The American war : a history of the Civil War era / Gary W. Gallagher, Joan Waugh.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gallagher, Gary W. (Author)
Waugh, Joan (Author)
Language:English
Published: State College, PA : Flip Learning, 2016.
Edition:First Flip Learning paperback edition.
Subjects:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States.
1861-1865
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Expansion, nation, and perception : the road to secession and war
  • Two republics gird for war
  • War in earnest : shifting military tides in 1862
  • A war of citizen-soldiers
  • The process of emancipation
  • Heavy blows but no decision : the winter of 1862 to the spring of 1864
  • A struggle between nations
  • Women and the war
  • Passing through to Union victory : the spring of 1864 to the spring of 1865
  • Reconstruction and the problems of reunification, 1863-1868
  • The end of Reconstruction, 1868-1877
  • The wartime generation remembers the conflict.