This book does not recount the history of the Civil War. Rather, the intent is to give, in words and pictures, impressions of that war.

Recounts General McClellan's attempt to capture Richmond by advancing up the Virginia peninsula from Yorktown, and how the campaign failed when Confederate forces under General ...

Combining brilliant military analysis with rich narrative history, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on the Battle of Antietam. The Civil War battle waged on ...

A fascinating look at some of the most intriguing generals in the Union's Army of the Potomac and at some of the most extraordinary events of the Civil War, chronicled by a ...

The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s history. Volumes have been written about this momentous three-day ...

Recounts the Civil War battle at Chancellorsville where Robert E. Lee scored his greatest victory.

Articles from "American Heritage" discuss the construction of the "Monitor" and its confrontation with the "Merrimack," the contributions of Black troops in the Union army, and ...

From the author of Gettysburg: A “valuable” collection of the letters of this controversial Civil War general (James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books). No one played ...

The Library of America's ambitious four-volume series continues with this volume that traces events from January 1862 to January 1863, an unforgettable portrait of the crucial ...