Thanks Wirraway. I have read two of Catton’s books of the trilogy, Army of the Potomac, also some McPherson and Shelby Foote. All great writers. I will keep your list and delve, delve, delve.I’ll look up the “transitional” laws but offhand, there were laws that manumitted black soldiers, then black soldier’s families, they were all small steps and I may be confusing reforms with manumission but I believe there were a few others. the EP, as you know, applied to slaves in areas still under confederate control. the EP was partly a political stroke, but it had a practical effect in the field, where blacks living in areas under federal occupation were no longer slaves.
*Lincoln at Gettsburg *by Gary F. Wills is stunning, not exactly a history, but about how and why the Address was written.
try Bruce Catton’s *Army of the Potomac *trilogy, or his The Centennial History of the Civil War. This Hallowed Ground.
Daniel Boatner’s *Civil War Dictionary *is useful for some of the terms (what a brevet rank is, how big is a regiment).
online you could check out* Battles and Leaders of the Civil War*, which was a series of articles and counterarticles written by participants in, I think, the 1880s, this is also online.
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion is now online, that’s like all of the official records. its huge.
Killer Angels is classic.
Wrong about what? I didn’t make any point about the quote I had posted. I simply posted the quote. I was just pointing out to the person who posted before me that Lincoln’s moral objection to slavery did not make it into his speeches until way late in his term.note the date, 1862. preservation of slavery was still an option. by 1865, the war was a much different beast, the rubicon of slavery had been crossed, and there was no going back.
meaning, the 13th amendment had been passed, the emancipation proclamation, and a dozen other statutes that ended slavery forever in the south.
so you’re wrong.
Foote and McPherson are fine writers, I think they lack the passion of Catton.Thanks Wirraway. I have read two of Catton’s books of the trilogy, Army of the Potomac, also some McPherson and Shelby Foote. All great writers. I will keep your list and delve, delve, delve.
Also love your moniker Wirraway. Where do I know that name from? Last of the Mohicans, Moby ****???
That site sounds intrigueing. So to www.battlesandleader.com I will try. Is that site the correct www.? Thanks.Foote and McPherson are fine writers, I think they lack the passion of Catton.
If you want to start on a recommendation, try Battles and Leaders (its online), its the equivalent of one of these threads, where former union and confed soldiers bicker back and forth in articles over who did what to whom and why and who’se to blame.
thanks …its Australian aboriginal for “challenge”. its also the name of a OZ single engine aircraft, there’s a funny story about one, post WW2, the aircraft manages to take off without its pilot and overflies Sidney, I think, and out to sea, where it went to wherever good wirraways go.
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War is here:That site sounds intrigueing. So to www.battlesandleader.com I will try. Is that site the correct www.? Thanks.
All of the above writers have their own style, but I do also like Catton and perhaps the best.
Mucho Gracias mon ami. Oops sort of got that mixed didn’t I? That is the state of things these days. Election time you know.Battles and Leaders of the Civil War is here:
ehistory.osu.edu/osu/books/battles/index.cfm
in hard cover, its a four volume set (there’s an abridged one volume, but the longer one is better)
*Official Records of the War of the Rebellion *is here:
civilwarhome.com/records.htm
or
ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/records/
have fun.