Overview :Some 100,000 soldiers fought in the April 1862 battle of Shiloh, and nearly 20,000 men were killed or wounded; more Americans died on that T... Read More
Overview :Winner: Fletcher Pratt AwardSteven Woodworth's previous book, the critically acclaimed Jefferson Davis and His Generals, won the prestigious... Read More
Overview :Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood's ill-fated 1864 c... Read More
Overview :In September 1863, Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans drives into Georgia flanking Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg out of Chattanooga. Bragg, he... Read More
Overview :Commanders who serve on the losing side of a battle, campaign, or war are often harshly viewed by posterity. Labeled as mere "losers," they ... Read More
Overview :From mid-August to mid-September 1863, Union major general William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland maneuvered from Tennessee to north ... Read More
Overview :The hard-fought and dramatic battles of Chickamauga (September 19-20, 1863) and Chattanooga (November 23-25, 1863) changed the course of the... Read More
Overview :General William Tecumseh Sherman famously said "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it." This statement has contributed to his mythic stat... Read More
Overview :Referring to the war that was raging across parts of the American landscape, Abraham Lincoln told Congress in 1862, "We shall nobly save, or... Read More
Overview :The Battle of Shiloh was one of the most important battles of the Civil War, and it offers a particularly rich opportunity to study the ways... Read More
Overview :A companion to Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg, this new volume assesses Union generalship during the final two years of the Ci... Read More
Overview :During the summer of 1863, Federal Forces scored major victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, turning the tide of war in favor of the Union.... Read More
Overview :Ulysses S. Grant did more than any other single Union general to secure the North's victory in the Civil War, but he did not achieve that vi... Read More
Overview :Ulysses S. Grant's ingenious campaign to capture the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River was one of the most decisive event... Read More
Overview :The Human Tradition in the Civil War and Reconstruction brings alive this decisive period in American history by taking the reader beyond th... Read More