The Civil War Day by Day

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R. Matthews
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The Civil War Day by Day

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Publisher: Dorset Press
Edited by: John S . Bowman
Introduction by: Henry Steel Commager

An interesting narrative that is broken into a day by day account of every important development in the war versus focusing on specific campaigns. The concurrent time-line, inadequacies of communication, the political roots of conflict, and the relevance of each on the conduct of war in total, have combined to make a very different impression on this reader than that gleaned from biographies, and battle anthologies. The whole was truly greater than the individual parts.
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cruces
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I did get a chance to read the book, and it was very enjoyable plus dealt with many obscure battles. An excellent read

Major Elkin
Asst COS (acting) AoT
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