The American Civil War
Subtitle: a military history
By: by John Keegan.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardback, dark blue-grey cloth, silver lettering on spine
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780307263438
Subjects: Military geography -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns; United States -- Stragegic aspects; United States -- Geography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: North and South divide; title: Will there be a war?; title: Improvised armies; title: Running the war; title: The military geography of the Civil War; title: The life of the soldier; title: Plans; title: Mcclellan takes command; title: The war in middle America; title: Lee's war in the East, Grant's war in the West; title: Chancellorsville & Gettysburg; title: Vicksburg; title: Utting the Chattanooga-Atlantic link; title: The overland campaign & the fall of Richmond; title: Breaking into the South; title: The battle off Cherbourg & the Civil War at sea; title: Black soldiers; title: The home fronts; title: Walt Whitman and wounds; title: War generalship; title: War battle; title: Could the South have survived?; title: The end of the war.