Twenty-three Stories By Ambrose Bierce, Consisting Of Nine Civil War Stories, Ten Horror Stories, And Four Tall Tales.

From The American Battlefield Trust Comes The Collection Of Their Popular Maps Of The Eastern Theater Of The American Civil War. “i Just Love Those Maps That You Guys Send To Me.” It Is A Phrase That The Staff Of The American Battlefield Trust Hears On A Weekly Basis. The Expression Refers To One Of The Cornerstone Initiatives Of The Organization—mapping The Battlefields Of The Revolutionary War, War Of 1812, And The American Civil War. The American Battlefield Trust Is The Premier Battlefield Preservation Organization In The United States. Over The Last Thirty Years, The American Battlefield Trust And Its Members Have Preserved More Than 52,000 Acres Of Battlefield Land Across 143 Battlefields In Twenty-four States—at Sites Such As Antietam, Vicksburg, Chancellorsville, Shiloh, And Gettysburg. Outside Of Physically Walking Across The Hallowed Battle Grounds That The American Battlefield Trust Preserves, The Best Way To Illustrate The Importance Of The Parcels Of Land That They Preserve Is Through Their Battle Maps. Through The Decades, The American Battlefield Trust Has Created Dozens Of Maps Detailing The Action Of Hundreds Of Battles. Now, For The First Time In Book Form, They Have Collected The Maps Of Some Of The Most Iconic Battles Of The Eastern Theater Of The Civil War Into One Volume. From First Bull Run To The Surrender At Appomattox Court House, You Can Follow The Major Actions Of The Eastern Theater From Start To Finish Utilizing This Unparalleled Collection.

In The Century And A Half Since The Civil War, Both Private And Public Entities, Have Earnestly Sought To Safeguard The Legacy Of That Seismic Conflict Through The Preservation Of Its Battlefields. In Altogether Fitting And Proper, Timothy B. Smith Provides The Most Comprehensive Synthesis Ever Written Of The Long History Of Those Preservation Efforts. Smith Traces The Story Of Battlefield Park Establishment From The War And The Reconstruction Era Through The Golden Age Of Preservation At The Turn Of The Century, To The New Deal Period And Well Beyond. While Smith's Primary Focus Is On The Famous National Parks, He Also Examines The Endeavors Of State And Local Governments, As Well As An Assortment Of Private Organizations, To Establish Parks And Monuments For Lesser-known Battle Sites. The Ongoing Conflicts Between Preservationists And Commercial Developers Form Another Key Element Of The Narrative. As Smith Makes Clear, The Story Of Battlefield Preservation Is In Many Ways A Story Of People - From Civil War Veterans Like Henry Boynton, The Medal Of Honor Winner Who Oversaw The Development Of The First National Military Park At Chickamauga, To Jim Lighthizer, The President Of The Civil War Trust, The Private Charitable Organization Spearheading The Twenty-first-century Preservation Movement. In Their Dedication To This Cause, Such Individuals And The Groups They Represent Have Kept A Central Event In American History Alive In Our Collective Memory. -- From Back Cover.

In The Seventy-three Succinct Essays Gathered In The Enduring Civil War, Celebrated Historian Gary W. Gallagher Highlights The Complexity And Richness Of The War, From Its Origins To Its Memory, As Topics For Study, Contemplation, And Dispute. He Places Contemporary Understanding Of The Civil War, Both Academic And General, In Conversation With Testimony From Those In The Union And The Confederacy Who Experienced And Described It, Investigating How Mid-nineteenth-century Perceptions Align With, Or Deviate From, Current Ideas Regarding The Origins, Conduct, And Aftermath Of The War. The Tension Between History And Memory Forms A Theme Throughout The Essays, Underscoring How Later Perceptions About The War Often Took Precedence Over Historical Reality In The Minds Of Many Americans. The Array Of Topics Gallagher Addresses Is Striking. He Examines Notable Books And Authors, Both Union And Confederate, Military And Civilian, Famous And Lesser Known. He Discusses Historians Who, Though Their Names Have Receded With Time, Produced Works That Remain Pertinent In Terms Of Analysis Or Information. He Comments On Conventional Interpretations Of Events And Personalities, Challenging, Among Other Things, Commonly Held Notions About Gettysburg And Vicksburg As Decisive Turning Points, Ulysses S. Grant As A General Who Profligately Wasted Union Manpower, The Gettysburg Address As A Watershed That Turned The War From A Fight For Union Into One For Union And Emancipation, And Robert E. Lee As An Old-fashioned General Ill-suited To Waging A Modern Mid-nineteenth-century War. Gallagher Interrogates Recent Scholarly Trends On The Evolving Nature Of Civil War Studies, Addressing Crucial Questions About Chronology, History, Memory, And The New Revisionist Literature. The Format Of This Provocative And Timely Collection Lends Itself To Sampling, And Readers Might Start In Any Of The Subject Groupings And Go Where Their Interests Take Them.

This Book Examines The Foundational Role Of Deliberate Misrepresentation In Various Elements Of White Supremist Lost Cause Mythology, From Confederate Soldiers' Military Prowess, Loyalty, Motivation, And Unity, To Mythical Black Confederates, To The Evolution Of Lost Cause Myths To Support Present-day White Supremacy. It Adds To The Understanding Of The Memory And Reality Of The American Civil War As American Society Debates Historical Monuments And Sees The Mainstream Rise Of Emboldened White Supremacist Political Groups--

Preface To The 2018 Edition -- Written In Stone -- Introduction -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments. Sanford Levinson. Includes Bibliographical References.

The 1890s, argues Timothy B. Smith in his new book, represented the climax of battlefield preservation in America. But what makes this decade so important?   This decade was the perfect time for the establishment of these national parks. Five Civil War battlegrounds—at Gettysburg, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Shiloh, Antietam, and Vicksburg—were commemorated as national sites during this time. Just past the bitterness and racial tensions of Reconstruction and prior to the explosive growth brought on by the Second Industrial Revolution, the time was right for the war's veterans from both sides to come together, in a spirit of reconciliation and brotherhood, to lead the efforts to open the parks. As yet unmarred by development, these battlefield sites were preserved mostly intact, just how the veterans would have remembered them. To date, they represent the country's finest preserved battlefields. Smith's book is the first to look at the process of battlefield reservation as a whole.  He focuses on how each of these sites was established and the important individuals—the congressmen, the former soldiers, the veteran commissioners—who were the catalysts for the creation of these parks.   The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation is a watershed book about an essential period in the history of battlefield preservation and will be of interest to any reader who wishes to have a better understanding how such preservation efforts were initiated.   Timothy B. Smith is the author of This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park and The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield.  He is a former park ranger at the Shiloh National Military Park and now teaches at the University of Tennessee at Martin.