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100 1 _aKeegan, John,
_d1934-2012.
245 1 4 _aThe American Civil War :
_ba military history /
_cJohn Keegan.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bAlfred A. Knopf,
_c2009.
300 _axvi, 396 p., [16] p. of plates :
_bill., maps, ports. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 371-373) and index.
505 0 _aNorth 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.
520 _aAnalyzes 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.
650 0 _aMilitary geography
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xCampaigns.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_xStrategic aspects.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xGeography.
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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856 4 1 _3Sample text
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