This volume, a collection of eleven original essays by many of the foremost U.S. military historians, focuses on the transition of the Army from parade ground t
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
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
"Following two journeys, Kit Carson's 1864 military expedition from Fort Bascom to Adobe Walls and Alvin Lynn's journey to document what happened are told"--
This series offers to students of the Civil War, either those continuing or those just beginning their exciting journey into the past, concise overviews of impo