The American Civil War - The War in the East 1861-May 1863

96 S., Format: 17x24,8 cm, 46 s/w-Abb. (Fotos, Zeichnungen, Skizzen), 13 Farb-Abb. (Fotos, Kartenskizzen), durchgehend englischsprachig, Paperback - Aus dem Inhalt: Chronology, Background to war - Sectional tensions divide the United States 1820-1860, Outbreak - Election - Southern secession - creation of the Confederacy, Warring sides - Strengths and weaknesses of the Union and the Confederacy, The fighting - From First Manassas to Chancellorsville, Common soldiers - Federals and Confederates in camp and in battle, Prtrait of a soldier - Robert Augustus Moor a Confederate soldier, The world around war - Northern and Southern society adjust to the demands of war, Portrait of a civilian - Elizabeth Herndon Maury on the Virginia home front, How the period ended - An uncertain future,
Autor: Gary W. Gallagher, Verlag: OSPREY Publishing, ISBN 1-84176-239-3