Fateful lightning : a new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction /
Guelzo, Allen C.
Guelzo, Allen C.Crisis of the American republic.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2012.
"First edition ... was originally published as The crisis of the American Republic : a history of the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, St. Martin's Press, 1994"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Nation Announcing Itself -- The Game of Balances -- Year of Meteors -- Sullen Hymns of Defeat -- Elusive Victories : East and West, 1862-1863 -- The Soldier's Tale -- The Manufacture of War -- Year That Trembled : East and West, 1863 -- World Turned Upside Down -- Stalemate and Triumph -- A Dim Shore Ahead -- Epilogue.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)