In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (Valley of the Shadow Project)

Type

Book

Authors

Edward L. Ayers

ISBN 10

0393057860

ISBN 13

9780393057867

Tags

Campaigns & Battlefields, State & Local

Description

Many histories of the American Civil War tell of the triumph of the dynamic, free-labour North over the traditional, slave-based South, vindicating the freedom principles built on the nation's foundations. Edward L. Ayers tells a different story of the war on an intimate scale. He charts the descent into war in the Great Valleyt spanning Pennsylvania and Virginia. Connected by strong ties of every kind, the people of this borderland sought alternatives to secession and war. It came to their doorsteps in hunger, disease and death. It ends with the valley ravaged, Lincoln's support fragmenting and Confederate forces massing at Gettysburg. - from Amzon

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