More men lost their lives during the battles of the Civil War in four long years of fighting than in any other war involving the United States; in the end, the South surrendered, but everyone actually lost.
Presents crucial battles of the Civil War, including battles at Antietam and Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chickamauga and Chattanooga.
Chronicles the progression of the American Revolutionary War, detailing the key events that led the United States to victory and arguing that defeat was much more likely than many would care to admit.
When Douglas Southall Freeman's original three-volume version of Lee's Lieutenants appeared in the 1940s, it marked a high point in Civil War history, and the books were lauded not only for their scholarship but for their elegant writing. This monument of Civil War literature has been skillfully abridged by one of the most noted present-day Civil War historians, Stephen W. Sears. The new one-volume abridgement retains the core material of the original and makes Freeman's fine writing available in a much more accessible format.
A biography of Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general during the Civil War, discussing his hard upbringing in the mountains of western Virginia, traces his military career, and his role in the Confederate victories of 1861-1863.
