American Civil War History Book - de Haan, Auke
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America's great unraveling kicked off in '61 when Fort Sumter's guns barked over Charleston harbor, turning a fractured union into a meat grinder where farm boys swapped plows for muskets, their letters home smudged with dysentery dread. Lincoln's lanky shadow loomed large-emancipation's ink a thunderclap that freed souls but fueled riots in New York alleys, while Davis' graycoats starved on cornbread and cunning in Richmond's rot. It was a war of whispers too: Harriet Tubman's spyglass scouting Combahee raids, freedwomen smuggling scissors through lines to snip their bonds.Battles bled the…mehr

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America's great unraveling kicked off in '61 when Fort Sumter's guns barked over Charleston harbor, turning a fractured union into a meat grinder where farm boys swapped plows for muskets, their letters home smudged with dysentery dread. Lincoln's lanky shadow loomed large-emancipation's ink a thunderclap that freed souls but fueled riots in New York alleys, while Davis' graycoats starved on cornbread and cunning in Richmond's rot. It was a war of whispers too: Harriet Tubman's spyglass scouting Combahee raids, freedwomen smuggling scissors through lines to snip their bonds.Battles bled the map red: Antietam's cornstalks shredded like confetti in the bloodiest dawn, Gettysburg's three-day thunder rolling Pickett's men into eternity's arms, while Sherman's necktie march twisted rails and resolve through Georgia's gut. Grant's hammer at Cold Harbor cracked 7,000 in twenty minutes, a butcher's bill that bought the siege of Petersburg's craters and caves. These weren't chess moves-they were the republic's ribs cracking under slavery's weight, with nurses like Clara Barton staunching the flow amid the maggot feasts.Surrender's hush at Appomattox didn't stitch the seams: Reconstruction's Freedmen's Bureau doled plots from plantation dust, but Redeemer rifles redlined the South into Jim Crow's cage. Veterans swapped stories over brass buttons, monuments rising like scabs over scars that still split the flag. This history's no parade-it's a canteen swig of sweat and spite, proving the war's echo still rattles in every ballot box and barbecue.
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