Customer Review: The cost in American life was greater than that for all other American wars combined, from colonial times through the wars against terrorism. Antietam was the bloodiest, and yet more fatalities on both sides occurred at Shiloh, Tennessee, and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. But it was the loss at Shiloh... more info
Customer Review: This is an interesting collection of essays on the Shenandoah Campaign of 1864. Gary Gallagher has pulled together a set of essays that, even if they sometimes contend with one another, helps the reader get a better understanding of the 1864 conflict. The dramatic personae in this action... more info
Customer Review: Jefferson Davis was a decent man, a man of his time, a man upon whom history bequeathed a horrible burden; to lead a people to defeat and virutal ruin in great and bloody war. He had many faults, as all men do, and many great qualities too. But he was a man of his time and any historian trying to... more info
Customer Review: I'm a longtime fan of Burke Davis' narrative histories of the Civil War (although I must admit that all such histories--including Shelby Foote's--drive me up the wall with their total or near lack of endnotes!). He was a fantastic writer with a storyteller's ability to keep a reader spellbound. The... more info
Customer Review: A heavy drinker and trouble-maker while at West Point, Jefferson Davis went on to be a war hero, a U.S. Senator, a Secretary of War and finally first and only President of the Confederate States of America. Thin skinned, proud and convinced his position was the only correct one, he was unsuited to... more info
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