With my face to the enemy
Subtitle: perspectives on the Civil War : essays
By: by David Herbert Donald ... [et al.] ; edited by Robert Cowley.
Contributors: Donald, David Herbert, 1920-; Cowley, Robert.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Description: "Why My Face to the Enemy is one of the most wide-ranging anthologies on the subject to come along in years, and a collection everyone interested in American history will want to read. Its thirty-six essays examine the war from the perspectives critical to its outcome - the larger-than-life personalities of the important players from Lincoln to Lee and the national strategies and key battle tactics that shaped the four-year-long crisis."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. FIRST SHOTS; title: Lincoln Takes Charge  David Herbert Donald 3; title: Band of Brothers: The West Point Corps  Thomas Fleming 27; title: The Ordeal of General Stone  Stephen W. Sears 41; title: 11. THE STRATEGIC VIEW; title: What Took the North So Long?  Williamson Murray 59; title: Failed Southern Strategies * James M. McPherson 72; title: How Lincoln Won the War with Metaphor * James M. McPherson 87; title: 1,. I862 AND 1863: BLOODY YEARS; title: Grant's Tennessee Gamble * Geoffrey Perret 05; title: Malvern Hill * Stephen W. Sears 122; title: The Last Word on the Lost Order * Stephen W. Sears 145; title: Defending Marye's Heights  Joseph H. Alexander 60; title: A Hellish Start to the Year:; title: The Battle of Stones River  Tom Wicker 177; title: Stonewall Jackson's Last March * Stephen W. Sears I90; title: he Antagonists of Little Round Top:; title: The Victor  Gideon Rose 2 I 8; title: The Other Man * Glenn W. LaFantasie 227; title: ks Down-Charge!; title: 'lhe Frontal Attack  Paddy Griffith 238; title: IV. LEADERS AND THEIR BATTLES; title: When Lee Was Mortal  Gary W. Gallagher 245; title: The Stonewall Enigma  John Bowers 261; title: Lord High Admiral of the U.S. Navy:; title: David Dixon Porter on the Mississippi  Joseph T. Glatthaar 273; title: Grant at Vicksburg:; title: A Lesson in Operational Art  Joseph T. Glatthaar 298; title: Hawk in the Fowlyard: Jeb Stuart  John M. Taylor 307; title: The Rock of Chickamauga: George H. Thomas  John Bowers 320; title: Considering Longstreet's Legacy  Glenn W. LaFantasie 332; title: Paladin of the Republic:; title: Philip H. Sheridan * Paul Andrew Hutton 348; title: V. THE LAST ACT; title: The Andersonvilles of the North  Philip Burnham 367; title: "Kill the Last Damn One of Them":; title: The Fort Pillow Massacre  Noah Andre Trudeau 382; title: The Boys of New Market  Geoffrey Norman 395; title: The Walls of 1864  Noah Andre Trudeau 412; title: The Fiery Trail of the Alabama  John M. Taylor 429; title: Jubal Early's Raid on Washington  Charles C. Osborne 443; title: The Crater  John M. Taylor 459; title: The Battle of Westport  Noah Andre Trudeau 472; title: The Second Surrender:; title: Bennitt's Farm, North Carolina  John M. Taylor 486; title: Rebel Without a War: The Shenandoah  Robert F. Jones 498; title: Ulysses S. Grant's Final Victory  James M. McPherson 5 I I.