Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (James Oakes - BH) Size:Hardcover Like a Meteor Blazing Brightly:

Like a Meteor Blazing Brightly: The Short but Controversial Life of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren

With accessible presentation and fresh interpretations of primary and secondary evidence

commanding Union Army General George Gordon Meade commandeered the farm to serve as his headquarters due to its centrally located position

the 1st Virginia Cavalry

who promoted him in a search for more aggressive cavalry officers

Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (James Oakes - BH) Size:Hardcover Like a Meteor Blazing Brightly:Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861 1865 by James Oakes Winner of the Lincoln Prize "Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and