A gold mine for the historian as well as the Civil War buff, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War offers a concise, comprehensive overview of the major pers

Behind the familiar names of the military and political leaders whose names we all know--Lincoln, Davis, Lee, Grant, Sherman, and Jackson, are the people whose

Every time Union armies invaded Southern territory there were unintended consequences. Military campaigns always affected the local population -- devastating fa

•Entries written by renowned diplomatic and military historians as well as key scholars in international relations •Provides assessments and analyses of key

Traces the course of the Civil War, year by year, using profiles of important people, eyewitness accounts, and period art.