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Book

The American Civil War : a military history

Call Number

  • 973.73 K262 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2009.

Physical Description

396 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • North and South divide
  • Will there be a war?
  • Improvised armies
  • Running the war
  • The military geography of the Civil War
  • The life of the soldier
  • Plans
  • Mcclellan takes command
  • The war in middle America
  • Lee's war in the East, Grant's war in the West
  • Chancellorsville & Gettysburg
  • Vicksburg
  • Utting the Chattanooga-Atlantic link
  • The overland campaign & the fall of Richmond
  • Breaking into the South
  • The battle off Cherbourg & the Civil War at sea
  • Black soldiers
  • The home fronts
  • Walt Whitman and wounds
  • War generalship
  • War battle
  • Could the South have survived?
  • The end of the war.

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