Brother Against Brother and Forward to Richmond
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.
This book presents the events in the Civil War leading up to the first major battle, at Bull Run in 1861, and describes that clash and its aftermath.
Leavitt Hunt to Heintzelman, Apr. 24, 1864, Heintzelman Papers, LC; Sedgwick to sister, July 6, 1862, Sedgwick, Correspondence, II, pp. 69-70; A. P. Hill, McCall reports, 11:2, pp. 838-39, 391; Charles B. Haydon diary, June 30, MHC; ...
Burdened with the responsibility of running an entire plantation, Carrie Cromwell fights to understand the forces tearing her beloved country apart.
"A mere question of time" -- "The object ... is to surprise and capture Richmond" -- "Hold the intermediate line at all hazards" -- "We mowed them down like grass"...
Told through the words of participants and observers, both military and civilian, this book is an account of the events that followed George B. McClellan's appointment as commander of the Army of the Potomac, and his controversial Peninsula ...
Second Bull Run (or Second Manassas, as it was known in the South) is considered by many to be the greatest example of Robert E. Lee's tactical genius. It was...
Featuring a detailed bibliography and a glossary of terms, this work contains the most complete Order of Battle of the Peninsula Campaign ever compiled, and it also includes the identification of commanders down to the regiment level.
In Richmond Shall Not Be Given Up, historian Doug Crenshaw follows a battle so desperate that, ever-after, soldiers would remember that week simply as The Seven Days.