It's a very easy read and also very enjoyable. McPherson's prose reads in the style of a novel. Then, it starts off on the attack on Fort Sumter and what happened the rest of the time during the Civil War. It starts off at the end of the Mexican-American War and does so for the first 100 pages. It has a good balance of the battles such as Gettysburg and Antietam while it does discuss the social, political, and economic factors that also fueled the war. This book is undoubtedly the best 1-volume book on the war that divided and reunited America but ended some of our back-then traditions such as slavery. That is, 3 weeks of contemplating reading it and proceeding to finish it in 3 days. Being a young history buff, it took me 3 weeks and 3 days to read this.
Was the liberation of four million slaves and the preservation of the Union worth the cost? That question too will probably never cease to be debated-but in 1865 few Black people and not many northerners doubted the answer." (less)īeing a young history buff, it took me 3 weeks and 3 days to read this. The number of southern civilians who died as a direct or indirect result of the war cannot be known what can be said is that the Civil War's cost in American lives was as great as in all of the nation's other wars combined through Vietnam. More than 620,000 soldiers lost their lives in four years of conflict-360,000 Yankees and at least 260,000 rebels. Meanwhile the process of chronicling the war and reckoning its consequences began immediately and has never ceased. "The terms of.peace and the dimensions of black freedom would occupy the country for a decade or more. The first approximately 200 pages are spent debunking the Lost Cause myth. Here's the last paragraph of …more Lol this book is the anti-Lost Cause history. Rinehart Lol this book is the anti-Lost Cause history. This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.moreī. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict.
Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war-slavery-and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War-the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry-and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself-the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities.
James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox.
James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the endin Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.
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