The definitive military history of the Civil War, featuring the same exclusive images, tactical maps, and expert analysis commissioned by The United States Military Academy to teach the history of the art of war to West Point cadets.

"Comprises six chapters ot the West Point History of Warfare that have been revised and expanded for the general reader"--Acknowledgments. Includes maps of: United States in 1848; Compromise of 1850; Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854; Expansion of Slavery, 1790-1860; Waves of Secession; 1860 Census - Distribution of White Male Population; 1860 Census - Cash Crop Value Dot Density; Cotton Trade; First Bull Run Campaign; First Battle of Bull Run; Campaign for Forts Henry and Donelson; Advance to Shiloh; Battle of Shiloh, Morning, 6 APR; Battle of Shiloh, Evening, 6 APR; Battle of Shiloh, Morning, 7 APR; Battle of Shiloh, Afternoon, 7 APR; [Timeline of Battles, MAR-OCT 1862]; Peninsular Campaign, JUN 1862; Jackson's Valley Campaign (3); Seven Days Battle; Second Bull Run Campaign (2); Second Battle of Bull Run (3); Battle of Antietam; Antietam Campaign (2); [Timeline of Battles, OCT 1862-SEP 1863]; Fredericksburg (4); Chancellorsville (4); Gettysburg Campaign; Battle of Gettysburg; [Timeline of Battles, MAR 1862-DEC 1863]; Corinth; Kentucky Campaign; Battle of Corinth; Grant's First Vicksburg Campaign; Battle of Stones River; Grant's Second Vicksburg Campaign; Grant's Final Vicksburg Campaign (2); Battle of Champion Hill; Siege of Vicksburg; Rosecrans's Advance to Chattanooga; Battle of Chickamauga (3); Opening the Cracker Line; Battle of Chattanooga; [Timeline of Battles, MAR 1864-MAY 1865]; Grant's Plan; Overland Campaign, 3-26 MAY; Battle of the Wilderness; Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse; Overland Campaign, 27 MAY-18 JUN; Battle at the North Anna River; Battle of Cold Harbor; Petersburg Campaign, 18 JUN; Atlanta Campaign; Petersburg Campaign - Grant's Third Offensive; Petersburg Campaign (2); Sherman's March to the Sea; Hood's Campaign in Tennessee; Battle of Franklin; Battle of Nashville; Sherman's Campaign through the Carolinas; Defeat of Lee - Pursuit to Appomattox; Reconstruction; Confederate Surrenders; Union Territorial Gains by Year; Military Districts of the South.

Origins of the Civil War and the contest for the borderlands /by Mark E. Neely Jr. -- The war in the east, July 1861-September 1862 / by Joseph T. Glatthaar -- Lee's war in the east / by Joseph T. Glatthaar -- Grant's war in the west / by Steven E. Woodworth -- Coordinated strategy and hard war / by Earl J. Hess -- The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction / by James K. Hogue. Origins of the Civil War and the contest for the borderlands / by Mark E. Neely, Jr. -- The war in the East, July 1861-September 1862 / by Joseph T. Glatthaar -- Lee's war in the East / by Joseph T. Glatthaar -- Grant's war in the West / by Steven E. Woodworth -- Coordinated strategy and hard war / by Earl J. Hess -- The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction / by James K. Hogue.