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Title:
The handy Civil War answer book / Samuel Willard Crompton.
Author:
Crompton, Samuel Etinde.
Publication Information:
Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press, [2014]
Call Number:
E468 .C93 2014
Abstract:
Provides answers to over nine hundred questions involving the United States Civil War, detailing the war's generals, weapons, battle events, and aftermath.
ISBN:
9781578594764
Series:
The handy answer book series
Physical Description:
xxi, 410 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Contents:
America in the 1850s -- Lincoln's election, Southern secession: 1860 to April 1861 -- The first battles: April 1861 to February 1862 -- Army of Northern Virginia: February to September 1862 -- From Antietam to Chancellorsville: September 1862 to May 1863 -- The home front: 1861 to 1865 -- Midpoint of the war: May to July 1863 -- The fight for Tennessee: July 1863 to January 1864 -- Total war: March to September 1864 -- The final struggles: September 1864 to April 1865 -- Lincoln's death, new nation: April 1865 to 1877 -- The civil war in memory: 1877 to 2013 -- Appendix A: Jefferson Davis' inaugural address, February 18, 1861 -- Appendix B: Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address, March 4, 1861 -- Appendix C: Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863 -- Appendix D: Gettysburg Address, November 23, 1863 -- Appendix E: Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, March 4, 1865 -- Appendix F: The Thirteenth Amendment Appendix G: Union regiments that suffered the highest percentage of total casualties.
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