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Winning and Losing in the Civil War

Essays and Stories

By: Albert Castel

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Winning and Losing in the Civil War

Essays and Stories

By: Albert Castel

Winning and Losing in the Civil War collects fifteen of the most influential short writings by accomplished Civil War historian Albert Castel, each presented with his trademark wit, style, and analytical precision. The author expounds on some of the most provocative, arresting issues surrounding the war, including the dispute over inevitability of Northern victory and the question of Lee's greatness on and off the battlefield. Castel contemplates presidents and mules, generals and guerrillas, lovers and haters, facts and opinions, actualities and probabilities. In addition, he uses the volume as a forum for reflecting on his role as historian, identifying the primary problem facing present-day practitioners of Civil War historiography, and illumining what remains to be accomplished in this heavily tilled but ever-popular field of scholarly inquiry.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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157003074X

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9781570030741

Decision in the West

The Atlanta Campaign of 1864

By: Albert Castel

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Decision in the West

The Atlanta Campaign of 1864

By: Albert Castel

Following a skirmish on June 28, 1864, a truce is called so the North can remove their dead and wounded. For two hours, Yankees and Rebels mingle, with some of the latter even assisting the former in their grisly work. Newspapers are exchanged. Northern coffee is swapped for Southern tobacco. Yanks crowd around two Rebel generals, soliciting and obtaining autographs. As they part, a Confederate calls to a Yankee, "I hope to miss you, Yank, if I happen to shoot in your direction." "May I, never hit you Johnny if we fight again," comes the reply. The reprieve is short. A couple of months, dozens of battles, and more than 30,000 casualties later, the North takes Atlanta. One of the most dramatic and decisive episodes of the Civil War, the Atlanta Campaign was a military operation carried out on a grand scale across a spectacular landscape that pitted some of the war's best (and worst) general against each other. In Decision in the West, Albert Castel provides the first detailed history of the Campaign published since Jacob D. Cox's version appeared in 1882. Unlike Cox, who was a general in Sherman's army, Castel provides an objective perspective and a comprehensive account based on primary and secondary sources that have become available in the past 110 years. Castel gives a full and balanced treatment to the operations of both the Union and Confederate armies from the perspective of the common soldiers as well as the top generals. He offers new accounts and analyses of many of the major events of the campaign, and, in the process, corrects many long-standing myths, misconceptions, and mistakes. In particular, he challenges the standard view of Sherman's performance. Written in present tense to give a sense of immediacy and greater realism, Decision in the West demonstrates more definitively than any previous book how the capture of Atlanta by Sherman's army occurred and why it assured Northern victory in the Civil War.

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688

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University Press of Kansas

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070060748X

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9780700607488

Victors in Blue

How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War

By: Albert Castel,Brooks D. Simpson

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Victors in Blue

How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War

By: Albert Castel,Brooks D. Simpson

Make no mistake, the Confederacy had the will and valor to fight. But the Union had the manpower, the money, the matriel, and, most important, the generals. Although the South had arguably the best commander in the Civil War in Robert E. Lee, the North's full house beat their one-of-a-kind. Flawed individually, the Union's top officers nevertheless proved collectively superior across a diverse array of battlefields and ultimately produced a victory for the Union. Now acclaimed author Albert Castel brings his inimitable style, insight, and wit to a new reconsideration of these generals. With the assistance of Brooks Simpson, another leading light in this field, Castel has produced a remarkable capstone volume to a distinguished career. In it, he reassesses how battles and campaigns forged a decisive Northern victory, reevaluates the generalship of the victors, and lays bare the sometimes vicious rivalries among the Union generals and their effect on the war. From Shiloh to the Shenandoah, Chickamauga to Chattanooga, Castel provides fresh accounts of how the Union commanders--especially Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, and Meade but also Halleck, Schofield, and Rosecrans--outmaneuvered and outfought their Confederate opponents. He asks of each why he won: Was it through superior skill, strength of arms, enemy blunders, or sheer chance? What were his objectives and how did he realize them? Did he accomplish more or less than could be expected under the circumstances? And if less, what could he have done to achieve more--and why did he not do it? Castel also sheds new light on the war within the war: the intense rivalries in the upper ranks, complicated by the presence in the army of high-ranking non-West Pointers with political wagons attached to the stars on their shoulders. A decade in the writing, Victors in Blue brims with novel, even outrageous interpretations that are sure to stir debate. As certain as the Union achieved victory, it will inform, provoke, and enliven sesquicentennial discussions of the Civil War.

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375

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University Press of Kansas

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0700621415

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9780700621415

Neurodegenerative Diseases

Neurobiology, Pathogenesis and Therapeutics

By: M. Flint Beal,Anthony E. Lang,Albert C. Ludolph

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Neurodegenerative Diseases

Neurobiology, Pathogenesis and Therapeutics

By: M. Flint Beal,Anthony E. Lang,Albert C. Ludolph

Neurodegenerative diseases are major contributors to disability and disease, with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases the most prevalent. This major reference reviews the rapidly advancing knowledge of pathogenesis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases in the context of a comprehensive survey of each disease and its clinical features. The editors and contributors are among the leading experts in the field internationally. Covering basic science, diagnostic tools and therapeutic approaches, the book focuses on all aspects of neurodegenerative disease, including the normal aging process. The dementias, prion diseases, Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonisms, neurodegenerative ataxias, motor neuron diseases, degenerative diseases with chorea, iron and copper disorders, and mitochondrial diseases, are all methodically presented and discussed, with extensive illustrations. In each case the underlying genetics, neuropathological and clinical issues are fully reviewed, making this the most complete as well as the most authoritative reference available to clinicians and neuroscientists.

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1009

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Cambridge University Press

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1139443453

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9781139443456

Articles of War

Winners, Losers, and Some who Were Both in the Civil War

By: Albert Castel

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Winners, Losers, and Some who Were Both in the Civil War

By: Albert Castel

A delightful collection of essays on 14 of the most intriguing figures of the Civil War.

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284

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Stackpole Books

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0811700054

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9780811700054

Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry

By: Albert Brady, Robert Jr. Maxfield

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Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry

By: Albert Brady, Robert Jr. Maxfield

Reproduction of the original: Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry by Albert Maxfield, Robert Jr. Brady

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3752394633

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9783752394634

Loyalty on the Frontier, Or, Sketches of Union Men of the South-west

With Incidents and Adventures in Rebellion on the Border

By: Albert Webb Bishop

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Loyalty on the Frontier, Or, Sketches of Union Men of the South-west

With Incidents and Adventures in Rebellion on the Border

By: Albert Webb Bishop

First published in 1863, this book has the immediacy, passion, and intimacy of its wartime context. It tells the remarkable story of Albert Webb Bishop, a New York lawyer turned Union soldier, who in 1862 accepted a commission as lieutenant colonel in a regiment of Ozark mountaineers. While maintaining Union control of northwest Arkansas, he collected stories of the social coercion, political secession, and brutal terrorism that scarred the region. His larger goal, however, was to popularize and inspire sympathy for the South's Unionists and to chronicle the triumph of Unionism in a Confederate state. His account points to the complex and divisive nature of Confederate society and in doing so provides a perspective that has long been absent from discussions of the Civil War.

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282

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557287570

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9781557287571

Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts

By: John Henry Merryman,Albert Edward Elsen,Stephen K. Urice

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Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts

By: John Henry Merryman,Albert Edward Elsen,Stephen K. Urice

This book describes the collisions between the art world and the law, with a critical eye through a combination of primary source materials, excerpts from professional and art journals, and extensive textual notes. Topics analysed include + the fate of works of art in wartime, + the international trade in stolen and illegally exported cultural property, + artistic freedom, + censorship and state support for art and artists, + copyright, + droit moral and droit de suite, + the artist's professional life and death, + collectors in the art market, + income and estate taxation, + charitable donations and works of art, and + art museums and their collections. The authors are recognised experts in the field who have defined the canon in many aspects of art law.

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1356

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9041125175

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9789041125170

A Volcano Beneath the Snow

John Brown's War Against Slavery

By: Albert Marrin

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A Volcano Beneath the Snow

John Brown's War Against Slavery

By: Albert Marrin

John Brown is a man of many legacies, from hero, freedom fighter, and martyr, to liar, fanatic, and "the father of American terrorism." Some have said that it was his seizure of the arsenal at Harper's Ferry that rendered the Civil War inevitable. Deeply religious, Brown believed that God had chosen him to right the wrong of slavery. He was willing to kill and die for something modern Americans unanimously agree was a just cause. And yet he was a religious fanatic and a staunch believer in "righteous violence," an unapologetic committer of domestic terrorism. Marrin brings 19th-century issues into the modern arena with ease and grace in a book that is sure to spark discussion.

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Knopf Books for Young Readers

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0385753403

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9780385753401

The Blue & Gray Almanac

The Civil War in Facts & Figures, Recipes & Slang

By: Albert Nofi

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The Civil War in Facts & Figures, Recipes & Slang

By: Albert Nofi

“Help[s] readers to examine this period in history with a more cultural perspective than other books have . . . clear, concise, and crisp . . . fascinating” (San Francisco Book Review). • During the final days of the war, some Richmond citizens would throw “Starvation Parties,” soirees at which elegantly attired guests gathered amid the finest silver and crystal tableware, though there were usually no refreshments except water. • Union Rear-Admiral Goldsborough was nicknamed “Old Guts,” not so much for his combativeness as for his heft—weighing about three hundred pounds, he was described as “a huge mass of inert matter.” • 30.6 percent of the 425 Confederate generals, but only 21.6 percent of the 583 Union generals, had been lawyers before the war. • In 1861, J.P. Morgan made a huge profit by buying five thousand condemned US Army carbines and selling them back to another arsenal—taking the army to court when they tried to refuse to pay for the faulty weapons. • Major General Loring was reputed to have so rich a vocabulary that one of the men remarked he could “curse a cannon up hill without horses.” • Many militia units had a favorite drink—the Charleston Light Dragoons’ punch took around a week to make, while the Chatham Artillery required a pound of green tea leaves be steeped overnight. • There were five living former presidents when the Civil War began, and seven veterans of the war, plus one draft dodger, went on to serve as president. These stories and many more can be found in this treasury of anecdotes, essays, trivia, and much more—including numerous illustrations—that bring this historical period to vivid life.

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Casemate Publishers

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1612005535

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9781612005539

The Seven League Boots

By: Albert Murray

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The Seven League Boots

By: Albert Murray

The break-out novel by an unrecognized master--"a fictional tale spinner in the grand Southern tradition" (Washington Post Book World). Told from the point of view of a young Alabama college graduate in the 1920s, this brilliant novel recounts the exploits of a legendary jazz composer and his band on a tour that becomes a heroic journey "equivalent to the seven league strides of heroes in rocking chair story times.

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Vintage

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0307828646

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9780307828644

Book's by Albert Sherman Lee

Winning and Losing in the Civil War

Winning and Losing in the Civil War

Decision in the West

Decision in the West

Victors in Blue

Victors in Blue

Neurodegenerative Diseases

Neurodegenerative Diseases

Articles of War

Articles of War

Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry

Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry

Loyalty on the Frontier, Or, Sketches of Union Men of the South-west

Loyalty on the Frontier, Or, Sketches of Union Men of the South-west

Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts

Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts

A Volcano Beneath the Snow

A Volcano Beneath the Snow

The Blue & Gray Almanac

The Blue & Gray Almanac

The Seven League Boots

The Seven League Boots

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