James A. Morgan

Six Miles from Charleston, Five Minutes to Hell (eBook, ePUB)

The Battle of Seccessionville, June 16, 1862

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive account of this bitterly fought yet unjustly forgotten early conflict of the Civil War. The small, curiously named village of Secessionville, just outside of Charleston, South Carolina was the site of an early war skirmish, the consequences of which might have been enormous had the outcome been different. But the Confederate victory was quickly overshadowed by the Seven Days battles, fought shortly afterward and far to the north. The Battle of Secessionville was as bloody and hard fought as any similar sized encounter during the war. But it was poorly planned and poorly led by the Union commanders whose behavior did not do justice to the courage of their men. In Six Miles from Charleston, Five Minutes to Hell, historian Jim Morgan examines the lead up to the conflict, the skirmish itself on June 16, 1862, and its aftermath. By including several original sources not previously explored, he takes a fresh look at this small, but potentially game-changing fight, and shows that it was of much more than merely local interest at the time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Savas Beatie
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611216028
• Artikelnr.: 70131059

Autorenporträt

Jim Morgan is a co-founder and past president of the Fort Sumter Civil War Round Table in Charleston, SC. He is a member of the board of the Fort Sumter-Fort Moultrie Historical Trust. He also is a past president of the Loudoun County Civil War Roundtable in Leesburg, VA, and was a co-founder and chairman of the Friends of Ball's Bluff. His previous work includes a tactical study of Ball's Bluff titled A Little Short of Boats: The Battles of Ball's Bluff and Edwards Ferry and a chapter on the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War for ECW's Turning Points of the Civil War. He also has written for Civil War Times, America's Civil War, The Artilleryman, Blue & Gray, and other periodicals. Retired in 2014 from the State Department, Jim spends much of his time as a National Park Service volunteer at Forts Sumter and Moultrie.