America's Civil War
Subtitle: the operational battlefield
By: Brian Holden Reid.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781591026051
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why the war came, how it was fought; title: The first phase, April 1861-March 1862; title: War on the margins, January-June 1862; title: Union frustration, April-July 1862; title: Confederate frustration, July-November 1862; title: Errors in the attack, November 1862-March 1863; title: The ebb and flow of battle, April-July 1863; title: Grant triumphs over adversity, July 1862-July 1863; title: Breaking the deadlock in Tennessee, June-December 1863; title: Half time : the transformation of a war; title: The experience of war.