The Emergence of Total War (Civil War Campaigns and Commanders Series)
Description
Summer 1862. The Confederacy has suffered several important defeats in the Western Theater and faces a serious threat to Richmond in the East. Federal politicians and citizenry, perplexed that fighting has continued into a second year, want an end to the war. Abraham Lincoln asks his battlefield commanders to develop a winning strategy in the East, a strategy that will not spare resources, terrain, nor the well being of private citizens—a strategy that would come to be known as "total war." The plan, implemented in 1862, proves a failure, mostly because of the man charged wi...
ISBN(s)
1886661138, 9781886661134
