The U.S. Army War College Guides to Civil War Battles
These guides combine eyewitness accounts with explicit details about advances and retreats, leadership strategies, obstacles, achievements, and blunders to bring the exploits to life. They provide directions to key points of interest on the battlefield and maps that illustrate the action and show details of troop positions, roads, rivers, elevations, and tree lines as they were 150 years ago. Used in the field, these guides will help recreate the battle’s setting and proportions, giving the reader a sense of the physical and psychological obstacles each soldier faced.
“These guides bridge the gap between sound military history and battlefield touring literature. They can be enjoyed without ever leaving the easy chair or they can become indispensable companions on tramps over the scenes of the greatest engagements of the Civil War.”—William C. Davis
“These are the most thorough, detailed, and accurate books of their kind. Indeed, they are unique. I have used them to lead guided tours of several battlefields, with great success.”—James. M. McPherson
“I most highly recommend this important and valuable series of guidebooks.”—Herman Hattaway
For more information about the series, please contact: Joyce Harrison, Editor in Chief, University Press of Kansas: joyce@ku.edu.
Edited by Charles R. Bowery Jr. and Ethan S. Rafuse
Price: $29.99
Pub Date: May 16, 2014
Format: Paperback
536 Pages
The most thorough and accurate guide book available for one of the most complex and prolonged campaigns of the Civil War by two experts in military history and Civil War battlefield sites.
Combines official histories and on-the-scene reports, orders, and letters from commanding Union officers with specially-drawn maps depicting the terrain within which they fought in May 1864. Includes easy-to-understand routes for tourists to follow.
This guide contains remarkable detail on several firsts and rarities for the time period, from crossings under fire and street fighting to now-familiar trench warfare.
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