Longest Night A Military History of the Civil War

"...David J. Eicher...has written a solid and comprehensive military overview, detailing the major campaigns as well as the minor battles, from start to finish. Here, in a book that will serve as a useful companion to E. B. Long and Barbara Long's excellent resource, THE CIVIL WAR BY DAY one can profitably sift through the action at Gettysburg or the ill-fated Confederate charge at Franklin and plumb the struggles at Stones River, Chickamauga, Shiloh, Vicksburg or Chancellorsville. In between, one gets a full meal of the war's vital ancillary components: technical aspects of how armies and navies were structured; the use of codes, ciphers and intelligence; analyses of artillery and cavalry clashes as well as military medicine....THE LONGEST NIGHT will surely be an important reference for students of the war."Eicher, David J. is the author of 'Longest Night A Military History of the Civil War' with ISBN 9780684849454 and ISBN 0684849453.