Keegan, John.

The American Civil War : a military history / by John Keegan. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2009. - xvi, 396 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

North and South divide -- Will there be a war? -- Improvised armies -- Running the war -- The military geography of the Civil War -- The life of the soldier -- Plans -- McClellan takes command -- The war in middle America -- Lee's war in the East, Grant's war in the West -- Chancellorsville & Gettysburg -- Vicksburg -- Utting the Chattanooga-Atlantic link -- The overland campaign & the fall of Richmond -- Breaking into the South -- The battle off Cherbourg & the Civil War at sea -- Black soldiers -- The home fronts -- Walt Whitman and wounds -- War generalship -- War battle -- Could the South have survived? -- The end of the war.

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Military geography--History--United States--19th century.


United States--History--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--Stragegic aspects.
United States--Geography.

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