This Great Struggle (65 page)
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Authors: Steven Woodworth
On Butler’s Bermuda Hundred Campaign, see William Glenn Robertson’s
Back Door to Richmond: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, April–June
1864
(Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987). On Sigel’s unsuccessful campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, see William C. Davis,
The Battle of New Market
(Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1993).
For two excellent accounts of Early’s raid on Washington, see Benjamin Franklin Cooling’s books,
Jubal Early’s Raid on Washington
(Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007), and
Monocacy: The Battle That Saved Washington
(Shippensburg, PA: White Mane, 1997).
1. Joseph T. Glatthaar,
Partners
in
Command:
The
Relationships
between
Leaders
in
the Civil War
(New York: Free Press, 1994), 153.
2. Brooks D. Simpson,
Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity,
1822–1865
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), 298–99.
3. Jean Edward Smith,
Grant
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 345.
4. Mark Grimsley,
And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May–June
1864.
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), 148.
CHAPTER 11: THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN
On the Atlanta Campaign, see Stephen Davis,
Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions
(Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001), and Richard M. McMurry,
Atlanta
1864:
Last Chance for the Confederacy
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000). On the climactic Battle of Atlanta, see Gary L. Ecelbarger,
The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010). Recent decades have seen the publication of several biographies of Sherman. These include John F. Marszalek,
Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order
(New York: Free Press, 1993); Lee B. Kennett,
Sherman: A Soldier’s Life
(New York: HarperCollins, 2001); Stanley P. Hirshson,
The White Tecumseh: A Biography of General William T. Sherman
(New York: Wiley, 1997); and Steven E. Woodworth,
Sherman
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Craig L. Symonds makes the best case he can for Johnston in his ably researched and written
Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography
(New York: Norton, 1992). On Hood, see Richard M. McMurry,
John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992), and David Coffey,
John Bell Hood and the Struggle for Atlanta
(Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Press, 1998).
On the election campaign of 1864, see John C. Waugh,
Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the
1864
Presidency
(New York: Crown, 1997).
1. Dunbar Rowland, ed.,
Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers, and Speeches
, 10 vols. (Jackson: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1923), 6:295.
2. Wiley Sword,
The
Confederacy’s
Last
Hurrah:
Spring
Hill,
Franklin,
and
Nashville
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993), 32.
3. Arthur Brooks Lapsley, ed.,
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln
, 7 vols. (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1906), 7:152.
CHAPTER 12: LAST CHANCES FOR THE CONFEDERACY
On the Battle of Jonesboro and the final operations around Atlanta, see Stephen Davis,
Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions
(Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2001), and Richard M. McMurry,
Atlanta
1864:
Last Chance for the Confederacy
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000). On the chase and sinking of the CSS
Alabama
and the Battle of Mobile Bay, see Craig L. Symonds,
The Civil War at Sea
(Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2009), and Spencer C. Tucker,
Blue and Gray Navies: The Civil War Afloat
(Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006) and
A Short History of the Civil War at Sea
(Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2002). On Sheridan’s Campaign in the Shenandoah Valley and the Battle of Cedar Creek, see Roy Morris Jr.,
Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan
(New York: Crown, 1992); Thomas A. Lewis,
The Guns of Cedar Creek
(New York: Harper & Row, 1988); and David Coffey,
Sheridan’s Lieutenants: Phil Sheridan, His Generals, and the Final Year of the Civil War
(Lanham, MD: Row-man & Littlefield, 2005).
On the election of 1864, see John C. Waugh,
Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the
1864
Presidency
(New York: Crown, 1997).
On Sherman’s March to the Sea, see Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown,
Sherman’s March in Myth and Memory
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008); Mark Grimsley,
The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians,
1861–1865
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995); Lee Kennett,
Marching through Georgia: The Story of Soldiers and Civilians during Sherman’s Campaign
(New York: HarperCollins, 1995); and Anne J. Bailey,
War and Ruin: William T. Sherman and the Savannah Campaign
(Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2003) and
The Chessboard of War: Sherman and Hood in the Autumn Campaigns of
1864
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000). The last of these also covers Hood’s 1864 Tennessee Campaign. On that campaign, see also Wiley Sword,
Embrace an Angry Wind: The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
(New York: HarperCollins, 1992).
On the Hampton Roads Conference and attempts to open peace negotiations, see Mark Grimsley and Brooks D. Simpson, eds.,
The Collapse of the Confederacy
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001).
1. OR vol. 39, pt. 2, pp. 418–19.
2. William J. Cooper Jr.,
Jefferson
Davis,
American
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000), 513.
CHAPTER 13: “LET US STRIVE ON TO FINISH THE WORK”
On Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign and the burning of Columbia, see John G. Barrett,
Sherman’s March through the Carolinas
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956); Marion B. Lucas,
Sherman and the Burning of Columbia
(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1976); Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr.,
Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996); and Mark L. Bradley,
The Battle of Bentonville: Last Stand in the Carolinas
(Mason City, IA: Savas Publishing, 1996).
On the Confederate decision to enlist black troops, see Robert F. Durden,
The Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972).
On Lincoln’s thought, see Allen C. Guelzo,
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999), and on Lincoln’s speeches, see Ronald C. White Jr.,
The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln through His Words
(New York: Random House, 2005).
On the Appomattox Campaign and other events of April 1865, see Jay Winik,
April
1865:
The Month That Saved America
(New York: HarperCollins, 2001). On Lincoln’s assassination and the search for his killer, see also James L. Swanson,
Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer
(New York: William Morrow, 2006).
1. Both quotations from William J. Cooper Jr.,
Jefferson
Davis,
American
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000), 517–18.
2. Roy P. Basler, ed.,
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
, 9 vols. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953–1955), 8:333.
CHAPTER 14: RECONSTRUCTION
1. Abraham Lincoln, Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment, Washington, D.C., August 18, 1864, Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865, in Roy P. Basler, ed.,
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
, 9 vols. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953–1955), 7:504–5.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steven E. Woodworth
is professor of history at Texas Christian University and author, coauthor, or editor of twenty-seven books. He is a two-time winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award of the New York Civil War Round Table, a two-time finalist for the Peter Seaborg Award of the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War, and a winner of the Grady McWhiney Award of the Dallas Civil War Round Table for lifetime contribution to the study of Civil War history. He is the author, most recently, of
Manifest Destinies: America’s Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War
(2010).
Table of Contents
1 AMERICA’S LONG ROAD TO CIVIL WAR
8 “PEACE DOES NOT APPEAR SO DISTANT AS IT DID”
10 FROM THE RAPIDAN TO THE JAMES TO THE POTOMAC
12 LAST CHANCES FOR THE CONFEDERACY