Recollections of the Civil War Paperback / softback - 1996
by Charles A. Dana
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- Title Recollections of the Civil War
- Author Charles A. Dana
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-04-01
- Features Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780803266018
- ISBN 9780803266018 / 0803266014
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.27 x 0.76 in (20.47 x 13.39 x 1.93 cm)
- Reading level 1240
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Topical: Civil War
- Library of Congress subjects United States - History - Civil War,, United States - History - Civil War,
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95050715
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.73
From the rear cover
Early in 1863 General Grant was under a cloud, blamed for heavy Union losses at Shiloh, called an undependable drunkard by his detractors. As Grant moved toward Vicksburg, the Lincoln administration needed to know more about what was happening in the remote western theater. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton dispatched a respected newspaperman. Charles A. Dana, ostensibly to straighten out payroll matters but actually to observe Grant and the situation in the army and report back daily. Dana became "the government's eyes at the front". Recollections of the Civil War, drawing largely on his reports and originally published in 1898, is a classic to rank with Grant's Personal Memoirs (also available in a Bison Books edition). Dana's candid assessment of Grant, other officers, and campaign operations carried weight with Lincoln and Stanton and undoubtedly influenced the course of the war. In these pages, Dana is with Grant and General Sherman throughout the siege of Vicksburg, riding into the city "at the side of the conqueror". Later he is with Grant at Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. He is with General Roseerans at Chickamauga; he watches General Sheridan's troops scale Missionary Ridge at Chattanooga; he walks through the ruins of Richmond; he attends Lincoln on his deathbed. Finally, he sees Jefferson Davis in chains at Fortress Monroe.