master historian gives readers a fresh new picture of the Civil War as it really was. Buell examines three pairs of commanders from the North and South, who met
With April 12, 2011, set to mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter, the time is ripe for a new assessment of the conflict’s m
Although much is known about the political stance of the military at large during the Civil War, the political party affiliations of individual soldiers have re
A renown military historian and frequent television commenter brings to life the generalship of the South during the Civil War in sparkling, information-filled
Many commanders in the American Civil War (1861-1865) served in the Mexican War (1846-1848). This book explores influence of the earlier war on those men who wo