The American Civil War: A Military Overview by Michael R. Brasher
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Overview: It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it.”
The quote above was reportedly uttered by Robert E. Lee as he watched the Federal assault columns being blasted apart by his Southern artillery at the battle of Fredericksburg.
The Civil War was terrible. It took more than 600,000 lives and laid waste to large areas of the South. Its wounds, physical and mental, took many years to heal. Some might argue those wounds aren’t completely healed, even today. As Shelby Foote wrote, “The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things… It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.”
The American Civil War: A Military Overview deals only with the military campaigns and major battles that defined the Civil War. It distills, simplifies and clarifies what can be a very confusing conflict. Most other Civil War history books (single and multi-volume) attempt to integrate various combinations of the political, cultural, economic, social, and military events that led to the war and its immediate aftermath. The shorter ones run 300+ pages. The longer volumes from 1000 to 3000 pages. Look elsewhere if that is what you are looking for; in this book you will find only a narrative of the military operations that comprised our nation’s Civil War in something over 100 pages.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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