THE ARMY OF THE POTAMAC Bruce Catton History American Civil War Lincoln 3 Books

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3 Book LotComplete Series Trilogy
THE ARMY OF THE POTAMAC
by : Bruce Catton
Book One : MR. LINCOLN\'S ARMY1962363 Pages including Index
Book Two : GLORY ROAD1952389 pages Including Index
Book Three : A STILLNESS AT APPOMATTOX1953438 Pages including IndexVintage BooksGreat for the Military History Buff
Published by: Doubleday & Company , Garden City, New York
Condition For all Books : These books have no dust cover jackets. They have fading-especially to spine and includingsome of the lettering, rubbing, scuffing, corner bumps, some light stains to the papers edge, and age toning,We take many pictures so you can see the condition, so please look at all the pictures as it is possiblewe may sometimes miss Little Info From Wikipedia

Charles Bruce Catton(October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978) was an American historian and journalist, best known for his books on theAmerican Civil War.Known as anarrative historian, Catton specialized inpopular history, featuring colorful characters and historical vignettes, in addition to the basic facts, dates, and analyses. Although his books were well researched and supported by footnotes, they were not generally presented in a rigorous academic style. He won aPulitzer Prizein 1954 forA Stillness at Appomattox,his study of the final campaign of the war inVirginia.

In the early 1950\'s, Catton published three books known as the Army of the Potomac trilogy. InMr. Lincoln\'s Army(1951), the first volume of his history of theArmy of the Potomac, Catton covered the army\'s formation, the command ofGeorge B. McClellan, thePeninsula Campaign, theNorthern Virginia Campaign, and theBattle of Antietam. In the second volume,Glory Road(1952), Catton covered the army\'s history under new commanding generals, from theBattle of Fredericksburgto theBattle of Gettysburg. In his final volume of the trilogy,A Stillness at Appomattox(1953), Catton covered the campaigns ofUlysses S. Grantin Virginia from 1864 to the end of the war in 1865. It was his first commercially successful work and it won both thePulitzer Prize for Historyand aNational Book Award for Nonfiction.The three volumes were reissued as a single volume reprint titled,Bruce Catton\'s Civil War(1988).

TheAmerican Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply theCivil Waras well as othernames, was acivil warfought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southernslave statesindividually declared theirsecessionfrom theUnited States of Americaand formed theConfederate States of America. TheConfederacy, often simply called theSouth, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recognized by any foreign country. The states that remained loyal and did not declare secession were known as theUnionor theNorth. Thewar had its originin the factious issue ofslavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories.After four years of combat, which had left up to 750,000 Americans, Union and Confederate, dead and had destroyed much of the South\'s infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed and slavery was abolished. Then began theReconstructionand the processes of restoring national unity and guaranteeingcivil rightsto the freed slaves.

In the1860 presidential election,Republicans, led byAbraham Lincoln, supported banning slavery in all theU.S. territories, something the Southern states viewed as a violation of their constitutional rights and as being part of a plan to eventually abolish slavery. The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a majority of the electoral votes, and Lincoln was elected the first Republican president, but beforehis inauguration, seven slave states withcotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. The first six to secede had the highest proportions of slaves in their populations, a total of 48.8 percent.Eight remaining slave states continued to reject calls for secession. OutgoingDemocraticPresidentJames Buchananand the incoming Republicans rejected secession as illegal.Lincoln\'s March 4, 1861 inaugural addressdeclared his administration would not initiatecivil war. Speaking directly to \"the Southern States,\" he reaffirmed, \"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.\"Confederate forces seized numerous federal forts within territory claimed by the Confederacy. Efforts at compromise failed, and both sides prepared for war. The Confederates assumed thatEuropeancountries were so dependent on \"King Cotton\" that they would intervene; none did, and none recognized the new Confederate States of America.

Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired uponFort Sumter. While in theWestern Theaterthe Union made significant permanent gains, in theEastern Theater, battle was inconclusive in 1861–62. The autumn 1862 Confederate campaigns into Maryland and Kentucky failed, dissuading British intervention.Lincoln issued theEmancipation Proclamation, which made ending slavery a war goal.To the west, by summer 1862 the Union destroyed the Confederate river navy, then much of their western armies and seized New Orleans. The 1863 Unionsiege of Vicksburgsplit the Confederacy in two at theMississippi River. In 1863,Robert E. Lee\'s Confederate incursion north ended at theBattle of Gettysburg. Western successes led toUlysses S. Grant\'s command of all Union armies in 1864. Inflicting an ever-tighteningnaval blockadeof Confederate ports, the Union marshaled the resources and manpower to attack the Confederacy from all directions, leading to thefall of AtlantatoWilliam T. Shermanandhis march to the sea. The last significant battles raged around theSiege of Petersburg. Lee\'s escape attempt ended with hissurrender at Appomattox Court House, on April 9, 1865. While the military war was coming to an end, the political reintegration of the nation was to take another 12 years of theReconstruction Era.

The American Civil War was one of the earliest trueindustrial wars. Railroads, the telegraph, steamships, and mass-produced weapons were employed extensively. The mobilization of civilian factories, mines, shipyards, banks, transportation and food supplies all foreshadowed the impact of industrialization inWorld War I. It remains the deadliest war inAmerican history. From 1861 to 1865, it has been traditionally estimated that about 620,000 died but recent scholarship argues that 750,000 soldiers died,along with an undetermined number ofcivilians.By one estimate, the war claimed the lives of 10 percent of all Northern males 20–45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40.

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