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Turning Points of the Civil War by James A Rawley; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>James A. Rawley examines the seven turning points of the Civil War: the course of the slaveholding borderland in 1861, First Bull Run, the <i>Trent</i> affair, Antietam, the Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg and Vicksburg, and the presidential election of 1864. Among the topic unifying his book are slavery, democracy, British policy, military organization and progress, and the roles of Lincoln, McClellan, Davis, and Lee. The afterword looks at the Civil War itself as a turning point in American history. In a preface to this Bison Book editin, James A. Rawley, considers recent books that sustain the idea of turning points during the Civil War.</p>

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
James A Rawley; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Published
1989
Language
EN
ISBN
9780585255637
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, American Studies, Humanities

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