Monday, January 22, 2018

In The Review Queue: Turning Points of the American Civil War

Chirs Mackowski &
Christopher D. White, Editors
Foreword by Thomas A. Desgardin

Contributors to this collection, public historians with experience at Civil War battle sites, examine key shifts in the Civil War and the context surrounding them to show that many chains of events caused the course of the war to change: the Federal defeats at First Bull Run and Ball’s Bluff, the wounding of Joseph Johnston at Seven Pines and the Confederate victory at Chancellorsville, the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Federal victory at Vicksburg, Grant’s decision to move on to Richmond rather than retreat from the Wilderness, the naming of John B. Hood as commander of the Army of Tennessee, and the 1864 presidential election. In their conclusion, the editors suggest that the assassination of Abraham Lincoln might have been the war’s final turning point.


About the Author

Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White are co-founders of Emerging Civil War.

Mackowski, a professor of journalism and mass communication at St. Bonaventure University, is the editor in chief of Emerging Civil War, editor of the Engaging the Civil War series, and historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge. He has written or cowritten more than a dozen books on the Civil War.

White, the chief historian of Emerging Civil War, is the education manager at the Civil War Trust. He has cowritten several books with Chris Mackowski, including That Furious Struggle: Chancellorsville and the High Tide of the Confederacy, May 1–5, 1863.

ISBN 978-0809336210, Southern Illinois University Press, © 2017, Paperback, 272 pages, Photographs, Illustrations, Maps, Notes at the end of each essay, and Index. $24.48.  To purchase this book click HERE.

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