TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keegan,John
TI  - The American Civil War: a military history 
SN  - 9780307263438
AV  - E470 .K255 2009
U1  - 973.7/3 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Military geography
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Strategic aspects
KW  - Geography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-373) and index; 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 -- Civil War battle -- Could the South have survived? -- The end of the war
N2  - Analyzes many puzzling aspects of the Civil War, from its mismatched sides to the absence of decisive outcomes for dozens of skirmishes, and offers insight into the war's psychology, ideology, and economics while discussing the pivotal roles of leadership and geography
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