Marching To Victory The Second Period Of The War Of The Rebellion Including The Year 1863 Illustrated

Author : Charles Carleton Coffin
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ISBN 13 : 9781330478226
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Marching to Victory written by Charles Carleton Coffin and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Marching to Victory: The Second Period of the War of the Rebellion, Including the Year 1863 "Marching to victory" is the second volume of the series relating to the War of the Rebellion, covering the middle period of the struggle of the people of the United States for the preservation of the Union. It treats of the events of the year 1863 - distinguished by a series of victories to the armies of the Union, of discomfiture to those of the Confederate States. The year began auspiciously for the cause of the Union in the triumph of the Army of the Cumberland on the field of Stone River, in Tennessee. Following the chronological order of events, the beginning of the month of May witnessed the disastrous defeat of the Union Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville, and at the same time the repulse of the Confederates at Suffolk, in Virginia. While these events were transpiring east of the Alleghanies, the Union Army of the Tennessee began a strategic movement which resulted in the victories of Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hills, Big Black River, and the siege of Vicksburg. The achievements of the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg, the Army of the Tennessee at Vicksburg, and the army at Port Hudson on the Mississippi, in midsummer - the severance of the States of Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas from the other States of the Confederacy, rendering co-operation between the sections impossible, by the opening of the great river to commerce, under the protection of the naval forces - marked the culmination of Confederate power. Taken in connection with the situation of affairs in England and France, the events of July were decisive, not only in the struggle for the preservation of the Union, but in the history of civilization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.