Pre-Owned A Great Civil War : A Military and Political History, 1861-1865 (Hardcover) 9780253337382

from waltzmn

Quirky is as quirky does. This book definitely has its oddities -- as when the author insists on identifying generals as being generals U.S.A. or U.S.V., i.e. as generals in the regular army or the "volunteer" army that would disband when the Civil War was over. There is some logic to making this...

from charbonn

The author of this work, Russell F. Weigley, died in 2004, only four years after the book was published. He accepted the common wisdom of the time that the rifle musket, because of its greater accuracy and longer range as opposed to the smoothbore, put an end to the era of successful frontal atta...

from charbonn

The author of this work, Russell F. Weigley, died in 2004, only four years after the book was published. He accepted the common wisdom of the time that the rifle musket, because of its greater accuracy and longer range as opposed to the smoothbore, put an end to the era of successful frontal atta...