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Since the American Revolution, American have had to fight and die to attain and preserve our land and freedom. The National park System preserves 37 sites where battles took place on U.S. soil. In "America's Battlegrounds, historian Richard Sauers explores these sites and more with a compelling, authoritative text. Beautiful photography, maps, artifacts, and helpful information boxes make this book a valuable resource for travelers, military buffs, and students of American history.
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Pitched as a history and as a guidebook, this thoughtfully put together tour through American war sites takes readers to territories that will be unfamiliar to many. Over five broad chapters, veteran military historian Sauers (Advance the Colors) begins with the American Revolution, hitting sites like the Fort Stanwix National Monument in Rome, N.Y., and Cowpens National Battlefield in Chesness, S.C., with copious color maps, period ephemera and illustrations included along the way. Chapters on the War of 1812, "The Expansion" (i.e., multiple wars with Native Americans) and the Civil War follow suit, with a chapter on "Memorials to Courage" covering foreign wars. The illustrations are a mix of overfamiliar and refreshingly arcane. The terrific sidebars offer a wealth of information on everything from bloody angle's oak tree at Spotsylvania to the life of Sitting Bull. The layout is generic, but the content is anything but: punchy, fact-filled and never boring, Sauers's panorama of American battle covers an enormous amount of ground. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Table of Contents
Introduction | p. 9 |
Chapter 1 The American Revolution | p. 15 |
Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Farmington, Pennsylvania | p. 18 |
Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts | p. 21 |
Moores Creek National Battlefield, Currie, North Carolina | p. 24 |
Fort Stanwix National Monument, Rome, New York | p. 27 |
Saratoga National Historical Park, Stillwater, New York | p. 28 |
Valley Forge National Historical Park, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania | p. 33 |
Kings Mountain National Military Park, Blacksburg, South Carolina | p. 34 |
Cowpens National Battlefield, Chesnee, South Carolina | p. 37 |
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro, North Carolina | p. 38 |
Yorktown National Historical Park, Yorktown, Virginia | p. 41 |
Chapter 2 The War of 1812 | p. 45 |
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, Put-in-Bay, Ohio | p. 48 |
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, Baltimore, Maryland | p. 51 |
USS Constitution, Boston National Historical Park, Boston, Massachusetts | p. 54 |
Chapter 3 The Expansion | p. 57 |
Forts: Sentinels of the Frontier | p. 61 |
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site, Brownsville, Texas | p. 62 |
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site, Cheyenne, Oklahoma | p. 65 |
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Crow Agency, Montana | p. 66 |
Big Hole National Battlefield, Wisdom, Montana | p. 71 |
Chapter 4 The Civil War | p. 73 |
Fort Sumter National Monument, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina | p. 78 |
Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, Virginia | p. 83 |
Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, Republic, Missouri | p. 86 |
Fort Donelson National Battlefield, Dover, Tennessee | p. 89 |
Pea Ridge National Military Park, Pea Ridge, Arkansas | p. 90 |
Shiloh National Military Park, Shiloh, Tennessee | p. 93 |
Fort Pulaski National Monument, Savannah, Georgia | p. 96 |
Richmond National Battlefield Park, Richmond, Virginia | p. 99 |
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland | p. 102 |
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg, Virginia | p. 109 |
Stones River National Battlefield, Murfreesboro, Tennessee | p. 114 |
Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, Mississippi | p. 119 |
Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | p. 122 |
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia | p. 131 |
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Kennesaw, Georgia | p. 135 |
Monocacy National Battlefield, Frederick, Maryland | p. 138 |
Petersburg National Battlefield, Petersburg, Virginia | p. 141 |
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Appomattox, Virginia | p. 144 |
Chapter 5 Memorials to Courage | p. 147 |
USS Arizona Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii | p. 150 |
War in the Pacific National Historical Park, Piti, Guam | p. 155 |
Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC | p. 158 |
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC | p. 161 |
World Trade Center Memorial, New York, New York | p. 162 |