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Book

The Civil War

Call Number

  • J 973.7 OTFI (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, NY : Scholastic, 2017.

Physical Description

144 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book details major events of the U.S. Civil War, as well as the war's cultural impact"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

  • The two sides in the Civil War
  • Slavery in America
  • A nation divided
  • Abraham Lincoln for president
  • Secession
  • Fort Sumter
  • Raw recruits
  • The first battle of the war
  • Confederate generals
  • Union generals
  • The Monitor and the Merrimack
  • The Emancipation Proclamation
  • Black soldiers
  • The Battle of Chancellorsville
  • The war in literature
  • The Battle of Gettysburg
  • The draft riots
  • General Ulysses S. Grant
  • Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
  • Angels of the battlefield
  • Staying in touch
  • The home front
  • North and South
  • "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
  • Sherman's March to the Sea
  • The election of 1864
  • Battles in the backyard
  • Surrender at Appomattox
  • The president has been shot!
  • The ashes of war
  • Reconstruction
  • Civil rights and wrongs
  • Key players
  • Civil War timeline
  • Glossary.

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