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ENGAGING CIVIL WAR the TURNING POINTS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR Edited by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White Foreword by Thomas A. Desjardin Chris Mackowski and Brian Matthew Jordan, Series Editors A Public-History Initiative of Emerging Civil War and Southern Illinois University Press TURNING POINTS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR b Edited by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White Foreword by Thomas A. Desjardin Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com Copyright © 2018 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University Chapter 2 copyright © 2018 by James A. Morgan III; chapter 6 copyright © 2018 by Daniel T. Davis; chapter 7 copyright © 2018 by Ryan C. Longfellow; chapter 8 copyright © 2018 by Stephen Davis; and chapter 9 copyright © 2018 by Rea Andrew Redd All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 21 20 19 18 4 3 2 1 Cover illustration: High Water Mark monument at Gettysburg National Battlefield. Photo by Chris Mackowski Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Mackowski, Chris, editor, author. | White, Kristopher D., editor, author. Title: Turning points of the American Civil War / edited by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White ; foreword by Thomas A. Desjardin. Description: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2017. | Series: Engaging the Civil War | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017011803 | ISBN 9780809336210 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780809336227 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Campaigns. Classification: LCC E470 .T87 2017 | DDC 973.7/3—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017011803 Printed on recycled paper. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper) Chris: To Vince Kohler and Mark Van Tilburg Kris: To Len and Terry, the best in-laws a guy could ask for b Jointly, we dedicate this book to our colleagues at Emerging Civil War Contents Lists of Illustrations ix Foreword: Gettysburg—The Turning Point of the Civil War? xi Thomas A. Desjardin Acknowledgments xix A Note about Sources xx Introduction 1 Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White 1. Bull Run Editors’ Introduction 6 Confidence Renewed: Surviving Bull Run and the Birth of the Army of the Potomac 10 Robert Orrison 2. Ball’s Bluff Editors’ Introduction 27 Unintended Consequences: Ball’s Bluff and the Rise of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War 30 James A. Morgan 3. Shiloh Editors’ Introduction 50 Defeated Victory: Albert Sidney Johnston’s Death at Shiloh 54 Gregory A. Mertz 4. The Emancipation Proclamation Editors’ Introduction 76 “The Heavyest Blow Yet Given the Confederacy”: The Emancipation Proclamation Changes the Civil War 80 Kevin Pawlak vii viii b Contents 5. Chancellorsville Editors’ Introduction 102 The Cresting Tide: Robert E. Lee and the Road to Chancellorsville 105 Kristopher D. White 6. The Fall of Vicksburg Editors’ Introduction 132 Vicksburg: The Victory That Unleashed Ulysses S. Grant 135 Daniel T. Davis 7. No Turning Back Editors’ Introduction 156 “Oh, I Am Heartily Tired of Hearing about What Lee Is Going to Do”: Ulysses S. Grant in the Wilderness 161 Ryan Longfellow 8. Hood Takes Command of the Army of Tennessee Editors’ Introduction 182 “Far Better in the Present Emergency”: John Bell Hood Replaces Joseph E. Johnston 186 Stephen Davis 9. The Election of 1864 Editors’ Introduction 206 The Point of No Return: Turning Points within the 1864 Presidential Election and the Doom of the Confederacy 211 Rea Andrew Redd Conclusion 231 Chris Mackowski Contributors 239 Index 243 Illustrations Map: Pickett’s Charge xiv Map of Gettysburg by John Bachelder xvi “Copse of Trees” and “High Water Mark” monument at Gettysburg xxiv Stonewall Jackson monument at Manassas 7 “First Battle of Bull Run” 11 Sketch of Uncle Sam, McClellan, and others 19 Sketch of retrieval parties pulling bodies from the Potomac River 28 Death of Colonel Edward D. Baker 31 Map: Battle of Ball’s Bluff 37 Pittsburg Landing 51 “Defeated Victory,” part of the Confederate monument at Shiloh 55 Map: Battle of Shiloh 68 Emancipation Proclamation 77 Lincoln preparing to break the back of the Confederacy 81 Where Stonewall Jackson was wounded during the battle of Chancellorsville 103 Robert E. Lee in the prewar U.S. Army 106 Map: Battle of Seven Pines 109 Map: Battle of Chancellorsville 123 Original surrender monument at Vicksburg 133 Modern surrender marker at Vicksburg 136 Map: Grant’s Attempts at Vicksburg 143 Intersection of Brock and Plank Roads on the Wilderness battlefield 157 Grant ordering troops out of the Wilderness 162 Map: Wilderness Routes of March 166 Map: The Overland Campaign 175 ix
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