The Civil War
Subtitle: exploring history one week at a time
By: Dennis Gaffney and Peter Gaffney
Contributors: Gaffney, Peter
Series: The seven-day scholar
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9781401323745
Description: This volume in the Seven-Day Scholar series brings to life significant moments in our nation's heroic tragedy, the Civil War, and coincides with its 150th anniversary. The book is organized into fifty-two chapters, corresponding to the weeks in a year; and each week has a theme--what ignited the war, Antietam, soldiers' food and drink, the 54th Massachusetts, the Gettysburg Address, Vicksburg, medical care, Lincoln's assassination, why the North won, and many more. Each chapter includes seven related narrative entries, one for every day of the week. These one-page entries, which read like historical fiction, bring to life crucial political decisions, unforgettable people, key battlefield moments, scholarly debates, and struggles on the home front.
Table of contents: title: Prelude to a war: sparks before the flame; title: The country explodes, the cannon is fired (1860-1861); title: A bloody war for freedom (1862); title: An all-consuming battle (1863); title: The people, weary of war (1864); title: The "mighty scourge" ends, the nation is transformed (1865)