This Hallowed Ground the Story of the Union Side of the Civil War

from MrsLee

A history of the Civil War campaigns from the Union Army perspective, I cannot say whether this is a good or bad book on the subject. I found once I had begun it that my interest in the subject was null. It was written for youth, the illustrations were either old drawings or photos of army soldie...

from davetherave

Hardly a book for light reading, but to a student of the American Civil War no doubt a valuable reference book.

from worldsedge

The title is extremely misleading in that it really isn't about the North necessarily. Like everything else I've read by Catton, it is mostly about the military conflict, very little about the off-battlefield is discussed. I get the feeling big chunks of this work were dropped wholesale into his ...

from antiquary

Vividly written but a little dated in its attitudes, especially its hostility to the Radical Republicans