Chapters 3, 4, 5, 9. Civil War Soldiers Command, Combat

Press, 2000), Paddy Griffith, Battle Tactics of the American Civil War (1987,
rev. edn. Ramsbury: Crowood Press, 1996), Edward Hagerman, The American
Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare (Urbana, IL University of
Illinois Press, 1988), Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones,
and William N. Still, Jr, Why the South lost the Civil War (Athens, GA:
University of Georgia Press, 1986), and Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones,
How the North Won A Military History of the Civil War (Urbana, IL:
University of Illinois Press, On specific campaigns and battles, the work of Stephen Sears on George
B. McClellan and the Peninsula campaign, To the Gates of Richmond
The Peninsula Campaign (New York Ticknor & Fields, 1992), provides an excellent starting point for an understanding of the Union war effort in the opening years of the conflict, and his studies of the war’s bloodiest day,
Landscape Turned Red The Battle of Antietam (1983, paperback repr. New
York: Warner Books, 1985) and the Confederacy’s finest hour in the east,
Chancellorsville (Boston, MA, and New York Houghton Mifflin, 1996) are extremely useful. George C. Rable’s Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg! (Chapel
Hill, NC, and London University of North Carolina Press, 2002) offers an approachable study that places the battle in the broader context of its impact on those who fought it and on the civilian population. It is an excellent introduction to two armies and two societies at war. Gordon C. Rhea has produced a series of studies of some of the war’s final military campaigns in the East, all published by Louisiana State University Press The Battle of
the Wilderness, May 5–6, 1864 (1994); The Battle for Spotsylvania Court House
and the Road to Yellow Tavern (1997); To the North Anna River Grant and
Lee, May 13–25 (2000); and Cold Harbor Grant and Lee, May June 3, 1864
(2002).
For the war in the West, seethe two-volume study of the Army of
Tennessee by Thomas Lawrence Connelly: Army of the Heartland The Army
of Tennessee, 1861–1862 (1967, repr. Baton Rouge, LA Louisiana State
University Press, 1978); Autumn of Glory The Army of Tennessee, 1862–1865
(1971, repr. Baton Rouge, LA Louisiana State University Press, 1974). Two works by Albert Castel, Decision in the West The Atlanta Campaign of 1864
(Lawrence, KS University Press of Kansas, 1992), and General Sterling

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