A House Divided During the Civil War Era

This work is a creative approach to history that not only recounts what actually happened during the Civil War but also imagines alternate outcomes had key events turned out differently and how they might have changed the course of American history colorful readable prose this volume provides a full history of the Civil Warincluding John Brown''s raid; the story of the Confederate States of America; the battles of Bull Run Antietam and Gettysburg; Sherman''s March to the Sea; the Emancipation Proclamation; the Thirteenth Amendment; Lincoln''s assassination; Reconstruction; and Andrew Johnson''s impeachment.But more importantly it offers a range of essays on how events could have turned out differentlymilitarily politically and culturally. It challenges students and general readers alike to remember that the course of history is not preordained. Instead history is made in critical moments of decision by those who choose one course of action over another. Their choicesand the outcomes of those choicescould easily have been different.