Product Description: Book by Miller, George Knox

Product Description: Engaging letters from a gifted and perceptive Confederate cavalry officer.This book contains the letters of George Knox Miller who served as a line officer in the Confederate cavalry and participated in almost all of the major campaigns of the Army of Tennessee...read more

Product Description: The "turning point" of the Civil War will always be a matter of debate among historians. There is no doubt, however, that William Tecumseh Sherman's capture of Atlanta was a devastating blow to the Confederacy. This little book gives an excellent account of the four-month campaign for the city...read more

Product Description: “Counterfactual questions, if kept within the parameters of what was possible at the time and place, can often help us better understand events of the past. In so doing, they can sometimes bring about a ‘paradigm shift’―a new way of thinking about history and hence of grasping its meaning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Narrates the 1864 campaign to destroy Atlanta in the hopes of Union victory in the Civil War and Lincoln's reelection, and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of commanding generals and public opinion in the North and South. (view table of contents)

Product Description: George W. Squier was one of the thousands of men from Indiana who heeded Lincoln's call for volunteers at the onset of the Civil War. As a soldier in the 44th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, he fought in the Western theater -- seeing action at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Stones River, and Chickamauga -- and rose to the grade of captain by the late winter of 1865...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Richard McMurry compares the two largest Confederate armies, assessing why Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was more successful than the Army of Tennessee. His bold conclusion is that Lee's army was a better army--not just one with a better high command...read more