysburg Address
TOTAL WAR: MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1864
The Man of the Hour
Lee on the Defensive
Death of a Cavalier
Disaster at Cold Harbor
Battle of the Crater
From Dalton to Atlanta
THE FINAL STRUGGLES: SEPTEMBER 1864 TO APRIL 1865
Sherman s Plan
To Make Men Free
Lincoln s Second Inaugural Address
Beginning of the End
Lee s Surrender
LINCOLN S DEATH, NEW NATION: APRIL 1865 TO 1877
Lincoln on the Mountaintop
Lincoln s Assassination
Lincoln s Posthumous Fame
Lincoln Compared to Other Great Presidents
Modern-Day Reenactments
Modern-Day Movies
THE CIVIL WAR IN MEMORY: 1877 TO 2013
A PPENDIX A: J EFFERSON D AVIS I NAUGURAL A DDRESS , F EBRUARY 18, 1861
A PPENDIX B: A BRAHAM L INCOLN S F IRST I NAUGURAL A DDRESS , M ARCH 4, 1861
A PPENDIX C: E MANCIPATION P ROCLAMATION , J ANUARY 1, 1863
A PPENDIX D: G ETTYSBURG A DDRESS , N OVEMBER 23, 1863
A PPENDIX E: A BRAHAM L INCOLN S S ECOND I NAUGURAL A DDRESS , M ARCH 4, 1865
A PPENDIX F: T HE T HIRTEENTH A MENDMENT
A PPENDIX G: U NION R EGIMENTS THAT S UFFERED THE H IGHEST P ERCENTAGE OF T OTAL C ASUALTIES
C HRONOLOGY
B IBLIOGRAPHY
I NDEX
Dedication

For my beloved Charlotte, who came from a foreign land that has also been tested in civil war. May her home country and her adopted one both know the blessings of peace.
Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Davis Abbott for all the Avalon Hill war games, and to John S. Bowman, who helped cut my teeth in the writing of popular history. Great memories to Nicholas Racheotes, the inspirer-in-chief, as well as to Bradley Nutting, who showed me the path of a conscientious historian. Locally, thanks to the staffs of all the libraries in the Pioneer Valley but especially to those of Smith College, where so many Civil War facts were found. And many thanks to the Book Expo of America because that is where I met Roger J necke and Kevin Hile, the forces behind the pages of Visible Ink.
Photo Credits

Dean Franklin: p. 339 .
Hal Jesperson: pp. 209 , 213 , 220 , 221 , 253 , 275 , 278 , 279 , 294 , 318 , 319
Nat Bocking: p. 345 .
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center: p. 7 .
Silver2k12: p. 293 .
Shutterstock: pp. 4 , 36 , 37 , 72 , 73 , 92 , 106 , 125 , 136 , 137 , 148 , 149 , 188 , 202 , 206 , 217 , 230 , 264 , 347 .
All other works are in the public domain in the United States and those countries with copyright terms of life of one hundred years or less.
Introduction

The men and women of 1861 lived in the long shadow cast by the events of 1776. Eighty-five years had passed since the writing of the Declaration of Independence, but that document-and the repercussions it caused-echoed for the people about to enter the American Civil War. Even their children, once past the age of nine or ten, were acutely conscious of their American Revolution heritage.
The reason is not hard to find: the grandparents, and in come cases great-grandparents, of the people of 1861 had indeed achieved something remarkable by establishing a true republic against great odds. Whether it was a full-scale