Battlefields of the Civil War
Contributors: United States. National Park Service.
Series: United States
Publisher: Arno Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780405122965
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
Description: In 1861, the United Sates of America is a country divided by ideology. Years of latent mistrust and deep-set rancor over a multitude of issues —social, economic and political— tied in with the overriding problem of the morality of slave labor, forged an ever-deepening rift between the North and the South. in 1861, with the intensity of a volcanic eruption, this resentment exploded into warfare. The Civil War had begun.

Through the close examination of fifteen major military campaigns, *Battlefields of the Civil War* takes you along the terrifying and often confusing road between the opening shots at Fort Sumter and the surrender of the Confederate forces at the Appomatox Court House four years and forty-two days later.

Page after page of excitingly-written commentary, plus hundreds of vivid photographs and drawings from a deeply-moving description of what the Ear Between the States was really like.

Along the weary road were bloody struggles: Manassas, where the Union was soundly defeated in July, 1861, stunning Washington and making the Confederates overconfident; Shiloh, in April, 1862, where nearly 24,000 men on both sides of the line were killed, wounded or reported missing, and where the South gained respect for the Union soldier; te peninsula Campaign, where the largest amphibious operation yet undertaken in the western world failed to put Richmond into Union hands, and assured the nation a long, bitter war.

More battles, and more death were to come: Antietam Creek in Western Maryland, April 17, 1862, the scene of the bloodiest day of the Civil War, and a draw —critically important because the South's failure to win lost the Confederacy France and England's recognition; Fredericksburg, November to December, 1862, another desperate Union thrust against Richmond; and Chancellorsville, a near catastrophe for the Union forces and the South's costliest victory; Vicksburg, Grant's 20-day miracle; the confrontation at Gettysburg which neither side planned; Chickamauga; Chattanooga; the Battle of the Wilderness; the final struggle for Richmond; and the blitzkrieg-like Atlanta Campaign, marking the destruction of a city and a way o life —such is the long road so vividly presented in this thrilling book.

*Battlefields of the Civil War* is one of the best studies of this terrifying struggle you will ever get to read. It is also one of the best history books available.
Notes: Reprint of the 1961 ed. published by National Park Service, Washington, which was issued in: Historical handbook series.
Includes illustrations and maps.
Table of contents: label: I
title: The Attack on Fort Sumter
pagenum: 1; label: II
title: Battle of Manassas (First Battle of Bull Run)
pagenum: 39; label: III
title: Battle of Shiloh
pagenum: 65; label: IV
title: Peninsula Campaign
pagenum: 89; label: V
title: Second Battle of Bull Run
pagenum: 117; label: VI
title: Battle of Antietam
pagenum: 133; label: VII
title: Battle of Fredericksburg
pagenum: 183; label: VIII
title: Battle of Chancellorsville
pagenum: 199; label: IX
title: Battle of Vicksburg
pagenum: 211; label: X
title: Battle of Gettysburg
pagenum: 265; label: XI
title: Battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga
pagenum: 305; label: XII
title: Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania
pagenum: 351; label: XIII
title: Final Struggle for Richmond
pagenum: 365; label: XIV
title: Campaign for Petersburg
pagenum: 383; label: XV
title: Atlanta Campaign
pagenum: 453