This Hallowed Ground - Bruce Catton [0]
This Hallowed Ground
Banners at Shenandoah (juvenile)
U. S. Grant and the Military Tradition
A Stillness at Appomattox
Glory Road
Mr. Lincoln’s Army
The War Lords of Washington
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Copyright © 1955, 1956, by Bruce Catton
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eISBN: 978-0-307-94748-2
v3.1
To Nellie Catton
Contents
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
CHAPTER ONE: The Hurricane Comes Later
1. Sowing the Wind
2. Where They Were Bound to Go
3. Light over the Marshes
CHAPTER TWO: Not to Be Ended Quickly
1. Men Who Could Be Led
2. In Time of Revolution
3. The Important First Trick
4. The Rising Shadows
CHAPTER THREE: Men Who Shaped the War
1. The Romantics to the Rescue
2. Trail of the Pathfinder
3. He Must Be Willing to Fight
CHAPTER FOUR: To March to Terrible Music
1. Sambo Was Not Sambo
2. War along the Border
3. Come On, You Volunteers!
4. To the Deep South
CHAPTER FIVE: A Long War Ahead
1. Hardtack in an Empty Hand
2. Springtime of Promise
3. Invitation to General Lee
4. Delusion and Defeat
CHAPTER SIX: Turning Point
1. Kill, Confiscate or Destroy
2. Cheers in the Starlight
3. High-Water Mark
CHAPTER SEVEN: I See No End
1. The Best There Was in the Ranch
2. There Was No Patience
3. Thin Moon and Cold Mist
4. Down the River
CHAPTER EIGHT: Swing of the Pendulum
1. The Hour of Darkness
2. Stalemate in the Swamps
3. The Face of the Enemy
4. End of a Campaign
CHAPTER NINE: The Trees and the River
1. Final Miscalculation
2 Moment of Truth
3. Unvexed to the Sea
CHAPTER TEN: Last of the Might-Have-Beens
1. Pursuit in Tennessee
2. Ghoul-Haunted Woodland
3. The Pride of Soldiers
4. A Half Dozen Roasted Acorns
CHAPTER ELEVEN: And Keep Moving On
1. Year of Jubilo
2. Vote of Confidence
3. The Great Decision
4. A Question of Time
CHAPTER TWELVE: We Will Not Cease
1. That Bright Particular Star
2. Wind across the Sky
3. The Grapes of Wrath
4. The Enemy Will Be Attacked
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Twilight and Victory
1. Reap the Whirlwind
2. The Fire and the Night
3. Telegram in Cipher
4. Candlelight
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LIST OF MAPS
First and Second Bull Run
Shiloh
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge
Chapter One
THE HURRICANE COMES LATER
1. Sowing the Wind
THE senator was tall and handsome, with wavy hair to frame a proud ravaged face, and if hearty feeding had given him the beginning of a notable paunch he was erect enough to carry it well. He had the easy grace of a practiced orator — his speeches, according to spiteful enemies, were carefully rehearsed night after night before a mirror in his chambers, while an awed colored boy stood by with a lighted candle — and there was a great humorless arrogance about him, for he had never been blessed with a moment of self-doubt. He liked to say that he was in morals, not in politics. From this the logical deduction was that people who opposed him, numerous though they undoubtedly were, must be willfully wrong.
Such a deduction Senator Charles Sumner was quite capable of drawing for himself. He would draw it today in the Senate chamber. In his speech, he had told a friend, he would “pronounce the most thorough philippic ever uttered in a legislative chamber.”
It was an ominous promise. The date was May 19, 1856, and although there was still a little time left it was running out fast, and angry