Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War
Published on 21. October 2008
370 pages
978-1-59698-073-0 (ISBN)
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War is a joyful, myth-busting, rebel yell that shatters today's Leftist and demeaning stereotypes about the South and the Civil War.
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H. W. Crocker
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War
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10/2008
Regnery Publishing Inc
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H. W. Crocker IIIis the bestselling author of the prize-winning comic novel The Old Limey, the Custer of the West series, and several historical works, including Triumph, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire, The Yanks Are Coming!, and Robert E. Lee on Leadership. His journalism has appeared in National Review, the American Spectator, Crisis, the National Catholic Register, the Washington Times, and many other outlets. A native of San Diego and educated in California and England, he is married to a former cheerleader and lives in seclusion in the Deep South.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Praise
- Part I - WHY THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT
- Chapter One - A COUNTRY OF THEIR OWN
- Was the war really all about slavery?
- The New Republic
- Chapter Two - THE GUNPOWDER TRAIL
- Abolitionists help abolish the Union
- Lincoln's dilemma
- "Fort Sumter's been fired upon, my regiment leaves at dawn"
- Pride versus power
- Part II - THE HISTORY OF THE WAR IN SIXTEEN BATTLES YOU SHOULD KNOW
- Chapter Three - DIXIE RISING, 1861-1863
- First Manassas (21 July 1861)
- Shiloh (6-7 April 1862)
- The Shenandoah Valley Campaign (1862)
- The Seven Days (25 June to 1 July 1862)
- Second Manassas (28-30 August 1862)
- Sharpsburg (or Antietam) (17 September 1862)
- Fredericksburg (11-13 December 1862)
- Murfreesboro (31 December to 2 January 1862)
- Chancellorsville (1-3 May 1863)
- Vicksburg (29 March to 4 July 1863)
- Gettysburg (1-3 July 1863)
- Chapter Four - THE LONG GOODBYE, 1863-1865
- Chickamauga (18-20 September 1863)
- Chattanooga (24-25 November 1863)
- Atlanta (7 May to 2 September 1864)
- The Virginia Campaign of 1864
- Petersburg and Appomattox (15 June 1864 to 9 April 1865)
- Part III - EMINENT CIVIL WAR GENERALS
- Chapter Five - ROBERT E. LEE (1807-1870)
- The George Washington of the Confederacy
- Action in Mexico
- Peace at West Point, bandits in Texas, slaves at Arlington
- The Crisis
- Chapter Six - GEORGE H. THOMAS (1816-1870)
- A humble general
- No better place to die
- The Rock
- Dealing with Bragg
- Hammer and Anvil: Sherman and Thomas
- Punishing rebels
- Chapter Seven - WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN (1820-1891)
- Sherman's "religion"
- Sherman: The young soldier
- Sherman: Free trade equals war, and so does Democracy
- Early campaigns
- Recovery in battle
- Military governor of Memphis
- Vicksburg
- Chapter Eight - JAMES LONGSTREET (1821-1904)
- A Dutchman among Cavaliers
- From Manassas to Manassas
- "I will kill them all before they reach my line"
- "Longstreet is the man!"
- Longstreet the scalawag
- Chapter Nine - NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST (1821-1877)
- The gunfighter
- The slave trader
- Confederate cavalryman
- "I am going out of this place or bust hell wide open"
- "Ah, Colonel, all is fair in love and war"
- "No damned man shall kill me and live"
- Forrest versus Bragg
- Controversy at Fort Pillow
- Fighting to the end
- Reconstruction's foe
- The Klansman
- Chapter Ten - ULYSSES S. GRANT (1822-1885)
- A horse-loving boy
- At war in Mexico
- Peace but not prosperity
- Return to the colors
- "Unconditional Surrender" Grant
- The road to Appomattox
- From lieutenant general to commander in chief
- Chapter Eleven - THOMAS JONATHAN "STONEWALL" JACKSON(1824-1863)
- From West Point to Mexico
- "Tom Fool" Jackson
- The reluctant secessionist
- Jackson's battles
- "Tom Fool" Jackson becomes "Stonewall" Jackson
- The hero of the valley
- Chancellorsville and death
- Chapter Twelve - A. P. HILL (1825-1865)
- A not-so-reluctant secessionist
- "Always ready for a fight"
- Battles front and rear
- Bloody roads
- Corps commander
- Chapter Thirteen - GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN (1826-1885)
- Apprenticeship in Mexico
- The price of generalship
- The first campaigns
- McClellan as commander
- Citizen McClellan
- Part IV - CALL IN THE CAVALRY
- Chapter Fourteen - A CAVALRY QUARTET: WADE HAMPTON, PHIL SHERIDAN, J. E. B. ...
- Riding with Stuart
- "General Hampton Cannot Be Spared"
- Hampton the Politician
- Sheridan, the Quartermaster and Fighting General
- Grant's Man on Horseback
- Post-War Pugilist
- The Happy Warrior
- Fighting to the End
- The Boy General
- Custer in Command
- Phil Sheridan's Golden Boy
- Part V - BEATING RETREAT
- Chapter Fifteen - WHAT IF THE SOUTH HAD WON?
- Sorry to break the news to you, but Southern Democrats aren't Nazis
- Confederate Cuba? Si!
- AFTERWORD
- NOTES
- INDEX
- Copyright Page
