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Atlas of the Civil War, a comprehensive guide to the tactics and terrain of battle, edited by Neil Kagan ; text by Stephen G. Hyslop ; introduction by Harris J. Andrews

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Atlas of the Civil War, a comprehensive guide to the tactics and terrain of battle, edited by Neil Kagan ; text by Stephen G. Hyslop ; introduction by Harris J. Andrews

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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atlas

Main title

Atlas of the Civil War

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244148343

Responsibility statement

edited by Neil Kagan ; text by Stephen G. Hyslop ; introduction by Harris J. Andrews

Sub title

a comprehensive guide to the tactics and terrain of battle

Summary

"After the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history, a topographical map was prepared by a Union officer to document one of the war's most notorious killing grounds.... [T]his map ... and 87 other rare period maps, together with 34 newly created maps from National Geographic's ... cartographers, tell the complete story of the Civil War from slavery to the assassination of Lincoln."--P. 6

Table Of Contents

About this book -- Introduction: mapping the war -- 1861: a change of flags: prelude to war -- 1862: war on a grand scale -- 1863: a harvest of death -- 1864: the landscape of war -- 1865: tightening the noose -- Appendix: Battles of the Civil War ; Struggle for the heartland ; The seat of war

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National geographic atlas of the Civil War

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