num_pages: 904
description: This text presents a history of the American Civil War. It starts with an account of the years before the civil war and its causes - placing slavery firmly back in the centre stage - before discussing the war, the two sides, the international dimension, the position and role of the free blacks and slaves, to its outcome, the end of the war and reconstruction.
language: English
title: Battle Cry of Freedom: The American Civil War
titlecomplete: Battle Cry of Freedom: The American Civil War
characters: Stephen A. Douglas, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Franklin Pierce, Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Jefferson Davis, Salmon P. Chase, William Lloyd Garrison, William Tecumseh Sherman, John Brown, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, George McClellan, James Buchanan, Frederick Douglass, Roger B. Taney
genres: Civil War, Politics, Historical, Military Fiction, American History, American Civil War, War, Nonfiction, History, Military History
ratings_count: 30579
series: The Oxford History of the United States
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: The Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award
publisher: Penguin Books