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03630aam a2200277Ii 4500 001 47F04474CAD811ECB187E7395AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220503065729 008 211101t20222020laua 001 e eng d 020 $a 9780807177273 (softcover) 020 $a 080717727X 035 $a (OCoLC)1281651032 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d GZD $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d WEX $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Gallagher, Gary W., $e author. 245 14 $a The enduring Civil War : $b reflections on the great American crisis / $c Gary W. Gallagher. 250 $a Louisiana paperback edition. 260 $a Baton Rouge : $b Louisiana State University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xiii, 277 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and index. 505 0 $a Part I. Framing the war. Linking America's two most important wars -- Antebellum -- History and historical memory -- Our West -- One war or two?: the United States versus Confederates and Indians, 1861-1865 -- Unconventional warfare -- The dark turn-- late nineteenth-century style -- Reckoning with Confederate desertion -- The Grand Review -- Revisiting the Gettysburg Address -- Environmental shocks -- Part II. Generals and battles. Tracking U.S. Grant's reputation -- The supreme partnership -- R.E. Lee as a general -- Robert E. Lee's multiple loyalties -- A one-sided friendship -- Attrition in Lee's high command -- Little Mac -- How Lee's "Old War-Horse" gained a new following -- Stonewall Jackson and the Confederate people -- Stonewall and Old Jube in the valley -- Sheridan makes his name in the valley -- Poor George Gordon Meade -- Reynolds and Sedgwick -- Toward Santa Fe and beyond: Confederates in New Mexico -- Gettysburg in perspective -- Part III. Controversies. Let the chips fall where they will -- Two ways to approach one war -- The Union in memory -- The Union army and emancipation -- Union veterans claimed they fought for a higher cause -- The war was won in the East -- The desperate gamble -- The war's overlooked turning points -- Did the fall of Vicksburg really matter? -- What if? -- Did the war end in 1865? -- Occupation and the Union military effort -- Part IV. Historians and books. Lessons from David M. Potter -- Two gifted writers -- "The plain folk's pioneer" reframed history -- Recovering Allan Nevins -- Acknowledging Ella Lonn -- Shelby Foote, popular historian -- Gettysburg's great historian -- British writers view the Confederacy -- Biographers and generals -- A tactical history masterpiece -- Off the tracks -- The "other" Confederate army -- Deciding what to read -- Part V. Testimony from participants. Seeing the war through soldiers' letters -- Father Neptune's war -- Abner Doubleday's revenge -- Congressional oversight with a punch -- Voices from the Army of the Potomac -- Harvard men at war -- John B. Jones's war -- Right-hand men -- Confederate women view the war -- Wartime chronicle -- A window into Confederate memory -- An indispensable Confederate and his diary -- Every sketch tells a story -- Part VI. Places and public culture. Go to Gettysburg! -- Battlefields as teaching tools -- Fluid landscapes -- Reevaluating Virginia's "shared history" -- The power of photographs -- Glory: reflections on a Civil War classic -- Hollywood's twenty-first-century Lincoln. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Civil War, 1861-1865. 651 0 $a United States $x Historiography. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Historiography. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220503071501.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=47F04474CAD811ECB187E7395AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search