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Rebels at the Gate: Lee and McClellan on the Front Line of a Nation Divided - Softcover

Lesser, W.

 
9781402204074: Rebels at the Gate: Lee and McClellan on the Front Line of a Nation Divided
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1402204078 ISBN 13: 9781402204074
Verlag: SPHINX PUB, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Rebels at the Gate is the dramatic story of the first Union victories of the Civil War and the events that caused Virginians to divide their state. In a defiant act to sustain President Lincoln's war effort, Virginia Unionists created their own state government in 1861-destined to become the new state of West Virginia.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

W. Hunter Lesser has had a 20-year career as an archaeologist and is involved with many archaeological and historical preservation groups, including the Civil War Preservation Trust, Trust for Public Land and the National Park Service. Recently, he acted as a technical advisor for the Conservation Fund's The Civil War Battlefield Guide. He lives in West Virginia.

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?The Early Battles That Split a State and Changed a Nation
?At the dawn of the Civil War, two men took up the reins of the Confederate and Union armies and led their troops into the war's first campaign. Those men were Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan, and their victories and failures on the mountaintops of Virginia during those early battles would split a state and set the stage for America's bloodiest war.
Praise for Rebels at the Gate
??Lesser uncovered manuscripts, diaries and letters from soldiers and civilians to relate the story of the first Union victories and the events that caused Virginians to divide the state. This detailed account of the Civil War's beginnings re-creates the sights and sounds, the feelings and passions of
the battlefield.?
-Booklist
?People tend to forget that the first land campaign of the Civil War was fought in Virginia, but in what is today West Virginia, a region that both sides thought to be of vital importance in 1861, as indeed it was. W. Hunter Lesser's Rebels at the Gate is the first study of this campaign in generations, and surely the finest to date, thoroughly researched, thoughtfully presented and riddled with the future great lights of the war-Robert E. Lee, George B. McClellan, William Rosecrans and more. Only the Civil War could have produced battles at places with names like Traveller's Repose, and perhaps only a West Virginian like Hunter Lesser could have produced this fine study.?
-William C. Davis, author and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee
?Hunter Lesser has fashioned what will now be the standard work on the
military and political struggle for western Virginia in the Civil War.?

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Verlag
SPHINX PUB
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1402204078
ISBN 13 
9781402204074
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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