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When the Civil War broke out in April of 1861, many Americans on both sides expected the war to be a brief and comparatively bloodless fight. The Civil War was just the opposite -- a long and painful bloody struggle. After the horrible bloodletting of the battles of Antietam and Fredricksburg, even greater and more ghastly confrontations in Virginia and Pennsylvania awaited the soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac.
In this third volume of the Eyewitness History of the Civil War series, the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg are brought to life by the first hand accounts of some of the generals who made the battlefield decisions and some of the common soldiers who carried out the dirty deeds of warfare.
A corps commander at Chancellorsville, Darius Couch, relates the tragic story of Joseph Hooker's ill-fated campaign; and a member of the 142nd Pennsylvania tells the same story from the perspective of a soldier in the field.
As the war moves to the Pennsylvania countryside, W.W. Blackford recounts the battle of Brandy Station and J.E.B. Stuart's ill-conceived ride around the Army of the Potomac which left Lee's army effectively blind as it advanced into enemy territory.
In one of the most fascinating studies of the Civil War, a British military observer, Sir Arthur Freemantle, provides fascinating eyewitness accounts of Lee and his staff in action as the Army of Northern Virginia maneuvered toward its cataclysmic confrontation with Meade's Army of the Potomac.
CONDITION: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket, USED with light wear only, 176 pages, previous owner's bookplate in side front cover as is a gift inscription to previous owner.
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