American Civil War

From 1861 to 1865 America was caught in the convulsions of warThe Civil War.
No historical event, short of the American Revolution itself, has so deeply affected the United States.
The central question involved the nature of the union. Was the United States one nation, or were the
United States a group of sovereign states that could choose to disassociate? If America was a union
then the powerful North could abolish slavery and impose tariffs on the slave-holding, agricultural South.
If America was a confederacy, then Southern states could preserve their institutions by withdrawing
from the union.

What provoked this bloodletting? Both sides honored the same Constitution, spoke the same language,
and worshipped the same God. But neither side could agree whether America was a union or a compact
of states.

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Civil War, The: Part 2

Written By : Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

Peformed By : George C. Scott

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Length : 2 hours 30 minutes

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On April 9, 1865, General Lee surrendered what remained of his Confederate Army.
But what had the North won? The United States of America was now one nation, but that nation
was crippled by the economic costs of war: wholesale destruction, inflation, and poverty. The
political costs were no less. Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated and Southern leaders were
in jail. Northern politicians now began to "reconstruct" the South, to build state governments that
would be loyal to the union. But the conquered South simmered with resentments that could not
be legislated out of existence.

The United States at War series is a collection of presentations that review the political, economic,
and social forces that have erupted in military conflict and examine how the conflict resolved, or
failed to resolve the forces that caused war.

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Civil War, The: The American Heritage History Of

Civil War, The: The American Heritage History Of

Written By : Bruce Catton

Peformed By : Barrett Whitener

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Length : 8 hours

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Scholarly, judicious, clear, and unfailingly interesting.New York Times

America needed its great war of brothers, wrote Bruce Catton, to weld in a terrible fire what
had been and what might be. The story of the war needs retelling because it helped to change
the future of the human race.

For a person seeking a single volume to serve as a captivating introduction and a dependable
guide through all the maze of battles and issues of the Civil War, this is a book without parallel.
Catton understood the Civil War, its participants and battles, and he unfolds it with skill and
simplicity. Of all historians past and present, Bruce Catton ranks among the best.

Bruce Catton (1899-1978), author and editor, is best known as a Civil War historian. Born in Petosky, Michigan, he spent most of his childhood in Benzonia, Michigan, where his father was a teacher and principal at Benzonia Academy. He later served in the navy and worked for newspapers and the federal government. At age fifty-one, he published his first Civil War book, Mr. Lincoln's Army. In 1954, the year he became the editor of American Heritage magazine, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book A Stillness at Appomattox.

Civil War, The: A Narrative, Vol. I, Fort Sumter to Perryville

Civil War, The: A Narrative, Vol. I, Fort Sumter to Perryville

Written By : Shelby Foote

Peformed By : Grover Gardner

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Length : 19 hours

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Here begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days, Second Manassas to Antietam and Perryville in the fall of 1862, but so are the smaller and often equally important engagements on both land and sea: Balls Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten, New Orleans, Monitor versus Merrimac, and Stonewall Jacksons Valley Campaignto mention only a few. And perhaps never before have these conflicts been so clearly, so dramaticallyand so excitinglypresented. The word narrative is the key, not only to this extraordinary books incandescence, but also to its truth. The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. The listener not only learns what was happening in the North and South, on the political, military, diplomatic and home frontshe lives through the events as if he were there. This is the way it was, in its entirety, as far as Shelby Foote could discover it during years of exhaustive research.

Shelby Foote comes from a long line of Mississippians. He was born in Greenville, and attended school there until he entered the University of North Carolina. During World War II he served in the European theater as a captain of field artillery. He has written six novels—Tournament, Shiloh, Love in a Dry Season, Follow Me Down, Jordan County and September September. He was awarded three Guggenheim fellowships in the twenty-year course of writing his monumental three-volume history The Civil War: A Narrative.

Grover Gardner, named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" by AudioFile magazine, has recorded more than five hundred audiobooks. He is the recipient of more than thirteen Earphones Awards as well as an Audie Award. In addition to narrating, he has an active career as an actor and stage director. He lives in Washington,

Civil War, The: A Narrative, Vol. II, Fredericksburg to Meridian

Civil War, The: A Narrative, Vol. II, Fredericksburg to Meridian

Written By : Shelby Foote

Peformed By : Grover Gardner

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Length : 23 hours

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This volume is dominated by the almost continual confrontation of great armies. For the fourth time, the Army of the Potomac (now under the control of Burnside) attempts to take Richmond, resulting in the blood-bath at Fredericksburg. Then Joe Hooker tries again, only to be repulsed at Chancellorsville as Stonewall Jackson turns his flanka bitter victory for the South, paid for by the death of Lees foremost lieutenant. In the West, during the six-month standoff that followed the shock of Murfreesboro in the central theater, one of the most complex and determined sieges of the war has begun. Here Grants seven relentless efforts against Vicksburg show Lincoln that he has at last found his killer-general, the man who can face the arithmetic. With Vicksburg finally under siege, Lee again invades the North. The three-day conflict at Gettysburg receives book-length attention in a masterly treatment of a key great battle, not as legend has it but as it really was, before it became distorted by controversy and overblown by remembered glory.

Shelby Foote comes from a long line of Mississippians. He was born in Greenville, and attended school there until he entered the University of North Carolina. During World War II he served in the European theater as a captain of field artillery. He has written six novels—Tournament, Shiloh, Love in a Dry Season, Follow Me Down, Jordan County and September September. He was awarded three Guggenheim fellowships in the twenty-year course of writing his monumental three-volume history The Civil War: A Narrative.

Grover Gardner, named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" by AudioFile magazine, has recorded more than five hundred audiobooks. He is the recipient of more than thirteen Earphones Awards as well as an Audie Award. In addition to narrating, he has an active career as an actor and stage director. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Civil War, The: A Narrative, Vol. III, Red River to Appomattox

Civil War, The: A Narrative, Vol. III, Red River to Appomattox

Written By : Shelby Foote

Peformed By : Grover Gardner

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Length : 20 hours

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In the thirdand lastvolume of this vivid history, Shelby Foote brings to a close the story of four years of turmoil and strife which altered American life forever. Here, told in vivid narrative and as seen from both sides, are those climactic struggles, great and small, on and off the field of battle, which finally decided the fate of this nation.

Shelby Foote comes from a long line of Mississippians. He was born in Greenville, and attended school there until he entered the University of North Carolina. During World War II he served in the European theater as a captain of field artillery. He has written six novels—Tournament, Shiloh, Love in a Dry Season, Follow Me Down, Jordan County and September September. He was awarded three Guggenheim fellowships in the twenty-year course of writing his monumental three-volume history The Civil War: A Narrative.

Grover Gardner, named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" by AudioFile magazine, has recorded more than five hundred audiobooks. He is the recipient of more than thirteen Earphones Awards as well as an Audie Award. In addition to narrating, he has an active career as an actor and stage director. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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