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- catalog abstract "Brothers by blood before the war; brothers in blood after. The blood mingled in the Civil War became the symbol and perverse source of indissoluble union between two sections, two ways of life, two visions of the future, and even two revolutions. In riveting detail yet with broad sweep, veteran Civil war historian Frank E. Vandiver recounts the campaigns and major battles of the first war of the Industrial Revolution, with its machinery, firepower, and engineering beyond imagination. With provocative insight, he traces a picture of the war as rooted in the character and vision of its two leaders and their two sectional revolutions. In the North, Abraham Lincoln built a massive war effort by expanding executive authority, sometimes in ways beyond the Constitution. Not only emancipation, but also new monetary policies, new forms of commercial organization and production, and new ways of raising and commanding armies made a different United States, shaped for world power. In the service of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, a states' righter, became a Confederate nationalist. Keeping up the fight forced him and many Southerners to accept both a centralization and an industrialization they hated. When the dream was lost and the country gone, vestiges of this revolution would make the Southern system compatible with the new economic, social, and political system that had emerged in the North. The South might look back fondly, but it was readier than it knew for what would come: a new union, one and finally indivisible.".
- catalog contributor b3965248.
- catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "Brothers by blood before the war; brothers in blood after. The blood mingled in the Civil War became the symbol and perverse source of indissoluble union between two sections, two ways of life, two visions of the future, and even two revolutions. In riveting detail yet with broad sweep, veteran Civil war historian Frank E. Vandiver recounts the campaigns and major battles of the first war of the Industrial Revolution, with its machinery, firepower, and engineering beyond imagination. With provocative insight, he traces a picture of the war as rooted in the character and vision of its two leaders and their two sectional revolutions. In the North, Abraham Lincoln built a massive war effort by expanding executive authority, sometimes in ways beyond the Constitution. Not only emancipation, but also new monetary policies, new forms of commercial organization and production, and new ways of raising and commanding armies made a different United States, shaped for world power. In the service of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, a states' righter, became a Confederate nationalist. Keeping up the fight forced him and many Southerners to accept both a centralization and an industrialization they hated. When the dream was lost and the country gone, vestiges of this revolution would make the Southern system compatible with the new economic, social, and political system that had emerged in the North. The South might look back fondly, but it was readier than it knew for what would come: a new union, one and finally indivisible.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. One War, Two Revolutions -- Ch. 2. Coming -- Ch. 3. Beginning -- The North -- Ch. 4. The South Responds -- Ch. 5. The Naval Alternative -- Ch. 6. The Western Alternative -- Ch. 7. On to Richmond -- And Back Again -- Ch. 8. The Crucial Center, 1861-62 -- Ch. 9. A Confederate Tide to Gettysburg -- Ch. 10. Vitality at Vicksburg and Chattanooga -- Ch. 11. Into the Wilderness and an Awfull Killing Summer -- Ch. 12. On to History -- Ch. 13. What Kind of War?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-199) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 209 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Blood brothers.".
- catalog identifier "0890965234".
- catalog identifier "0890965242 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Blood brothers.".
- catalog isPartOf "Texas A & M University military history series ; 26".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "College Station : Texas A&M University Press,".
- catalog relation "Blood brothers.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865.".
- catalog subject "973.7 20".
- catalog subject "E468 .V36 1992".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. One War, Two Revolutions -- Ch. 2. Coming -- Ch. 3. Beginning -- The North -- Ch. 4. The South Responds -- Ch. 5. The Naval Alternative -- Ch. 6. The Western Alternative -- Ch. 7. On to Richmond -- And Back Again -- Ch. 8. The Crucial Center, 1861-62 -- Ch. 9. A Confederate Tide to Gettysburg -- Ch. 10. Vitality at Vicksburg and Chattanooga -- Ch. 11. Into the Wilderness and an Awfull Killing Summer -- Ch. 12. On to History -- Ch. 13. What Kind of War?".
- catalog title "Blood brothers : a short history of the Civil War / Frank E. Vandiver.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".