War to the Knife

Thomas Goodrich

ISBN 10: 0811737365 / ISBN 13: 9780811737364

Verlag: Stackpole Books Mär 2018, 2018

Beschreibung

Neuware - Marching armies, cavalry raids, guerilla warfare, massacres, towns and farms in flames the American Civil War, 1861-1865 No Kansas, 1854-1861. Before there was Bull Run or Gettysburg, there was Black Jack and Osawatomie. Long before events at Fort Sumter ignited the War Between the States, men fought and died on the Prairies of Kansas over the incendiary issue of slavery. "War to the knife and knife to the hilt," cried the Atchison Squatter Sovereign. " Let the watchword be Extermination, total and complete. "In 1854 a shooting war developed between proslavery men in Missouri and free-staters in Kansas over control of the territory. The prize was whether it would be a slave or free state when admitted to the Union, a question that could decide the balance of power in Washington. Told in the unforgettable words of the men and women involved, War to the Knife is an absorbing account of a bloody episode soon spread east, events in "Bleeding Kansas" have largely been forgotten. But as historian Thomas Goodrich reveals in this compelling saga, what America s "first civil war" lacked in numbers it more than made up for in ferocity.> Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman, Sara Robinson, Jeb Stuart, Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley, Julia Lovejoy, William F. Cody. These and more step forward to tell their tale. And casting his long, dark shadow over al is the strange, haunting figure of John Brown hailed as a prophet by some, denounced as a madman by others.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780811737364

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: War to the Knife
• Verlag: Stackpole Books Mär 2018
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0811737365
• ISBN-13: 9780811737364
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 225B x 151 H x 22 T Millimeter Breite: 225 mm, Höhe: 151 mm, Tiefe: 22 mm
• Gewicht: 428 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Marching armies, cavalry raids, guerilla warfare, massacres, towns and farms in flames-the American Civil War, 1861-1865? No-Kansas, 1854-1861. Before there was Bull Run or Gettysburg, there was Black Jack and Osawatomie. Long before events at Fort Sumter ignited the War Between the States, men fought and died on the Prairies of Kansas over the incendiary issue of slavery. "War to the knife and knife to the hilt," cried the Atchison Squatter Sovereign. " Let the watchword be 'Extermination, total and complete.'" In 1854 a shooting war developed between proslavery men in Missouri and free-staters in Kansas over control of the territory. The prize was whether it would be a slave or free state when admitted to the Union, a question that could decide the balance of power in Washington. Told in the unforgettable words of the men and women involved, War to the Knife is an absorbing account of a bloody episode soon spread east, events in "Bleeding Kansas" have largely been forgotten. But as historian Thomas Goodrich reveals in this compelling saga, what America's "first civil war" lacked in numbers it more than made up for in ferocity. War to the Knife is a riveting story of blood, fire, and death. It is also a story with an impressive cast of characters: Robert E> Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman, Sara Robinson, Jeb Stuart, Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley, Julia Lovejoy, William F. Cody. These and more step forward to tell their tale. And casting his long, dark shadow over al is the strange, haunting figure of John Brown-hailed as a prophet by some, denounced as a madman by others.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas Goodrich is a professional writer whose focus is the American West. He is also author of "The Day Dixie Died: The Occupied South, 1864-1866," "War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861," and co-author of "Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerilla."