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title	:	Turning Points of the Civil War
author	:	Rawley, James A.
publisher	:	University of Nebraska Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0803289359
print isbn13	:	9780803289352
ebook isbn13	:	9780585255637
language	:	English
subject	United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
publication date	:	1989
lcc	:	E649.R28 1989eb
ddc	:	973.7
subject	:	United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Page i Turning Points Of The Civil War James A. Rawley New Bison Book Edition

Page ii Copyright 1966 by James A. Rawley Preface to the New Bison Book Edition 1989 by James A. Rawley All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First New Bison Book printing: 1989 Most recent printing indicated by the first digit below: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rawley, James A. Turning points of the Civil War / James A. Rawley.New Bison book ed. p. cm. "A Bison book." Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-8032-8935-9 (alk. paper) 1. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865. I. Title. E649.R28 1989 973.7dc20 89-4873 CIP Reprinted by arrangement with James A. Rawley The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

Page iii For John and James, Jr.

Page iv Acknowledgment The present-day historian inevitably incurs a heavy debt of obligation to other historians and friends of scholarship. My bibliography is one acknowledgment of that debt. In addition I express my thanks to President Anne G. Pannell of Sweet Briar College for granting a year's leave and to Miss Tyler Gemmell and her staff of the Mary Helen Cochran Library at Sweet Briar College for many kindnesses rendered. Special thanks are owing Mr. John Cook Wyllie and his staff of the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia for a year's hospitality. The University of Nebraska has extended favors too numerous to be recorded here. My wife, Ann, alone knows the depth of my obligation to her in the writing of this book. And my sons, to whom this book is dedicated, have throughout the research and writing demonstrated a patience with their abstracted parent above and beyond the call of filial duty.

Page v Contents Preface to the New Bison Book Edition xi Introduction 1 Kentucky and the Borderland 9 Bull Run 47 The Trent Affair 69 Antietam 97 The Emancipation Proclamation 115 The July Days: Gettysburg and Vicksburg 145 The Election of 1864 169 Afterword 205 Bibliography 213 Index 221

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Page xi Preface to the New Bison Book Edition Readers have been kind to this book. First published in 1966, it has enjoyed four printingstwo in cloth and two in paperback; and now the publisher wishes to bring out a fifth printing. Because nearly a quarter of a century has elapsed since I wrote the book, it seems appropriate at this time to look at some aspects of the intervening years. Historians have various opinions about the direction or course of historical development. Some believe history moves in cycles; others believe it moves in a linear fashion, perhaps upward, carrying out the idea of progress. The emphasis of this book is on turning points in history, as described in the Introduction. If I am correctand I may be overly self-conscious about the matterthe concept that history has turning points has gained wider acceptance in these years. The Earl of Birkenhead's book Turning Points in History, though first published in 1930, came to my attention only after its popularity occasioned a reprinting in 1969. Two years later Louis L. Snyder, the eminent scholar at the City University of New York, brought out his Great Turning Points in History. And in 1977 Geoffrey Bruun, best known as a historian of modern Europe, produced a little gem, Turning Points in World History. The Earl of Birkenhead selected twenty topics in history reaching back to ancient times and coming into the twentieth century. Only one of those topics dealt with the history of the United States. This illustrates the idea that turning points may be found in men as well as in forces and events. Birkenhead's American selection was General William T. Sherman. In evaluating the Yankee generalremembered for his ruthless march across Georgia in 1864, severing the southern region of the Confederacy from the Upper South-Birkenhead appraises the significance of the American Civil War. He writes:

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