| A Bird's-Eye View of Our Civil War Contributor(s): Dodge, Theodore Ayrault (Author) |
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ISBN: 0306808455 ISBN-13: 9780306808456 Publisher: Da Capo Press OUR PRICE: $21.77 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1998 Annotation: Theodore Dodge, who fought in the Civil War as a brevet lieutenant-colonel for the United States Army, has written a concise military history of the American Civil War that evenhandedly treats major and minor operations with the space each deserves, presenting a kind of skeleton of the Civil War. 47 maps & charts. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | Military - United States |
| Dewey: 973.73 |
| LCCN: 97032938 |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.36" W x 7.94" (0.98 lbs) 366 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Following the course of Civil War campaigns can be taxing for even the most well-read military scholar. The operations at major sites such as Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Petersburg were complicated matters, with generals on each side commanding infantry and cavalry brigades from different positions and making simultaneous movements along complex geographic routes; the battles were less climactic moments than prolonged struggles marked by continual flux. But Theodore Ayrault Dodge makes it easy. With his well-drawn maps, his positioning of each movement with its date and, where important, time, his enumeration of the size of--and the losses suffered by--the various forces engaged, Dodge makes every episode of this long war clear and comprehensible. His concise military history of the American Civil War evenhandedly treats major and minor operations with the space each deserves, presenting a kind of skeleton of the Civil War. Here is perhaps the only general history that avoids over-detailed descriptions and technical terms, withholds partisan bias, treats generals on both sides with admiration and respect, and communicates elegantly yet succinctly, calmly yet vividly, the entire course of the conflict that changed the way men and nations make war. |