#Battle cry of freedom union series#
(The most recent volume in the series - Gordon Wood’s widely acclaimed Empire of Liberty - is #35,601 as of this morning.)įor the 25th anniversary, McPherson has been interviewed by journalist Marc Wortman (also the author of a history of Sherman’s siege of Atlanta) for The Daily Beast.
Battle Cry was the second volume in the Oxford History of the United States series to be published, arriving on shelves six years after Robert Middlekauf’s The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789: on Amazon, Middlekauf’s book barely cracks the top 30,000 in all books sold McPherson’s is in the top 2,000. For context… most academic books never reach 1000 in sales, even with library purchases. Credited with launching a revival of interest in the Civil War (it preceded Ken Burns’ documentary by two and a half years), the 900-page tome has sold 700,000 copies so far, with another 15,000 annually added to that total. McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom, perhaps the most popular academic history of the Civil War ever published. Grant, would be named commander of all Union armies.Īs Americans remember what, in many ways, is the pivotal week of the entire Civil War, it’s worth celebrating a related anniversary: 2013 marks twenty-five years since the publication of historian James M. Then tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of Confederate forces finally surrendering the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi after a forty-day siege eight months later, the victorious commander at Vicksburg, Ulysses S. Fight as either the Union or the Confederacy and experience the brutal real-time first and third-person combat firsthand with an exclusive free demo during Steam Next Fest on February 21st - 28th, 2022. Civil War has reached the battle of Gettysburg, the three-day clash that ended 150 years ago today - with Pickett’s ill-fated charge up Cemetery Ridge. Battle Cry of Freedom will be released to Steam on March 1st, 2022 for 19.99 (19.99).
On Monday we noted that the ongoing sesquicentennial of the U.S.
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