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Great Battles of the Civil War
Jack Steinberg
ASIN: B01H7Q66DY
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 257

Great Battles of the Civil WarHow could a civil war come to pass only eighty-five years after the forming of a wickedly hard-sought-after unified nation? What could be so irresolvable that the people of that nation decided to tear it apart and go to war, rather than do everything possible to fix the problem? Ironically, the problem was that individual states wanted the freedom to govern themselves, which is precisely what said nation went to war over eighty-five years previously: the right of American colonies to rule themselves, instead of being subject to England.The United States fought a long, bitter, deadly war from 1861-1865 over secession, states’ right to govern themselves, and the right to keep a way of life based on slavery. Great Battles of the Civil War is the story of that war, of its most shocking and violent battles: Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg ...
Amazon Rating:
4 stars from 19 ratings