The complete Civil War road trip guide More than 500 sites from Gettysburg to Vicksburg
Book - 2016
Features ten different multi-day itineraries that lead visitors through every major campaign site, as well as lesser-known venues in unlikely places such as Vermont and New Mexico.
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Woodstock, VT :
The Countryman Press, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
2016.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Second edition
- Item Description
- Original edition has subtitle: Ten weekend tours and more than 400 sites, from Antietam to Zagonyi's Charge.
- Physical Description
- xxii, 665 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-588) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781581573374
- Preface
- How to Use This Book
- Important Things to Remember When Visiting Civil War Sites
- Part 1. The Was in the West
- 1. The Far West
- 2. The Middle Mississippi Valley: From Cairo to Memphis
- 3. The Lower Mississippi Valley: Vicksburg and the Red River Campaign
- 4. America's Heartland and the Drive for Atlanta
- Part 2. The War Along the Coasts
- 5. The Gulf Coast
- 6. The Atlantic Coast
- Part 3. The War in the East
- 7. The War for the Capitals: Richmond
- 8. The War for the Capitals: Washington
- 9. Confederate Invasions of the North
- 10. The Shenandoah Valley
- Part 4. The Wide-Ranging War
- 11. Other Civil War Sites
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Appendix A. The Civil War Sites Advisory Commission List of Principal Battles-by State
- Appendix B. The Civil War Sites Advisory Commission List of Principal Battles-by Class
- Appendix C. Cross-Index of Alternative Battle Names
- Index