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Civil War, The: Volume 2 - A Narrative: Fredericksburg To Meridian
Civil War The Volume 2 A Narrative Fredericksburg To Meridian Author:Shelby Foote Part One Of Three Parts Though the events of the Civil War midpassage have been recounted many times, they have rarely been told with the vigor and detail Shelby Foote brings to his authoritative trilogy, THE CIVIL WAR. Volume II begins two years after the first guns were fired on Ft. Sumter. Federals and Confederates are both weary, but t... more »he fight rages on, increasingly focused on control of the Mississippi River, one of the strategic necessities of the war. All the battles of the middle years are here, told by those who fought them. Their vivid memories recall Vicksburg, Chancellorsville, the fall of Charleston and the bloodiest battle of all, in a small Pennsylvania town -- Gettysburg.« less