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1864 : the year of relentless war
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- Creator
- Weider History Group, Inc
- Other Title
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- Eighteen sixty four
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Special collector's edition: 150th anniversary of the Civil War
- Leesburg, VA : Weider History Group, Inc., ©2014
- Physical Details
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- 116 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, photographs (some color) ; 28 cm
- OCLC
- ocn885312758
- Cover title.
- "More than 100 letters, diaries, photos, memoirs paintings and artifacts"--Cover.
- Abundance -- Recycled -- U.S. Grant changes the game : the stubborn, tough Ohioan ushers in a year of ceaseless battle / Harold Holzer -- 1864 hard war : major campaigns : eastern theater -- Preparation -- Coffin -- February 20, 1864 : Black troops shed blood, earn respect -- April 9, 1864 : Fortified by a plug of tobacco -- April 12, 1864 : Fort Pillow gains everlasting notoriety -- April 10, 1864 : Tragedy strikes the Davis family -- May 5-7, 1864 : Soldiers fight in the burning Wilderness -- May 6, 1864 : Friendly fire wounds Longstreet -- May 6, 1864 : The same volley kills a young general -- May 8-21, 1864 : Carnage near a country courthouse -- May 10, 1864 : Sherman's armies move into Georgia -- Valor -- Clean -- June 1-3, 1864 : Lee's army still has plenty of fight -- Sunk -- June 6, 1864 : Shellfire over Petersburg -- Relief -- Mistake -- July 11, 1864 : 'Old Jube' ransoms Maryland towns -- June 23-July 12, 1864 : Rebels march to Washington -- Defiance -- July 22, 1864 : A Georgia prison pen of misery -- July 30, 1864 : Union troops create their own death trap -- July 30, 1864 : Grant laments the Crater debacle -- Passage -- August 9, 1864 : 'Little Phil' takes over -- October 22, 1864 : Two months later, a Rebel defeat -- September 1, 1864 : Sherman takes Atlanta -- November 8, 1864 : Soldiers cast their votes for president -- November 17, 1864 : The South fears Lincoln's reelection -- Paralyzed -- November 25, 1864 : Rebels fire-bomb New York City -- December 3, 1864 : Nearly everyone is dead -- December 8, 1864 : Slaves cruelly denied freedom -- Irresistible -- Confidence -- December 31, 1864 : Dark despair envelops the South
Subjects
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Anniversaries, etc.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Pictorial works.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.