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A savage war : a military history of the Civil War / Williamson Murray and Wayne Hsieh.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016Description: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691169408 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.7/3 23
LOC classification:
  • E470 .M88 2016
Contents:
The origins -- The war's strategic framework -- And the war came -- First battles and the making of armies -- Stillborn between Earth and water: the unfulfilled promise of joint operations -- The Confederacy recovers, 1862 -- The Confederacy on the offensive, 1862 -- The war in the east, 1863 -- The war in the west, 1863 -- The killing time, the war in the east, 1864 -- Victory in the west, 1864 -- The collapse of the Confederacy -- Conclusion, the place of the Civil War in history.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The origins -- The war's strategic framework -- And the war came -- First battles and the making of armies -- Stillborn between Earth and water: the unfulfilled promise of joint operations -- The Confederacy recovers, 1862 -- The Confederacy on the offensive, 1862 -- The war in the east, 1863 -- The war in the west, 1863 -- The killing time, the war in the east, 1864 -- Victory in the west, 1864 -- The collapse of the Confederacy -- Conclusion, the place of the Civil War in history.

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