Posted on 11/23/2016 6:01:04 PM PST by Loud Mime
I am studying our Civil War; anybody have any recommendations for reading?
A Stillness at Appomatox
Guns Of The South
by Harry Turtledove
It’s science fiction, but a wild great story and really does a good job of portraying historical figures like Davis, Lee and Lincoln and also does a good job of portraying life in the army.
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USS Virginia burned to the waterline. The CSS Merrimack rose from that ruin. Sheesh.
The West Point Atlas for the American Civil War, just for the maps.
https://www.amazon.com/Point-Atlas-American-Military-History/dp/0757001572
These West Point atlases are great accompaniments to other military histories. For instance, I once read one of David Chandler’s histories of the Napoleonic Wars side by side with the West Point Atlas, it really helps understand the narrative when you have great maps of the goings-on.
You have it reversed. She was commissioned as the USS Merrimac in the Boston Navy Yard in 1855. The ship was burned by her own crew on April 20 1861, to prevent her from falling into the hands of the Confederacy. The Confederates raised her and rebuilt her with the iron clad superstructure. She was then recommissioned as the CSS Virginia February 17,1862.
Too wide a request. Are you interested in a specific battle? A certain leader? A particular battle?
It was a rebellion.
The South had no shipping industry.
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This is the best book written by any American president. Without a doubt.
Freeman's biography on Lee is also good.
Any book by Bruce Catton...
Historian mrs jimfree recommends Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson.
"Fighting for the confederacy" by Edward Porter Alexander. Alexander was the preeminent artillary general for the south and fought in pretty much every major battle the ANV fought. It is a very easy read and not only analyzes the battles but gives lots of day to day stories about what it was like to be an officer in the civil war. His chapter on Gettysburg is the best overview and analysis of that battle I've read.
"Campaigning with Grant" by Horace Porter. Porter was a staff officer for Grant during his overland campaign and this book is a day to day diary of his experiences during that final year long campaign of the war. It is awesome and very similar in tone to the Alexander book. Easy to read and hard to put down. It is the best, and most intimate, portrait of Grant as a General ever written.
Same crap different day. You think this one will hit 1700 replies, too?
I think you're thinking of Thomas DiLorenzo. Thomas Woods wrote another work of fiction, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History".
You are welcome. I was very pleased when I found it. It throws a very different light on what happened, and it was written prior to the war. It also argues in favor of the South remaining in the Union so it can hardly be seen as a pro-secession book.
“Gettysburg: A Testing Of Courage” by Noah Andre Trudeau might be the best book you can find on the battle.
Highly recommended.
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