Bücher der Reihe Military Campaigns of the Civil War

Explores the Shenandoah Valley campaign, known for its role in establishing Thomas J 'Stonewall' Jackson's reputation as the Confederacy's greatest military idol. This title addresses questions of military leadership, strategy and tactics, and the campaign's political and social impact.

The Wilderness campaign of May 5-6, 1864, initiated an epic confrontation between Ulysses S Grant and Robert E Lee that would ultimately end, eleven months later, with Lee's surrender at Appomattox. This work assembles eight essays that explore aspects of the background, conduct, and repercussions of the fighting in the Wilderness.

The Maryland campaign of September 1862 ranks among the most important military operations of the American Civil War. The climactic clash came on September 17 at the battle of Antietam, where more than 23,000 men fell in the single bloodiest day of the war. This book examines the ways in which the battle has been remembered.

The Richmond campaign of 1862, waged by armies under Robert E Lee and George B McClellan, ranks as one of the important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War. This book offers nine essays which explores questions regarding high command, strategy and tactics, and the ways in which emancipation figured in the campaign.

Generally regarded as the most important Civil War military operation conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, the campaign of 1864 lasted more than four months and claimed more than 25,000 casualties. This book contains eleven essays that examine common assumptions about the campaign, its major figures, and its significance.

Chancellorsville was a remarkable victory for Robert E Lee's troops, a fact that had significant psychological importance for both sides. But the achievement, while stunning, came at an enormous cost of more than 13,000 Confederate casualties. This book explores a variety of important dimensions of the Chancellorsville campaign.

The Spotsylvania Campaign was a crucial period in the protracted confrontation between Ulysses S Grant and Robert E Lee in spring 1864. This title examines this campaign and explores questions regarding high command, tactics and strategy, the impact of continuous fighting on officers and soldiers in both armies.

The six essays collected here explore the enduring impact of the America Civil War on that nation's national consciousness. Contributors examine subjects as diverse as tactics, the uses of autobiography and the power of myth-making in the southern tradition.

A collection of seven essays which reinterpret the bloody Fredericksburg campaign and place it within a social and political context. It analyzes the battle's antecedents as well as its aftermath, and challenges long-held assumptions about the engagement.