The army of the Potomac trilogy /
A masterpiece of historical storytelling and a landmark of Civil War scholarship, The Army of the Potomac Trilogy offers incisive portraits of the Army's generals. But its true heroes are the rank and file, the men who triumphed despite years of death, hardship and incompetent leadership. While...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Library of America,
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| Series: | Library of America ;
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| Summary: | A masterpiece of historical storytelling and a landmark of Civil War scholarship, The Army of the Potomac Trilogy offers incisive portraits of the Army's generals. But its true heroes are the rank and file, the men who triumphed despite years of death, hardship and incompetent leadership. While painting vivid, still unrivalled depictions of famous battles, the trilogy's groundbreaking achievement is in its quieter passages, recreating the lives of common soldiers, the food they ate, the shelters they built, the songs they sang while thinking of home. Library of America restores the entirety of this essential classic to print in a deluxe, single-volume collector's edition, with full-color endpaper maps, a color insert with battle maps, and an introduction, detailed endnotes and a newly researched chronology of Catton's life and career by Civil War scholar Gary W. Gallagher. Mr. Lincoln's Army (1951) tells the story of the Army of the Potomac's formation under the command of the gifted yet deeply insecure George McClellan and how his conflicts with President Lincoln over military operations and political policy became irreconcilable. The narrative covers the Peninsula Campaign and Second Bull Run, culminating in a brilliant account of Antietam. Glory Road (1952) follows the Army of the Potomac from the nightmarish slaughter at Fredericksburg through the squandered opportunity for victory at Chancellorsville to the epic struggle at Gettysburg, where three days of deadly battle would give President Lincoln the chance to speak "so that the dry bones of the country's dreams could take on flesh." In A Stillness at Appomattox (1953), which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the Army of the Potomac, now under the grimly determined direction of Ulysses S. Grant, engages in a relentless campaign against the Army of Northern Virginia that devastates its own ranks but ultimately forces Robert E. Lee to surrender, giving its survivors their long-sought final victory. |
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| Item Description: | First work originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1951. Second work originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1952. Third work originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1953--Title page verso. Color maps on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | xxvi, 1277 pages : color maps ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781598537253 1598537253 |