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THE CIVIL WAR by FREDERIC L PAXSON. HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1911.

FREDERIC L. PAXSON Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER IN HISTORY 1925. He had undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's from Harvard University. He taught at Wisconsin (1910 to 1932) as successor to Frederick Jackson Turner and at the University of California-Berkeley from 1932 to 1947.

As a historian, he was an authority on the American frontier.

(Wikipedia)

Narrated by Joseph Tabler

Audio copyright 2024

From the Author's Preface:

This book attempts to show that the Civil War was more than a succession of battles; it was a struggle between two civilizations... The motive for secession, slavery, was indefensible in the long run...It is reasonably clear today, that the South would have discarded slavery in another generation; and that the New Nationalism would have come about without the Civil War. Yet the war dominated the American mind for forty years and is worthy of study if only on this account.

CHAPTER

I The Law of the Land

II Secession

III Abraham Lincoln

IV Civil War

V Afloat and Abroad

VI 1862: McClellan and Emancipation

VII 1862: The Mississippi Valley

VIII Ulysses S. Grant

IX Gettysburg and Reconstruction

X The Balance of Power

XI The Union Party

XII The Confederate Collapse

Audio cover picture—Book's cover picture General Grant at City Point—Library of Congress.

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