Gallagher, Gary W.: The American Civil War

This volume focuses on events in the Virginia theatre during the first two years of the American Civil War, highlighting Union and Confederate strengths and weaknesses, leadership and strategy, and the ways in which the conflict influenced politics, diplomacy, and debates about emancipation."A very useful resource, especially, but by no means exclusively, in school and college libraries...these books offer very useful standardised accounts and are presented in very attractive and approachable volumes." -- Reference Reviews