The Civil War in the American West - Softcover

Josephy Jr., Jr. Alvin M. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679740031 ISBN 13: 9780679740032

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993

Synopsis

As most Americans of the 1860s fixed their attention on the battlefields of Shiloh and Manassas, another war raged on the largely unsettled Western frontier. This splendid work by the author of The Patriot Chiefs restores this "other" Civil War to its true, epic proportions. With formidable scholarship and irresistible narrative ease, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., tells of the Yankee armada that foundered in the Louisiana bayous; of the bloody fighting on the ridges and prairies of the border states. where a Cherokee guerrilla leader was the last Confederate general to surrender -- two months after Appomattox: and of the U.S. Army's brutal campaigns against the Plains Indians in theaters as far apart as Minnesota and Colorado.

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"Marvelous, original...that great, adventurous, little-known side of the Civil War...is all here for the first time: the clash of North and South set in the immense space of the West and peopled with some of the most vivid characters of that vivid time." -- David McCullough"Only occasionally does one find such a felicitous pairing of author and subject as in this important new book.... Mr. Josephy again serves justice with his clear-eyed, even-handed scholarship.... The entire era is cast into a different light by this powerfully wrought narrative."

-- The New York Times Book Review

"A sweeping and often surprising account of the untold stories of the war between the states." -- Los Angeles Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679740031
• ISBN 13: 9780679740032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464