Ebook: The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War

Get the entire picture of the Civil War in clear, compelling prose. Discover the causes, the course, and the conclusion of this titanic conflict.;Fire-bell in the night. Beginnings ; Liberty and union, now and forever? ; Descent into war ; Bleak inaugural -- Rally round. "We'll manage to keep house" ; The Anaconda and a picnic party ; McClellan and Grant ; Ocean, valley, and river ; Blue, gray, and red ; Seven days and another Bull Run -- Die to make men free. In blood proclaimed ; A worse place than hell ; Bread and bullets ; Thunderstorm from a cloudless sky -- That the nation might live. Gettysburg ; "Not for Uncle Sambo" ; From mud to mountain -- The last full measure. Mr. Lincoln's general ; "The butcher" ; Damn the torpedoes ; "I almost tremble" ; On to Richmond! ; Appomattox ending -- Taps and reveille. Malice toward one ; War without end? ; Memory -- Appendixes. Words of war ; Who was who in the Civil War.