The Boston war correspondent who signed himself Carleton sketches the Army of the Potomac from August 1861 to November 1862, while George McClellan commanded. He covers its organisation, the disaster at Ball’s Bluff, the winter at Dranesville, the siege of Yorktown, Williamsburg and the Peninsula campaign, with diagrams of the fighting.
Vivid history written while the war was still being fought, by one of its best-known reporters. Download the free EPUB.