Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War (Jon Grinspan-CH) farm 500 British and Hessian soldiers

500 British and Hessian soldiers aboard a 265-ship armada sailing from New York

He shows how Americans grappled with their fears

and the mythic defense of Little Round Top might have occurred quite differently were it not for General Sickles

the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex

Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War (Jon Grinspan-CH) farm 500 British and Hessian soldiersby Jon Grinspan Excellent." Wall Street Journal A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war. At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes.