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A gripping, comprehensive account of the Civil War, including eyewitness testimony, profiles of key personalities, period photographs, illustrations and artifacts, and detailed battle maps. Fully researched, superbly written.Tags
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William C. Davis is a retired history professor who taught at Virginia Tech. An acclaimed expert on the Civil War, he has served on a number of advisory boards, including the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission; the American Battlefield Trust; the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg, Virginia; the National Park Service; and show more the Lincoln Prize and Pulitzer Prize nominating juries. show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Brother against Brother
- Original publication date
- 1983
- People/Characters
- John Quincy Adams; Louis Agassiz; Edward Porter Alexander (as E. Porter Alexander); Richard Anderson (father of Robert Anderson); Robert Anderson; Robert H. Anderson (show all 217); David R. Atchison; Edward Bates; Thomas C. Baylor; Francis Beach; P. G. T. Beauregard; Henry Ward Beecher; John Bell; August Belmont; Thomas Hart Benton; Thomas J. Berry; George Caleb Bingham; James G. Birney; Jeremiah Black; Montgomery Blair; John Wilkes Booth; John Cabell Breckinridge; Preston Brooks (as Preston S. Brooks); John Brown, abolitionist; Oliver Brown; Watson Brown; James Buchanan; Don Carlos Buell; Charles Calistus Burleigh; Anthony Burns; Andrew P. Butler; John C. Calhoun; Simon Cameron; John A. Campbell; John Carmody; Maria Weston Chapman; Salmon P. Chase; James Chesnut, Jr.; Mary Boykin Chesnut; James Chester; James A. Chisholm; Ira W. Chaflin; John B. Clark; Cassius Marcellus Clay; Henry Clay; Howell Cobb; Samuel Colt; Aurelius F. Cone; Edward J. Conner; Joseph S. Conrad; Ellen Craft; William Craft; Samuel W. Crawford; John J. Crittenden; George E. Cunningham; George Cuthbert; Francis Cutting; David Davis; Jefferson Davis; Jefferson C. Davis; Varina Howell Davis; William L. Dayton; Delia (slave); Charles Dickens (quotation about elections); Augustus Dickert; Jeremiah Dixon; Abner Doubleday; Stephen A. Douglas; Frederick Douglass; James Doyle; J. H. Elliott; John Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry S. Farley; Charles E. Farrand; Fassena (slave); Samuel S. Ferguson; Millard Fillmore; Oliver H. Fish; John B. Floyd; Hugh Forbes; J. G. Foster; Gustavus Vasa Fox (as Gustavus V. Fox); John Charles Frémont; Margaret Garner; William Lloyd Garrison; John W. Geary; Joshua R. Giddings (as Joshua Giddings); Thomas Gray; Horace Greeley; John P. Hale; Norman J. Hall; James Henry Hammond; James Harris; Peter Hart; George E. Haynsworth; Hinton Helper; Josiah Henson; Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Emma Holmes; George W. Holt; Joseph Holt; Daniel Hough; Samuel G. Howe (as Samuel Gridley Howe); Jack (slave); Andrew Jackson; Stonewall Jackson; George S. James; David F. Jamison; Thomas Jefferson; Samuel Jones; George A. Kensel; Manning M. Kimmel; James Lane; Amos Lawrence; Robert E. Lee; Stephen D. Lee; Thomas J. Lee; Abraham Lincoln; Arthur Livermore; John A. Logan; T. B. M'Cormick; Ben McCulloch; John McLean; Henry C. McNeill; John T. Magruder; Stephen R. Mallory; John S. Marmaduke; Charles Mason; Richard K. Meade; Herman Melville; Christopher Memminger; William Porcher Miles; Charles H. Morgan; Lucretia Mott; Dangerfield Newby; Michael P. O'Connor; John C. Palfrey; Richard Parker; Theodore Parker; Lafayette Peck; Louis Petigru; Wendell Phillips; Francis Pickens; Franklin Pierce; James Knox Polk (quotation about the American government); Roger Pryor; Haldimand Putnam; Paul J. Quattlebaum; Andrew Reeder; Charles Lenox Remond; Marcus A. Reno; Renty (slave); Robert Barnwell Rhett, Jr.; Robert Barnwell Rhett, Sr.; Henry M. Robert; Augustus G. Robinson; Charles Robinson; Edmund Ruffin; George Ryan; Franklin B. Sanborn; Dred Scott; Winfield Scott; William Henry Seward; Truman Seymour; Wilson Shannon; Bill Sherman ('Dutch'); Henry Sherman ('Dutch'); John Sherman; William Sinclair; O. R. Singleton; Adam Slemmer; Gerrit Smith; J. L. Kirby Smith; William P. Smith; George W. Snyder; Sojourner Truth; Edwin M. Stanton; George L. Stearns; Alexander H. Stephens; Harriet Beecher Stowe; George C. Strong; J. E. B. Stuart; Charles Sumner (as Charles S. Sumner); Theodore Talbot; James Tallmadge; Roger Brooke Taney; Zachary Taylor; Lorenzo Thomas; Jacob Thompson; Robert Toombs; Harriet Tubman; Nat Turner; David E. Twiggs; John Tyler; William Upham; Charles J. Walker; Jonathan Walker; Leroy Pope Walker; Robert J. Walker; Edward R. Warner; Lewis Washington; William Waud; Mary Webb; Daniel Webster; Thurlow Weed; George H. Weeks; Eli Whitney; John Greenleaf Whittier; Louis T. Wigfall; Abram C. Wildrick; Fred Wilkins; Allen Wilkinson; David Wilmot; Henry Wilson; Henry A. Wise; William Lowndes Yancey (as William L. Yancey)
- Important places
- Acushnet River, Massachusetts, USA; Albany, New York, USA; Alton, Illinois, USA; Arkansas, USA; Athens, Georgia, USA; Augusta, Georgia, USA (show all 93); Barnum's American Museum, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA; Bloomington, Illinois, USA; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; California, USA; Castle Pinckney, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA; Charles Town, Virginia, USA; Charleston, Illinois, USA; Charleston, South Carolina, USA; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Columbia, South Carolina, USA; Connecticut, USA; Cummings Point, South Carolina, USA; Delaware, USA; East Chatham, New York, USA; Eaton, Ohio, USA; Fort Barrancas, Florida, USA; Fort Johnson, Charleston, South Carolina, USA; Fort Massachusetts, Mississippi, USA; Fort Monroe, Virginia, USA; Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, USA; Fort Pickens, Santa Rosa Island, Florida, USA; Fort Pulaski, Georgia, USA; Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA; Fort Taylor, Florida, USA; Freeport, Illinois, USA; Galesburg, Illinois, USA; University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA; Hartford, Connecticut, USA; Huntsville, Alabama, USA; Indiana, USA; James Island, South Carolina, USA; Jonesboro, Illinois, USA; Kentucky, USA; Key West, Florida, USA; Lawrence, Kansas, USA; Liberia; Louisiana, USA; Louisville, Kentucky, USA; Maine, USA; Maryland, USA; Massachusetts, USA; Mexico; Minnesota, USA; Mississippi, USA; Mississippi River, USA; Missouri, USA; Mohawk, New York, USA; Montgomery, Alabama, USA; Morris Island, South Carolina, USA; Moultrieville, South Carolina, USA; Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Nebraska, USA; New Mexico, USA; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; New York, New York, USA; Newport, Indiana, USA; North Carolina, USA; Oconee River, Georgia, USA; Osawatomie, Kansas, USA; Ottawa, Illinois, USA; Pennsylvania, USA; Pensacola, Florida, USA; Pensacola Bay, Florida, USA; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Quincy, Illinois, USA; Richmond, Virginia, USA; Ripon, Wisconsin, USA; Rochester, New York, USA; San Antonio, Texas, USA; St. Paul, Minnesota, USA; Sangamon County, Illinois, USA; Santa Rosa Island, Florida, USA; Savannah, Georgia, USA; Ship Island; South Carolina, USA; Springfield, Illinois, USA; Springfield, Massachusetts, USA; Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, USA; Syracuse, New York, USA; Tabor, Iowa, USA; Tennessee, USA; Virginia, USA; Wakarusa River, Kansas, USA; Washington, D.C., USA
- Important events
- Missouri Compromise (1820); Mexican-American War (1846 | 1848); Compromise of 1850 (1850); Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854); Dred Scott Decision (1857); John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859) (show all 8); Secession Crisis (1860 | 1861); American Civil War (1861 | 1865)
- First words
- "The Southern people, driven to the wall, have no remedy but that of political independence. Forbearance has not only ceased to be a virtue, but has become absolute cowardice."
- NEW ORLEANS DAILY CRESCENT, D... (show all)ecember 17, 1860
Nothing could keep Edmund Ruffin away from the secession convention. - Quotations
- Virginia's Tidewater planters tended to be Episcopalians. According to an old local saying, there were many ways to go to heaven, but a gentleman would choose the Episcopalian way.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"We are not enemies, but friends," Abraham Lincoln had told his countrymen, imploring them to listen to "the better angels of our nature" and remain friends. But those angels could no longer be of help, for now the Confederates and the Yankees were mortal enemies.
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 973.7 — History & geography History of North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil War
- LCC
- E459 .D265 — History of the United States United States Civil War period, 1861-1865 Lincoln's administrations, 1861-April 15, 1865
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 5
