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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.738
EAN num: 9780275973346
ISBN number: 0275973344
Label: Praeger Trade
Manufacturer: Praeger Trade
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: September 30, 2001
Publishing house: Praeger Trade
Sale Popularity Level: 1360712
Studio: Praeger Trade
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On April 9, 1865, while Robert E. Lee's army surrendered at Appomattox, the last major battle of the Civil War was being waged in Alabama. The Federal campaign against Mobile, the last important Southern city still in Rebel hands, involved 45,000 Union soldiers and 9,000 Confederates. Even with the end of the war clearly at hand, Federal soldiers remained willing to fight, and the Rebels unwilling to surrender. O'Brien provides the very first comprehensive treatment of the campaign in over 130 years.
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Mobile 1865 is probably the best book on the Mobile campaign but leaves something to be desired. A glaring omission is the maps. No Civil War history should be without helpful maps to visualize the text, but there is only three period drawings of the defences-not very helpful. The author also goes into a little too much detail on each unit's prior history and their commanders. This causes the book to not really become interesting until the real action starts after about 100 pages. It was also a little irritating that the author uses the common, politically correct view of grey troops. In the chapter he devotes to grey units his account of their actions are misleading and too generous. Still, there is little literature on the Mobile campaign and this book details the actions and the campaign as a whole fairly well. It's probbly the best book on the subject but the definitive history of the campaign is yet to be written.
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