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CONCLUSION by Chris Mackowski Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · About the Author Commentary The conclusion to Turning Points of the American Civil War suggests a variety of other possible turning points beyond those explored in the book’s essays. To spark additional conversation, ECW writers have written about a number of other possible turning […]
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CHAPTER NINE: “The Point of No Return: Turning Points within the 1864 Presidential Election and the Doom of the Confederacy” by Rea Andrew Redd Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · Suggested Reading · About the Author Commentary By Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor, “Engaging the Civil War” Series In November of 1864, Abraham Lincoln posted […]
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CHAPTER SEVEN: “’Oh, I Am Heartily Tired of Hearing about What Lee Is Going to Do’: Ulysses S. Grant in the Wilderness” by Ryan Longfellow Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · Suggested Reading Commentary By Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor, “Engaging the Civil War” Series On Saturday, July 22, 2017, I stood at the intersection of […]
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CHAPTER FIVE: “The Cresting Tide: Robert E. Lee and the Road to Chancellorsville” by Kristopher D. White Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · Suggested Reading · About the Author Commentary By Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor, “Engaging the Civil War” Series Noah Brooks remembered that May afternoon in vivid detail. “Never as long as I […]
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CHAPTER THREE: “Defeated Victory: Albert Sidney Johnston’s Death at Shiloh” by Gregory A. Mertz Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · Suggested Reading · About the Author Commentary By Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor, “Engaging the Civil War” Series Sunday, April 6, 1862 found Cyrus Boyd six hundred fifty miles but a world away from Indianola, Iowa, […]
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It’s 46° in Spotsylvania County, but the morning clouds have marched away and the blue-sky sun makes it feel more like sixty. To the west, another line of gray clouds hangs over the Blue Ridge Mountains like a haze of forest fire smoke. I’m passing through the Wilderness. By habit, I refer to it as […]
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Turning Pointsof the American Civil WarChris Mackowski andKristopher D. White, editorsForeword by Thomas A. Desjardin “Engaging the Civil War” SeriesSouthern Illinois University Press, 2017Click here for ordering information Contributors to this collection, public historians with experience at Civil War battle sites, examine key shifts in the Civil War and the context surrounding them to show […]
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