{"product_id":"the-early-morning-of-war-bull-run-1861-hardback-9780806144986","title":"The Early Morning of War; Bull Run, 1861 (Hardback) 9780806144986","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Early Morning of War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBull Run, 1861\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEdward G. Longacre (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780806144986\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 October 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e648 pages, 30 black \u0026amp; white illustrations, 12 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm, 1.093 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this book, Edward Longacre has applied his considerable skills as a biographer to a vivid piece of American history, injecting humanity and fresh insight to the story of the Civil War's first major battle. Practicing the lost art of personification and characterization with both flourish and wisdom, Longacre makes the players in this immense drama live anew.\"\" - John Hennessy, author of \u003ci\u003eReturn to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Extensively researched and full of fresh insights and information, Edward G. Longacre's finely crafted \u003ci\u003eEarly Morning of War\u003c\/i\u003e offers a remarkably thorough, highly readable account of the men and events that shaped the course of the first great campaign of the American Civil War.\"\" - Ethan S. Rafuse, author of \u003ci\u003eMcClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Manassas: A Battlefield Guide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhen Union and Confederate forces squared off along Bull Run on July 21, 1861, the Federals expected this first major military campaign would bring an early end to the Civil War. But when Confederate troops launched a strong counterattack, both sides realized the war would be longer and costlier than anticipated. First Bull Run, or First Manassas, set the stage for four years of bloody conflict that forever changed the political, social, and economic fabric of the nation. It also introduced the commanders, tactics, and weaponry that would define the American way of war through the turn of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis crucial campaign receives its most complete and comprehensive treatment in Edward G. Longacre's \u003ci\u003eThe Early Morning of War.\u003c\/i\u003e A magisterial work by a veteran historian, \u003ci\u003eThe Early Morning of War\u003c\/i\u003e blends narrative and analysis to convey the full scope of the campaign of First Bull Run - its drama and suspense as well as its practical and tactical underpinnings and ramifications. Also woven throughout are biographical sketches detailing the backgrounds and personalities of the leading commanders and other actors in the unfolding conflict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLongacre has combed previously unpublished primary sources, including correspondence, diaries, and memoirs of more than four hundred participants and observers, from ranking commanders to common soldiers and civilians affected by the fighting. In weighing all the evidence, Longacre finds correctives to long-held theories about campaign strategy and battle tactics and questions sacrosanct beliefs - such as whether the Manassas Gap Railroad was essential to the Confederate victory. Longacre shears away the myths and persuasively examines the long-term repercussions of the Union's defeat at Bull Run, while analyzing whether the Confederates really had a chance of ending the war in July 1861 by seizing Washington, D.C.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant moves, avoidable blunders, accidents, historical forces, personal foibles: all are within Longacre's compass in this deftly written work that is sure to become the standard history of the first, critical campaign of the Civil War.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551742161176,"sku":"9780806144986","price":34.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-early-morning-of-war-bull-run-1861-hardback-9780806144986","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}