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Description
The United States saw long-simmering sectional tensions erupt into fighting at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, in April 1861.
This began what would become the most cataclysmic military struggle in the western world between Waterloo and the First World War. This volume focuses on events in the Virginia theater during the conflict's first two years, highlighting Union and Confederate strengths and weaknesses, leadership and strategy on each side, and the ways in which events on the battlefield influenced politics, diplomacy, and debates about emancipation.
Osprey Essential Histories are complete yet concise studies of each major conflict in history.
Table of Contents
Chronology
Background to war
Warring sides
The fighting
Portrait of a soldier
The world around war
Portrait of a civilian
How the war ended
Conclusion and consequences
Further reading
Product details
Published | 19 Jan 2001 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 96 |
ISBN | 9781841762395 |
Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
Illustrations | 43 b/w; 16 col |
Dimensions | 248 x 170 mm |
Series | Essential Histories |
Short code | ESS 4 |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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