The Civil War 100 : the stories behind the most influential battles, people and events in the war between the states /
Contains brief essays that describe and rank the one hundred most significant leaders, battles, and events of the American Civil War by order of influence, as selected by the author.
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Naperville, Ill. :
Sourcebooks,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Antietam (September 16-18, 1862)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
- Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885)
- Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863)
- Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870)
- William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
- Vicksburg (May 18-July 4, 1863)
- Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888)
- Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)
- First Bull Run (July 21, 1861)
- George Henry Thomas (1816-1870)
- Chattanooga (November 23-25, 1863)
- James Longstreet (1821-1904)
- David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870)
- Franklin (November 30, 1864)
- March to the Sea (November 15-December 21, 1864)
- Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1808-1891)
- Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862)
- Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894)
- Atlanta Campaign (May 1-September 8, 1864)
- Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877)
- Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)
- James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart (1833-1864)
- George Gordon Meade (1815-1872)
- Blockade and Blockade Runners (1861-1865)
- Ambrose Powell Hill (1825-1865)
- Anaconda Plan (1861)
- John Buchanan Floyd (1806-1863)
- Shenandoah Valley Campaign (August 7, 1864-March 2, 1865)
- Winfield Scott (1786-1866)
- Chancellorsville (April 30-May 6, 1863)
- Peninsular Campaign (March-July, 1862)
- Edmund Kirby Smith (1824-1893)
- Communications and Transportation (1861-1865)
- Fort Donelson (February 11-16, 1862)
- Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson (1824-1863)
- Appomattox Campaign (March 29-April 9, 1865)
- Black Soldiers and Sailors (1861-1865)
- John Sedgwick (1813-1864)
- Second Bull Run (August 29-30, 1862)
- Mathew Brady (1823-1896)
- Andersonville Prison (February 1864-April 1865)
- Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-1893)
- Pea Ridge (March 6-8, 1862)
- John Bell Hood (1831-1879)
- Petersburg (June 15, 1864-March 29,1865)
- Weapons Technology (1861-1865)
- Joseph Hooker (1814-1879)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
- Fort Sumter (April 12-14 1861).
- George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885)
- George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876)
- Fredericksburg (December 13,1862)
- John Brown (1800-1859)
- Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886)
- Mobile Bay (August 2-23, 1864)
- Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881)
- Dred Scott Decision (March 6, 1847)
- Cold Harbor (May 31-June12, 1864)
- Braxton Bragg (1817-1876)
- War Correspondents (1861-1865)
- Wilderness (May 5-7, 1864)
- Henry Wagner Halleck (1815-1872)
- James Harrison Wilson (1837-1925)
- Spotsylvania Court House (May 8-21, 1864)
- Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
- Franz Sigel (1824-1902)
- Music (1861-1865)
- Wade Hampton (1818-1902)
- Wilson?s Creek (August 10, 1861)
- Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818-1893)
- Hampton Roads (March 8-9, 1862)
- Thomas Lafayette Rosser (1836-1910)
- Chickamauga (September 18-20, 1863)
- John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865)
- Draft Riots (Summer 1863)
- Joseph Wheeler (1836-1906)
- Missouri Compromise (1820)
- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914)
- Irwin McDowell (1818-1885)
- Red River Campaign (March 10-May 22, 1864)
- William Mahone (1826-1895)
- Presidents of the Future (1861-1865)
- John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875)
- Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862)
- John Pope (1822-1892)
- Nashville (December 15-16, 1864)
- John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864)
- George Stoneman (1822-1894)
- USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama (June 19, 1864)
- John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916)
- Nathaniel Prentiss Banks (1816-1894)
- George Edward Pickett (1825-1875)
- New Mexico and Arizona (1861-1862)
- Hugh Judson Kilpatrick (1836-1881)
- Intelligence (1861-1865)
- Charleston Harbor (February 17, 1864)
- Daniel Butterfield (1831-1901)
- John Pelham (1838-1863)
- Palmito Ranch (May 12-13, 1865).