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America's Civil War : the operational battlefield, 1861-1863 / Brian Holden Reid.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reid, Brian Holden.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 504 pages : maps, plans ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2008.
- Contents:
- Why the war came, how it was fought
- The first phase: April 1861 to March 1862
- War on the margins: September 1861 to June 1862
- Union frustration: April to July 1862
- Confederate frustration: July to September 1862
- The Confederacy fumbles and a bold Union move: September to October 1862
- Errors in the attack: November 1862 to March 1863
- The ebb and flow of battle: April to July 1863
- Grant triumphs over adversity: July 1862 to July 1863
- Breaking the deadlock in Tennessee: June to December 1863
- Halftime : the transformation of a war
- The experience of war
- Postscript: The problem of indecisiveness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-470) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781591026051
- 1591026059
- OCLC:
- 186348016
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