"The Vermont Brigade fought its first full-brigade engagement in the Seven Days Battle. Using letters, diaries, service and pension records, this book gives a soldiers-eye-view of the heat, little rest or nourishment, and fear and exhilaration of combat. Included are stories of …
"The Vermont Brigade (sometimes referred to as the "First Vermont Brigade" or the "Old Brigade") fought its first full-brigade engagement in the Seven Days' battles. Using soldiers' letters, diaries, and service and pension records, this book gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Vi…
The Richmond campaign of April-July 1862 ranks as one of the most important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War. Key political, diplomatic, social, and military issues were at stake as Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan faced off on the peninsula …
"This book offers nine essays that explore questions regarding high command, strategy and tactics, the effects of the fighting upon politics and society both North and South, and the ways in which emancipation figured in the campaign. The authors, all well-known Civil War histo…
"This book offers nine essays that explore questions regarding high command, strategy and tactics, the effects of the fighting upon politics and society both North and South, and the ways in which emancipation figured in the campaign. The authors, all well-known Civil War histo…