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Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era by James M McPherson; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><P>Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, <b>Battle Cry of Freedom</b> will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.<br> James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War—the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry—and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself—the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory.<br> The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the So
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- Author
- James M McPherson; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199726585
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.32 / 5 (214 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States Book 6) (1989)
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States Book 6) (1988)
- Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era (2003)
- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States Book 5) (2007)
- The illustrated Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era (2003)
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States Book 6) (2011)
- Battle Cry of Freedom (1988)
- Battle Cry of Freedom- The Civil War Era- 1848-1865 (1988)
- The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States, Vol. 3) (1985)
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States Book 6) (2003)
- معركة صرخة الحرية [Arabic] (1988)
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1989)
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Volume VI of The Oxford History of the United States) (1988)
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