The American Civil War: A Military Overview

One of the Best American Civil War Books of All Time - BookAuthority

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it.”

The quote above was reportedly uttered by Robert E. Lee as he watched the Federal assault columns being blasted apart by his Southern artillery at the battle of Fredericksburg.

The Civil War was terrible. It took more than 600,000 lives and laid waste to large areas of the South. Its wounds, physical and mental, took many years to heal. Some might argue those wounds aren't completely healed, even today. As Shelby Foote wrote, “The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.”

The American Civil War: A Military Overview deals only with the military campaigns and major battles that defined the Civil War. It distills, simplifies and clarifies what can be a very confusing conflict. Most other Civil War history books (single and multi-volume) attempt to integrate various combinations of the political, cultural, economic, social, and military events that led to the war and its immediate aftermath. The shorter ones run 300+ pages. The longer volumes from 1000 to 3000 pages. Look elsewhere if that is what you are looking for; in this book you will find only a narrative of the military operations that comprised our nation’s Civil War in something over 100 pages.

Spend a couple of hours or so reading through the narrative. Find a personality, location, battle, or other event that you are really curious about and odds are you'll find an external web site linked within the e-book version. Click the link. Cast your net wide or dig in deep on the external sites. Spend as much or as little time as you want with the book and its linked sites. You can you tailor your exploration of the Civil War to your meet own particular interests.

The American Civil War: A Military Overview is concise but comprehensive. It includes:

Author Insights Introduction 1. The War Begins 2. On to Richmond 3. The Opening Moves in the West 4. The Peninsula Campaign 5. Second Manassas, Antietam and Fredericksburg 6. Bragg's Kentucky Campaign 7. The Chancellorsville Campaign 8. The Vicksburg Campaign 9. The Gettysburg Campaign 10. The Tullahoma Campaign 11. Chickamauga and Chattanooga 12. The Red River Campaign 13. Lee and Meade 14. Grant Takes Command 15. The Forty Days 16. Early's Drive on Washington 17. Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign 18. The Atlanta Campaign 19. Hood's Tennessee Campaign 20. Sherman's March to the Sea and Campaign of the Carolinas 21. Petersburg and Appomattox 22. The War Ends Plus extensive use of authoritative external web site links (e-book) to important personalities, locations, battles, and other events.

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