Commanding the Storm: Civil War Battles in the Words of the Generals Who Fought Them

by John Richard Stephens

Book Overview

From Beauregard and Custer to Lee and Sherman, twelve commanders from each side vividly describe what they and their men experienced at twelve of the war's most legendary battles from Fort Sumter to Appomattox Court House in accounts gathered from letters, memoirs, reports, and testimonies. They relate noted incidents and personal triumphs and tragedies while covering strategies and explaining battlefield decisions. Trench warfare at Petersburg...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762782234
• ISBN13: 9780762782239
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.7" x 9.3"