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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Confederate Charleston: An Illustrated History of the City and the People During the Civil War (Hardcover)
As an avid fan of the Civil War, Charleston in particular, I've read about 40-50 books and I thought I'd read everything I could. I was wrong. This book alone has so many facts that I had never read and pictures I'd never seen. The author really went into detail about the city that I haven't found in any other book.
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Like Standing on the Battery,
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This review is from: Confederate Charleston: An Illustrated History of the City and the People During the Civil War (Hardcover)
A wonderful book with pictures you will not find elsewhere. Thoroughly enjoyable before and after our trip to Charleston. A great way to prepare, for the Civil War enthusiast who will travel to this, 'time capsule,' city.
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Both Charleston and history deserve better,
This review is from: Confederate Charleston: An Illustrated History of the City and the People During the Civil War (Hardcover)
Mr. Rosen, who passes himself off as a native Charlestonian (after a mere three generations) should stick to practicing law. The book is attractive enough, almost indistinguishable from the Time-Life books that could be its template. It is, unfortunately a politically correct, polemical treatise on Charleston as the cradle of slavery. In lawyerly fashion, facts are cherry-picked, amplified or ignored to drive home the point. Nullification is predictably underplayed. Is this another indoctrinated Southerner who feels he must 'dance naked before his sins' in order the tell his story or does he really believe this stuff? I'm keeping it for the illustrations, otherwise it would be the first book I have ever returned. What a terrible disappointment. I have been to this great city many times, and my own family spilled blood in her defense at Battery Wagner in 1863. The story of Confederate Charleston deserves a far better story-teller than this!
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When Captain George S. James gave the order to fire the first shot of the Civil War, the conflagration that resulted was the culmination of nearly forty years of political feuding and bloodletting; social and religious agitation; and economic, industrial, and commercial revolution. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Morris Island, United States, Fort Moultrie, James Island, New York, Jefferson Davis, Sullivan's Island, General Beauregard, Battery Wagner, President Lincoln, Major Anderson, Abraham Lincoln, Governor Pickens, Institute Hall, Mary Chesnut, Colonel Shaw, Port Royal, Emma Holmes, General Assembly, Fort Johnson, Mills House, Robert Barnwell Rhett, General Gillmore New!
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When Captain George S. James gave the order to fire the first shot of the Civil War, the conflagration that resulted was the culmination of nearly forty years of political feuding and bloodletting; social and religious agitation; and economic, industrial, and commercial revolution. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
party national convention, secession convention Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Morris Island, United States, Fort Moultrie, James Island, New York, Jefferson Davis, Sullivan's Island, General Beauregard, Battery Wagner, President Lincoln, Major Anderson, Abraham Lincoln, Governor Pickens, Institute Hall, Mary Chesnut, Colonel Shaw, Port Royal, Emma Holmes, General Assembly, Fort Johnson, Mills House, Robert Barnwell Rhett, General Gillmore New!
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- Defense of Charleston Harbor by John F. Johnson on 8 pages
- Memoirs of the War of Secession on page 75, page 89, and Back Matter
- Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg on page 153, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861 by Samuel Wylie Crawford on page 44, page 76, and Back Matter
- Civil War (Vol 2) by Shelby Foote on page 99, page 100, and Back Matter
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- Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865 (Women in American History) by Christine Jacobson Carter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life by Theodore Rosengarten in Back Matter
- Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913 by Kthlssn Ann Clrk in Back Matter
- The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (Civil War America) by Alice Fahs on page 123
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