The American Civil War Volume 1 - War in the East, 1861-May 1863

Informationen zum Autor Gary Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, among them Lee and His Generals in War And Memory, T he Confederate War and Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General. Klappentext This is the first volume in a four-book series telling the bloody story of a war that divided a nation. It traces the famous Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign! and follows Confederate fortunes to one of the high points of the war following the battle of Fredericksburg. Zusammenfassung The United States saw long-simmering sectional tensions erupt into fighting at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, in April 1861, beginning what would become the most cataclysmic military struggle in the western world between Waterloo and the First World War. This volume focuses on events in the Virginia theater during the conflict's first two years, highlighting Union and Confederate strengths and weaknesses, leadership and strategy on each side, and the ways in which events on the battlefield influenced politics, diplomacy, and debates about emancipation. Osprey Essential Histories are complete yet concise studies of each major conflict in history.

Product details

• Authors: Gary Gallagher, Gary W. Gallagher
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2001
• EAN: 9781841762395
• ISBN: 978-1-84176-239-5
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 248 mm x 7 mm
• Series: Essential Histories; Essential histories series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Warfare & defence, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Specific wars and campaigns, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), c 1860 to c 1869, American Civil War