But the Union's emphasis on Southern deliverance served, ironically, not only to galvanize loyal Amer icans but also to galvanize disloyal ones. To sustain their morale, Northerners played up evidence of white Southern Unionism, of antislavery progress in the slaveholding border states, and of disaffection among Confederates. Over the course of the war, supporters of black freedom built the case that slavery was the obstacle to national reunion and that emancipation would secure military victory and benefit Northern and Southern whites alike. Lincoln's Union coalition sought to deliver the South from slaveholder tyranny and deliver to it the blessings of modern civilization. In Armies of Deliverance, Elizabeth Varon offers both a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. A Fierce Glory is a fresh and vibrant account of an event that had enduring consequences that still resonate today.ĭownload Armies of Deliverance Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle No mere gunfight, Antietam rippled through politics and society, transforming history. And, in fact, the battle's impact extended far beyond the field brilliant and lasting innovations in medicine, photography, and communications were given crucial real-world tests. The Emancipation Proclamation would be the greatest gambit of the nation's most inspired leader.
Antietam represents Lincoln at his finest, as the grief-racked president-struggling with the recent death of his son, Willie-summoned the guile necessary to manage his reluctant general, George McClellan. More than in previous accounts, Lincoln is laced deeply into the story. Martin, an acclaimed writer of narrative nonfiction, renders this landmark event in a revealing new way. Detailed here is the cannon-din and desperation, the horrors and heroes of this monumental battle, one that killed 3,650 soldiers, still the highest single-day toll in American history.
Lincoln needed a victory to save the divided country, but victory would come at a price.
He knew that freeing the slaves would lend renewed energy and lofty purpose to the North's war effort. If the Union prevailed, Lincoln stood ready to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Lee would almost certainly have ended the war on Confederate terms. The South had just launched its first invasion of the North victory for Robert E. The epic battle, fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, was a Civil War turning point. Given the deep divisions that still rive the nation given what unites the country, too, Antietam is more relevant now than ever. America's very future hung on the outcome of a single battle-and the result reverberates to this day. On September 17, 1862, the United States was on the brink, facing a permanent split into two separate nations. Presenting pathbreaking interpretations of Lincoln, Douglas, and the Civil War's origins, Making an Antislavery Nation shows how battles over slavery paved the way for freedom's triumph in America.ĭownload A Fierce Glory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle It justified slavery's destruction but triggered Civil War. Yet Lincoln's framing of the antislavery movement as a conservative return to the country's founding principles masked what was in fact a radical and unprecedented antislavery nationalism. Douglas's attempt in 1854 to persuade Northerners that slavery and freedom had equal national standing stirred a political earthquake that brought Lincoln to the White House. Peck meticulously traces the conflict over slavery in Illinois from the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 to Lincoln's defeat of his arch-rival Stephen A. On this massive political fault line hinged the fate of the nation. Most Northerners supported abolition in the North but condoned slavery in the South, while most Southerners denounced abolition and asserted slavery's compatibility with whites' freedom. From the country's inception, Americans had struggled to define slavery's relationship to freedom. Abraham Lincoln's election as the first antislavery president was hardly preordained. This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the antislavery movement in the United States prior to the Civil War.
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