American Civil War: An English View: The Writings of Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811700933 ISBN 13: 9780811700931

Publisher: Stackpole Books, 2002

Synopsis

Field Marshal Viscount Garnet Joseph Wolseley, born to a well-heeled Dublin family, was assigned in 1861 to service with the British army in Canada. Here he became engrossed by the mounting conflict in the United States and eventually decided to take two months' leave in order to observe the situation firsthand. His writings on the Civil War provide a fascinating and little-presented perspective on America's bloodiest conflict. Editor James Rawley's introductions to each of the book's four pieces (as well as his lengthy one at the beginning of the book) provide the necessary context for a modern reading of Wolseley's essays. Rawley's new preface to this edition revisits Wolseley's writings in the light of the past thirty-five years of Civil War scholarship.

About this title

About the Author:

James Rawley is the Carl Adolph Happold professor-emeritus at the University of Nebraska Lincoln's Department of History.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0811700933
• ISBN 13: 9780811700931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Rawley James