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"The second volume in a narrative history of the Civil War traces the personalities and actions leading to the Emancipation Proclamation and the removal of General McClellan as the Union commander."@en
"From the perspective of one hundred years' distance in time, the story of America's most violent internal disorder emerges, illuminating the participants and the events in strong light."@en
"America's foremost Civil War historian recreates the middle years - when a limited political action became an all-out war for freedom."@en
"The second episode in this award-winning trilogy impressively shows how the Union and Confederacy, slowly and inexorably, reconciled themselves to an all-out war'an epic struggle for freedom. In Terrible Swift Sword, Bruce Catton tells the story of the Civil War as never before'of two turning points which changed the scope and meaning of the war. First, he describes how the war slowly but steadily got out of control. This would not be the neat, short, "limited" war both sides had envisioned. And then the author reveals how the sweeping force of all-out conflict changed the war's purpose, in turning it into a war for human freedom. It was not initially a war against slavery. Instead, this was, Mr. Lincoln kept insisting, a fight to reunite the United States. At first, it was not even much of a fight. Cautious generals; inexperienced, incompetent, or jealous administrators; shortages of good people and supplies; excess of both gloom and optimism, kept each side from swinging into decisive action. As the buildup began, there were maddening delays. The earliest engagements were halting and inconclusive. After these first tests at arms, reputations began to crumble. Buell, Halleck, Beauregard Albert Sidney Johnston. Failed to drive ahead'for reasons good and bad. General McClellan (impaled in these pages on the arrogant words of his letters) captured more imaginations than enemies, and continued to accept serious over estimates of Confederate strength while becoming more and more fatally estranged from his own government."

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"The terrible swift sword"
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"Terrible swift sword : the centennial history of the civil war, volume 2"
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"Terrible swift Sword"
"Terrible Swift Sword"
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