The Complete History of the Civil War (Including Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders)
Memoirs, Leadership, Strategy, and Memory of a Nation DividedBy John Esten Cooke, Abraham Lincoln, James Ford Rhodes, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Frank H. Alfriend
Length153h 32m
About this audiobook
The Complete History of the Civil War gathers military narrative, presidential prose, memoir, biography, and retrospective historical interpretation into a capacious account of the conflict that remade the United States. Its varied materials move from battlefield command and political crisis to personal recollection and sectional memory, revealing how the war was narrated by participants as well as later chroniclers. Memoirs of campaigning and command stand beside biographical portraits and documentary reflections, making the volume valuable not as a single seamless history but as a record of competing emphases, loyalties, and literary forms. Its contributors represent strikingly different relationships to the war: political leadership, Union and Confederate military experience, Southern literary commemoration, and postwar professional historiography. Together, these voices situate the collection within the nineteenth-century culture of Civil War remembrance, when testimony, vindication, reconciliation, and historical explanation often overlapped. The juxtaposition of northern and southern perspectives, official authority and personal memory, enriches the reader's sense of how military events acquired enduring cultural meaning. Recommended for students, general readers, and scholars of American history, this volume offers an unusually broad encounter with Civil War interpretation in a single book. Readers will find both an educational survey of the conflict and a stimulating dialogue among divergent styles, memories, and political imaginations.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length153 hrs 32 mins
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Publish dateDec 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Complete History of the Civil War (Including Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders)
26Chapter IX
2CHAPTER I
27Chapter X
3CHAPTER II
28Chapter XI
4CHAPTER III
29Chapter XII
5CHAPTER IV
30Chapter XIII
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6CHAPTER V
31Chapter XIV
7CHAPTER VI
32Chapter XV
8CHAPTER VII
33Chapter XVI
9CHAPTER VIII
34Chapter XVII
10CHAPTER IX
35Chapter XVIII
11CHAPTER X
36Chapter XIX
12CHAPTER XI
37Chapter XX
13CHAPTER XII
38Chapter XXI
14CHAPTER XIII
39Chapter XXII
15CHAPTER XIV
40Chapter XXIII
16Leaders & Commanders of the Union:
41Chapter XXIV
17Abraham Lincoln
42Chapter XXV
18Chapter I
43Chapter XXVI
19Chapter II
44Chapter XXVII
20Chapter III
45Chapter XXVIII
21Chapter IV
46Chapter XXIX
22Chapter V
47Ulysses S. Grant
23Chapter VI
48PREFACE
24Chapter VII
49CHAPTER I ANCESTRY — BIRTH — BOYHOOD
25Chapter VIII
50CHAPTER II WEST POINT — GRADUATION
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