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This second volume in Bruce Catton's American Civil War trilogy shows how the Union and Confederacy slowly reconciled themselves to all-out war.

Gift donated by George "Peter" Warrick.

Details the Civil War battle at Antietam Creek, MD, September 17, 1862, between the forces of Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. George B. McClellan.

Horace Porter served as lieutenant colonel on Ulysses S. Grant's staff from April 1864 to the end of the Civil War. He accompanied Grant into battle in the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg campaigns, and was present at Lee's surrender at McLean's house. Throughout the war, he kept extensive notes that capture Grant's conversations, as well as his own observations of military life. Porter's portrait of Grant is the most comprehensive first-hand...

Text and illustrations describe the events before, during and after the Battle of Gettysburg.

"A comprehensive index to the 27 volumes of the Civil War series. At the bottom of each page is a key that explains the abbreviations used to represent the various volumes. Page numbers in roman type denote text reference; those in italic type indicate illustrations."-- P. 38.

The termination of the war and the fate of the Union hung in the balance in May of 1864 as Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac clashed in the Virginia countryside--first in the battle of the Wilderness, where the Federal army sustained greater losses than at Chancellorsville, and then further south in the vicinity of Spotsylvania Courthouse, where Grant sought to cut Lee's troops off from the Confederate...

Describes the political infighting that threatened to swamp Lincoln's administration. Follows McClellan's ill-fated campaign on the Virginia Peninsula.

Describes the Battle of Gettysburg, the fall of Vicksburg, the use of black troops, and the battles at Chickamauga and Chattanooga.