A History of the American People
said that he deplored talk of secession, but nothing could be done, by him anyway, to prevent it. Three days later South Carolin ...
and purposes are hostile to slavery.' But most presidents of the United States had been hostile to slavery, not least Jefferson, ...
which, at this stage, he could see clear, and he stuck to it. This strategy, in turn, set off the mechanism of the war. On asser ...
In demographic terms, the Confederacy was at a huge disadvantage. The census of 1860 showed that the eleven Confederate states h ...
million; by March 1862 $100 million; August 1862 $200 million; December 1862 $450 million. In 1863 it doubled again to $900 mill ...
118611 he declared strict and impartial neutrality.' The North's naval blockade caused much less friction with Britain than the ...
and injustice gave him a repellent manner.' Faced with criticism he could not bear, he took refuge in illness. A lot of Davis' s ...
made a lot of mistakes, especially with his generals, but unlike Davis he learned from them. The South was fighting for its very ...
colored race I do because I believe it helps to save the Union ... I shall d, less whenever I believe that what I am doing hurts ...
in league with Hell,' and the South was nowsuffering for its sins' as a matter of divine logic.' He also worked out that General ...
it, as he said repeatedly, to preserve the Union. But by the early summer of 1862 he was convinced that, by divine providence, t ...
The problem was generals who would fight-and win. General Scott, head of the army, was not a man of the highest wisdom, as we ha ...
resolute, daring, and ingenious army commander. On April 6-7, 1862, in the first major battle of the war at Shiloh, at Pittsburg ...
Jackson was not the only superb commander on the Confederate side. Colonel John Singelton Mosby (1833-1916), who worked behind t ...
reputation was not improved by a ruffianly stepson, Black Horse Harry,' who specialized in adultery. So Lee set himself quite de ...
again capable of winning the war. It has been a sad day for us,' said Lee at one o'clock the next morning,almost too tired to di ...
in the heat of the Mexican War, fighting at Palo Alto, Resaca, Monterrey, and Mexico City, and he learned a lot about logistics, ...
was even more serious than the North's casualties. Nonetheless, Lincoln was profoundly disturbed by the carnage and failure. The ...
Sherman's capture of Atlanta and his rout of the Southern army in Georgia came in time-just-to insure Lincoln's reelection. Duri ...
impel him, I think, to take an antagonist in flank, rather than make a bull-run at him right in front. But on the whole I like t ...
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