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The American War Civil Winston Churchill S. The American War Civil DODD, MEAD & COMPANY NEW YORK 1961 Copyright © 1958 by The Right Honourable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, k.g., o.m., c.h., m.p. first published in A History of the English Speaking Peoples: The Great Democracies, 1958. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT PER- MISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NO. 61-15987 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I desire to record my thanks again to Mr F. W. Deakin and Mr G. M. Young fortheir assistance before the Second World War in the preparation of this work; to Professor Asa Briggs of Leeds University, to Mr Maldwyn A. Jones of Manchester University, and to Mr Maurice Shock of University College, Oxford, who have since helped in its completion; and to Mr Alan Hodge, MrDenis Kelly, Mr Anthony Montague Browne and Mr C. C. Wood. I have also to thank many others who have kindly read these pages and commented upon them. For permission to include a quotation from The Oxford History of the United States acknowledgment is due to the Oxford University Press. • v • Contents American Epic I 1 II Slavery and Secession 19 III The Union in Danger 33 IV The Campaign Against Richmond 53 V Lee andMcClellan 74 VI Chancellorsville and Gettysburg 93 VII The Victory of the Union 120 Index 135 vu
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