Table of Contents

"A Monument to His Glorious Memory"; Military Apprenticeship, 1807-61; Quiet Emergence, April 1861-June 1862; Fortunes Transformed, June-July 1862; Apogee, July-September 1862; Resurgent Again, October 1862-May 1863; Fateful Climax, June-July 1863; Acme of Defensive Skill, August 1863-June 1864; Slow Disintegration, June 1864-April 1865; The Reckoning; Index.

About the Author

Brian Holden Reid (London, England) is professor of American history and military institutions and head of the Department of War Studies at King's College, London. Since 1993, he has been a member of the Council of the Society for Army Historical Research and from 1998 to 2004 served as chairman. In 2004-2005, he was the first non-American to serve as a member of the Lincoln Prize jury panel, which awards the most important literary prize in the field of Civil War history. His many books include The Origins of the American Civil War and The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century.