Rafuse (military history, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS) presents this concise biography of one of the most celebrated generals of the American Civil War, Thomas J. "
This volume is the essential guide to the Manassas battlefields, site of two of the Civil War’s critical campaigns. Ethan S. Rafuse, a distinguished scholar of the Civil War, provides a clearly organi
The outcomes of campaigns in the Civil War often depended on top generals having the right corps commanders in the right place at the right time. Mutual trust and respect between generals and their co
Rafuse (US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth) presents a sampling of scholarship on Civil War military history in the form of 29 papers previously published in such academic pub
In his consideration of the Civil War career of General Meade, historian Rafuse (formerly of the U. of Missouri and the US Military Academy) rehabilitates the operational and tactical reputation of th
Bold, brash, and full of ambition, George Brinton McClellan seemed destined for greatness when he assumed command of all the Union armies before he was 35. It was not to be. Ultimately deemed a failur
A compelling narrative of one of the Civil War's most pivotal campaigns in which Federal armies drove Robert E. Lee's army to the brink of defeat in April 1865.
More than 800 men lost their lives and 2,700 were wounded. Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson earned his legendary nickname "Stonewall" here as fellow Confederate General Barnard
In this reexamination of the last two years of Lee's storied military career, Ethan S. Rafuse offers a clear, informative, and insightful account of Lee's ultimately unsuccessful struggle to defend th
In this reexamination of the last two years of Lee's storied military career, Ethan S. Rafuse offers a clear, informative, and insightful account of Lee's ultimately unsuccessful struggle to defend th
The Civil War was the crisis of the republic's first century - the test, in Abraham Lincoln's words, of whether any free government could long endure. It touched with fire the hearts of a generation,
In September 1862 the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac conducted one of the truly great campaigns of the Civil War. At South Mountain, Harpers Ferry, and Antiet
