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Product Description: Union general John Pope was among the most controversial andmisunderstood figures to hold major command during the Civil War.Before being called east in June 1862 to lead the Army of Virginia against General Robert E. Lee, he compiled an enviable record in Missouri and as commander of the Army of the Mississippi...read more

Sifting carefully through reports from newspapers, magazines, personal memoirs, and letters, Peter Cozzens' Volume 6 brings readers more of the best first-person accounts of marches, encampments, skirmishes, and full-blown battles, as seen by participants on both sides of the conflict. Alongside the experiences of lower-ranking officers and enlisted men are accounts from key personalities including General John Gibbon, General John C. Lee, and seven prominent generals from both sides offering views on "why the Confederacy failed." This volume includes one hundred and twenty illustrations, including sixteen previously uncollected maps of battlefields, troop movements, and fortifications.

Product Description: Ambitious and outspoken, John Pope was one of the most controversial figures to hold high command during the Civil War, Reconstruction, and in the American West. General John Pope: A Life for the Nation is the first full biography of this much maligned figure who played crucial roles in both the eastern and the western theaters of the Civil War...read more

Product Description: Articles by William T. Sherman, James A. Garfield, John Pope, Nelson A. Miles, Elizabeth Custer, and othersTopics include army life on the frontier, Indian scouts, women's experiences, and commanders and their campaignsThis is the final installment of a series that seeks to tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West, using the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans who shaped it...read more

Presents a collection of more than 100 of Keith Rocco's paintings and sketches from twenty-plus years as one of the leading artistic chroniclers of the American Civil War. Rocco’s oils of soldier studies and dramatic battle scenes are reproduced in an oversize book on acid-free, heavy art paper. Included are Rocco’s murals for The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier, the National Park Service, and other sites.

Product Description: Selected from nearly 700 articles that first appeared in the Philadelphia Weekly Times from 1877 to 1889 Corrections of misconceptions about the Civil War Compelling perspectives on familiar campaigns, personalities, and controversies With articles by leading figures and numerous illustrations, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (0-252-02404-4) remains one of the most cherished works on the war...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description:   Emerson Opdycke, a lieutenant with the 41st Ohio Infantry and later a commander of the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, won fame at the Battle of Franklin when his brigade saved the Union Army from defeat. He also played pivotal roles in some of the major battles of the western theater, including Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Missionary Ridge...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Patterned after the classic Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, this series of five volumes will the most comprehensive work on the military aspects of the Indian Wars in the West. The author will gather a wide variety of first-person accounts that are not generally available elsewhere, relying primarily on unpublished manuscript accounts and contemporaneous newspaper articles...read more

Discusses the decisive Civil War battles around Chattanooga in 1863, detailing movements of individual regiments and revealing the impact of Chattanooga campaigns on the downfall of the South and outcome of the war

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Product Description: Part of the Civil War trilogy, this is a 3-volume set. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An account of this decisive Civil War battle, which pitted the Union Army of the Cumberland against Confederate General Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee (view table of contents)

Uses excerpts from the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the combatants to recreate the Tennessee battle, and assesses its influence on the outcome of the Civil War