Author:
Keegan, John, 1934-2012.
Imprint:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2009.
Descriptionxvi, 396 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
