The American Civil War: a military history

North and South divide

Will there be a war?

Improvised armies

Running the war

The military geography of the Civil War

The life of the soldier

Plans

McClellan takes command

The war in middle America

Lee's war in the East, Grant's war in the West

Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

Vicksburg

Cutting the Chattanooga-Atlanta link

The overland campaign and the fall of Richmond

Breaking into the South

The battle off Cherbourg and the Civil War at sea

Black soldiers

The home fronts

Walt Whitman and wounds

Civil War generalship

Civl War battle

Could the South have survived?

The end of the war.