Stephen W. Sears
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 884 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
"The High Command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War. President...
Series
Library of America volume 212
Publisher
Distributed in the United States by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xxv, 814 p. : col. maps ; 21 cm.
Description
"Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems, songs, military reports, legal opinions, and memoirs, this collection brings together over 120 pieces by more than 60 men and women to create a firsthand narrative of the first year of the Civil War. Beginning on the eve of Lincoln's election in 1860 and ending in January 1862 with the appointment of Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War, the selections provide a sense of the immediacy, uncertainty,...
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxiii, 1230 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
An anthology of excerpts from the four-volume classic "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" features first-hand recollections by the Civil War's commanders and subordinates on both sides, with commentary by such leading scholars as James McPherson and Joan Waugh.