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On April 12, 1861, the first shots were fired in a conflict that would become the bloodiest war to have ever occurred on American soil.It would continue to rage across the states for a further four years.In this Pulitzer Prize winning history of that period James Ford Rhodes fully explains its causes, events and effects.From the moment of secession by the southern states through to Lee’s surrender, Rhodes encompasses the full narrative of the conflict in this single-volume history.Rhodes provides vivid portraits of the main leaders of the war as well as their actions, both on the battlefield and in the political discussions taking place in Washington and Richmond.Rich in scholarship and written in engrossing style History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 is essential reading for anyone with an interest nineteenth century American history."Well worthy of the welcome." — American Historical ReviewJames Ford Rhodes was an American industrialist and historian born in Cleveland, Ohio. After earning a fortune in the iron, coal, and steel industries by 1885, he retired from business and spent the rest of his life writing on the history of America. His most famous work was History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, which won a Pulitzer Prize, and was published in 1917. He died in 1927.

Winner of the 1917 Pulitzer Prize, James Ford Rhodes’ “History of the Civil War, 1861-1865” is a monumental work which details the bloodiest conflict in American history. Highly regarded for its unbiased and thoroughly researched portrayal of the events, opinions, and circumstances that surrounded the Civil War, Rhodes’ “History” stands as a comprehensive summary and analysis of this tumultuous conflict.

On April 12, 1861, the first shots were fired in a conflict that would become the bloodiest war to have ever occurred on American soil. It would continue to rage across the states for a further four years. In this Pulitzer Prize winning history of that period James Ford Rhodes fully explains its causes, events and effects. From the moment of secession by the southern states through to Lee’s surrender, Rhodes encompasses the full narrative of the conflict in this single-volume history. Rhodes provides vivid portraits of the main leaders of the war as well as their actions, both on the battlefield and in the political discussions taking place in Washington and Richmond. Rich in scholarship and written in engrossing style History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 is essential reading for anyone with an interest nineteenth century American history. "Well worthy of the welcome." — American Historical Review James Ford Rhodes was an American industrialist and historian born in Cleveland, Ohio. After earning a fortune in the iron, coal, and steel industries by 1885, he retired from business and spent the rest of his life writing on the history of America. His most famous work was History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, which won a Pulitzer Prize, and was published in 1917. He died in 1927.

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1917, James Ford Rhodes's History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 stands among the essential works in American history. Remarkable for its scholarly research, objectivity and engrossing narrative style, this volume is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding studies — and the first unbiased history — of the Civil War.The book presents a neutral approach to the bloody struggle, neither distorting nor coloring the facts. Rhodes worked methodically, collecting the evidence, considering the opinions of others, and then precisely and lucidly presenting his own conclusions. Distilling material from official military records, diaries, reminiscences, letters, memoirs, newspapers, manuscripts, books, and interviews, the author produced an essential, carefully weighed, and complete account. The critics agreed: "a clear outline of the Civil War . . . it is well worthy of the welcome it has already received." — American Historical Review. " . . . the author's notable faculty of summarizing without leaving out the spirit, the life, and the color of events . . . infuses his narrative with unusual power to re-create the time of which he writes." — The New York Times.While the narrative is neutral, choosing neither villains nor heroes, the ideological direction of Rhodes's work is surprisingly current. In accord with such present-day interpreters of the Civil War period as James McPherson and Ken Burns, Rhodes saw the Civil War as essentially a fight for freedom, and focused upon Abraham Lincoln as the deciding factor in the granting of freedom and the winning of the war.This Dover edition contains a cogent new introduction by John Herbert Roper, Richardson Professor of American History, Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia.

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HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 James Ford Rhodes Chapter I The Great Factor in Destruction of Slavery; Theory of South Carolina; Crittenden Compromise; Southern Confederacy; Lincoln’s Inaugural Address; Seward’s Foreign Policy; Bread for Anderson; Bombardment of Fort Sumter; Rising of the North; Baltimore Riot; The Blockade; Supposed Danger to Washington; The Border States; The Civil War; Unpreparedness; Jefferson Davis; Lincoln; “On to Richmond”; Battle of Bull Run; The President’s Courage Chapter II Congress; Slavery the Cause of the War; Frémont; McClellan; Great Britain’s Action; English Sentiment; Mason and Slidell; English Precedents; Lincoln and Seward; Surrender of Mason and Slidell Chapter III Simon Cameron; Edwin M. Stanton; Fort Donelson; Ulysses S. Grant; McClellan’s Dalliance; Grant and Halleck; Grant and Sherman Surprised at Shiloh; Battle of Shiloh; The Merrimac; McClellan’s Peninsular Campaign; Stonewall Jackson’s Campaign; “The Great Scare”; Battle of Fair Oaks; Robert E. Lee; Battle of Gaines’s Mill; Seven Days’ Battles Chapter IV Legal-Tender Act; Lincoln and Greeley; “Three Hundred Thousand More”; Pope and Halleck; Pope’s Defeat; McClellan Again in Command; Lee’s Invasion of Maryland; Battle of Antietam; Proclamation of Emancipation Chapter V Fall Elections of 1862; Battle of Fredericksburg; Battle of Stone’s River; Battle of Chancellorsville; Effect of Chancellorsville Chapter VI Lee’s Invasion of Pennsylvania; Battle of Gettysburg; Pickett’s Charge; Lee — Meade; Vicksburg Campaign; Grant; Surrender of Vicksburg Chapter VII English Mediation Proposed; Gladstone; Charles Francis Adams; Earl Russell; The Emperor of the French; Chapter VIII Battle of Chickamauga; Battle of Chattanooga; Sherman — Thomas — Sheridan Chapter IX Grant’s Wilderness Campaign; Battle of Cold Harbor; Chattanooga — Atlanta Campaign; Chapter X Lincoln — Grant; Johnston — Hood; Battle of Mobile Bay; Capture of Atlanta; Sheridan Chapter XI Life at the North; —Copperheads; Seymour — Vallandigham; The Northern Governors; Stanton — Lincoln Chapter XII The Age of Iron; Davis — Lincoln Chapter XIII Sherman —Savannah Taken; Battle of Nashville; Thirteenth Amendment; Lee — Jefferson Davis; Chapter XIV Sherman’s March Northward; Evacuation of Richmond; General Lee’s Surrender; Assassination of Lincoln; The End of the War

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This landmark study of the most traumatic era in American history won a Pulitzer Prize in 1918 for its concise, clear-minded survey of the Civil War from political and economic perspectives. From "the great factor in the destruction of slavery"-the election of Abraham Lincoln as President in 1860-to the "twenty thousand men in Wall Street" who sang to celebrate the war's end four years later, Rhodes, a self-taught historian, lends a distinctive voice to his retelling of the war. All students of the upheaval and disorder of the period will appreciate this enduring and unusual perspective on it.

James Ford Rhodes (May 1, 1848 – January 22, 1927), was an American industrialist and historian born in Cleveland, Ohio. After earning a fortune in the iron, coal, and steel industries by 1885, he retired from business. He devoted his life to historical research and publishing a seven-volume history of the United States beginning in 1850; his work was published from 1893-1906. He published an eighth volume in 1920. His work, History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (1918), won the second-ever Pulitzer Prize for History that year.

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This landmark study of the most traumatic era in American history won a Pulitzer Prize in 1918 for its concise, clear-minded survey of the Civil War from political and economic perspectives. From "the great factor in the destruction of slavery"-the election of Abraham Lincoln as President in 1860-to the "twenty thousand men in Wall Street" who sang to celebrate the war's end four years later, Rhodes, a self-taught historian, lends a distinctive voice to his retelling of the war. All students of the upheaval and disorder of the period will appreciate this enduring and unusual perspective on it.