The American Civil War : a military history John Keegan.

By: Keegan, JohnMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 396 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: 9780307263438; 0307263436Subject(s): Military geography -- United States -- History -- 19th century | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns | United States -- Stragegic aspects | United States -- GeographyDDC classification: 973.7/3 LOC classification: E470 | .K255 2009
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 and Gettysburg -- Vicksburg -- Utting the Chattanooga-Atlantic link -- The overland campaign and the fall of Richmond -- Breaking into the South -- The battle off Cherbourg and the Civil War at sea -- Black soldiers -- The home fronts -- Walt Whitman and wounds -- Civil War generalship -- Civil War battle -- Could the South have survived? -- The end of the war.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-373) and index.

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 and Gettysburg -- Vicksburg -- Utting the Chattanooga-Atlantic link -- The overland campaign and the fall of Richmond -- Breaking into the South -- The battle off Cherbourg and the Civil War at sea -- Black soldiers -- The home fronts -- Walt Whitman and wounds -- Civil War generalship -- Civil War battle -- Could the South have survived? -- The end of the war.

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