This crucial campaign receives its most complete and comprehensive treatment in Edward Longacre’s The Early Morning of War. A magisterial work by a veteran hi
Two great, untested armies were readying for the first—and what many believed would be the last—major conflict between North and South. On the eve of July 2
A detailed, illustrated account of the beginning of the Civil War. At Bull Run, two inexperienced, ill-trained and poorly led armies clashed in the opening enga
A gripping and original account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and milli
On July 21, 1861, near a Virginia railroad junction twenty-five miles from Washington, DC, the Union and Confederate armies clashed in the first major battle of