From the volunteers at Bull Run through Fort Donelson, Shiloh, the Seven Days and the Shenandoah, Elson narrates the war campaign by campaign, setting his text beside the photographs of Mathew Brady and his assistants. An opening essay by General Marcus J. Wright gives the official figures of men mustered, killed and lost to disease.
A readable one-volume history that pairs the war’s events with the photographs that first showed Americans what battle looked like. Download the free EPUB.