{"id":260084,"date":"2026-07-13T17:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/fateful-lightning-history-of-the-civil-war-allen-c-guelzo-1\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:26:30","slug":"fateful-lightning-history-of-the-civil-war-allen-c-guelzo-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/fateful-lightning-history-of-the-civil-war-allen-c-guelzo-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Fateful Lightning History Of The Civil War – Allen C Guelzo (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Judson was, of course, telling less then he knew. It might have been more accurate to say that the only shame which the American volunteer of 1861 to 1865 had to endure was that his enemy was another American. 1. Douglas John Cater, As It Was: Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Third Texas Cavalry and the Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry, ed. T. Michael Parrish (Austin, TX: State House Press, 1990), 67\u201368, 69, 173.<\/p>\n

2. Varina Davis Brown, A Colonel at Gettysburg and Spotsylvania: The Life of Colonel Joseph Newton Brown and the Battles of Gettysburg and Spotsylvania (Baltimore, MD: Butternut and Blue, 1988 [1931]), 12; Howell and Elizabeth Purdue, Pat Cleburne: Confederate General (Hillsboro, TX: Hill Jr. College Press, 1973), 74. 3. Jimerson, The Private Civil War, 24\u201325; William C. Davis, The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn\u2019t Go Home (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980), 1, 29, 57.<\/p>\n

4. Ulysses S. Grant, \u201cPersonal Memoirs,\u201d in Memoirs and Selected Letters, ed. M. D. McFeely and W. S. McFeely (New York: Library of America, 1990), 774; Wilbur Fiske, in Warren B. Armstrong, For Courageous Fighting and Confident Dying: Union Chaplains in the Civil War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), 114; Walt Whitman, \u201cAttitude of Foreign Governments During the War,\u201d in The Portable Walt Whitman, ed.<\/p>\n

Mark Van Doren (New York: Viking Press, 1969), 562\u201363. 5. Ezra Munday Hunt, \u201cAbout the War\u201d and \u201cThe Great Union Meeting Held in Indianapolis, February 26th, 1863,\u201d in Union Pamphlets of the Civil War, 1:562, 2:602; Bell I. Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978 [1952]), 39. 6. Edward King Wightman, From Antietam to Fort Fisher: The Civil War Letters of Edward King Wightman, 1862\u20131865, ed. E. G.<\/p>\n

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Guelzo, Allen C. Fateful lightning : a new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction \/ Allen C. Guelzo. p. cm. \u201cFirst edition \u2026 was published as The crisis of the American Republic : a history of the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, St. Martin\u2019s Press, 1994\u201d\u2014T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-19-984328-2 (pbk.) 1. United States\u2014History\u2014Civil War, 1861\u20131865. 2. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865\u20131877) I. Guelzo, Allen C. Crisis of the American republic. II. Title. E468.G85 2012 973.7\u2014dc23 2011041918 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper OceanofPDF.com FOR DEBRA OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS Acknowledgments 1.<\/p>\n

A Nation Announcing Itself 2. The Game of Balances 3. Year of Meteors 4. To War upon Slavery: The East and Emancipation, 1861\u20131862 5. Elusive Victories: East and West, 1862\u20131863 6. The Soldier\u2019s Tale 7. The Manufacture of War 8. The Year That Trembled: East and West, 1863 9.<\/p>\n

World Turned Upside Down 10. Stalemate and Triumph 11. A Dim Shore Ahead Epilogue Further Reading Index OceanofPDF.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In acknowledging the help, encouragement, and support of so many others in the creation of this book, the mere extension of thanks seems but a poor reward for the value of those contributions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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