The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln's War By William Marvel

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Focusing on the dramatic events of 1863, this is “a well-researched and well-written study that will be a fine addition to Civil War collections” (Booklist). The Great Task Remaining is a striking, often poignant portrait of people in conflict—not only in battles between North and South, but within and among themselves as the cost of the ongoing carnage sometimes seemed too much to bear. As 1863 unfolds, we see draft riots in New York, the disaster at Chancellorsville, the battle of Gettysburg, and the end of the siege of Vicksburg. Then, astonishingly, the Confederacy springs vigorously back to life after the Union summer triumphs, setting the stage for Lincoln’s now famous speech on the Pennsylvania battlefield. Without abandoning the underlying sympathy for Lincoln, William Marvel makes a convincing argument for the Gettysburg Address as being less of a paean to liberty than an appeal to stay the course in the face of rampant antiwar sentiment. This book offers a provocative history of a dramatic year—a year that saw victory and defeat, doubt and riot—as well as a compelling story of a people who clung to the promise of a much-longed-for end. “By 1863 Northern citizens and soldiers were increasingly and openly wondering whether preserving the union and ending slavery were worth the cost of Mr. Lincoln’s war. Disillusion and war-weariness had set in: the war’s only fruits seemed to be moral and political degradation, dangerous constitutional precedents, tens of thousands dead and maimed. The Battle of Chickamauga appeared to have restored the stalemate. Marvel particularly conveys the looming crisis of the impending expiration of the three-year enlistments that were the Union army’s norm. That, combined with the increasing reluctance of Northern men to volunteer or send their sons, could have ended the war by default. Romance and adventure or misery and peril—which emotions would prevail? As Marvel conclusively demonstrates, the coin remained in the air as 1863 came to an end.” —Publishers Weekly

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The Great Task Remaining ( a cogent line from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address of November 19, 1863) is the third volume of the four book set on the Civil War by noted historian William Marvel. Each book carries the reader through a specific year of the American Illiad.Volume I-Mr. Lincoln Goes to War-1861; Volume II-Lincoln's Darkest Year-1862; The Great Task Remaining-1863 and Tarnished Victory-1864-65. I In "The Great Task Remaining" Marvel explores in depth the events of 1863 from the Union perspective. The war began with the nation suffering disillusionment and grief following the crushing defeat suffered by General Burnside's Army of the Potomac at Fredricksburg. Things reached a nadir of despair when Robert E. Lee aided by Stonewall Jackson's brilliant flank attack on O.O. Howard's inept 11th Corp won at Chancellorsville. Boastful Joe Hooker was fired; George Gordon Meade took over command of the Army of the Potomac. Matters began to improve with the defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg and the fall of Vicksburg to U.S. Grant in July, 1863. Morgan raided the North that summer and Chickamauga and the battles around Chattanooga raged into the autumn. Marvell covers the anti-Lincoln and peace advocacy groups which inspired many Lincoln critics to urge a negotiated peace with the South. The conscription of men into the army meat grinder was very unpopular. Marvel quotes extensively from journals, letters and notes from soldiers in the field to the folks back home adding depth to his account. I have read all the Marvel books finding them excellent history well researched and written. Helpful maps and an extensive bibliography add richness to the book. Many photographs are also included. A fine book!

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