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Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863
written by Stephen R. Wise
Studio : University of South Carolina Press
by University of South Carolina Press
Publisher : University of South Carolina Press
Released : 1994-06
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Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780872499850
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 3 reviews)
List Price : $34.95
Our Price : $26.56
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Product Description |
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A graphic recreation of the Civil War battle made famous by the movie Glory. |
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Exceptional Book & Awesome Maps, Details |
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I love this book. As I big civil war history buff, especially with special interest in the Civil War battles around or in Charleston, I love this book and recommended to anyone who wants more information (or I should say who wants specific information). This is a must! |
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Must have book |
If you are a student of history, or a Civil War buff or have an interest in Charleston, then this is the book you have been waiting for.
Very precise and detailed, Dr. Wise writes with a style that makes one believe they are reading a novel rather than a historical account. He brings life to the participants and explains the struggles from both sides.
Too often writers of CW histories either interject their own predjuces or romantasize the events all out of porportion. In this book the author does neither.
The ability to clearly explain the often chaotic events in an easy to understand manner is worth the price of the book alone. I would rate this with the best of works on the CW. |
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A Look at the Campaign for Charleston, SC...1863 |
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Gate of Hell is a decent study of the Union's Campaign for Charleston, SC in 1863. Stephen R. Wise's history adequately describes the many attacks the Union attempted that summer to capture the cradle of the Confederacy. It is a broad overview of the campaign, focusing on the relationships between the army and the navy of the United States as they try to cooperate in reducing one of the most important ports of the Confederacy. Wise does a good job describing the attacks on Morris Island, with special emphasis on the 54th Massachusetts assault on the works of Battery Wagner. However, he seems to spend too much time telling us what type of artillery was used on both sides in all of these assaults, instead of focusing on the soldiers who attacked and who defended. While this book is a good outline for what happened on the sun drenched beaches of South Carolina in the summer of 1863...for the Civil War student, as I am, you are left wanting more. I'm still waiting for a definitive study on the attack led by the 54th, and although Wise's book attempts to describe the action, unfortunately he falls short. Overall a good book if you are only interested in an overview of the campaign. |
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