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This compelling and bestselling study is the first to fully integrate the military, political, social, economic, and civilian perspectives with rank-and-file accounts from the soldiers of both armies during the inexorably march north toward their mutual destinies at Gettysburg.

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The Civil War was the first conflict in which railroads played a major role. The Cumberland Valley Railroad's location enhanced its importance during some of the Civil War's most critical campaigns. The primary sources, combined with the expertise of the authors, bring this largely untold story to life.

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The Gettysburg Campaign has been examined in minute detail from nearly every aspect but one, the key role played by Richard Ewell's Second Corps during the final days in June. Flames Beyond Gettysburg is the first in-depth study of these crucial summer days that shaped the course of the Gettysburg Campaign.

William ¿Extra Billy¿ Smith, the oldest and one of the most controversial Confederate generals on the field at Gettysburg, was also one of the most colourful and charismatic characters of the Civil War and the antebellum Old South. Despite a life full of drama, politics, and adventure, until now no full-length biography of this former general, governor, and attorney existedKnown nationally as¿Extra Billy¿ because of his prewar penchant for fin...

Previous works on Confederate brigadier general Harry T. Hays's First Louisiana Brigade-better known as the "Louisiana Tigers"-have tended to focus on just one day of the Tigers' service-their role in attacking East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863-and have touched only lightly on the brigade's role at the Second Battle of Winchester, an important prelude to Gettysburg. In this commanding study, Scott L. Mingus, Sr., offers the firs...

June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is underway. Robert E. Lee¿s Army of Northern Virginia is pushing northward through the Shenandoah Valley toward Pennsylvania, and only one significant force stands in its way: Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy¿s Union division of the Eighth Army Corps, in the vicinity of Winchester and Berryville, Virginia. What happened next is the subject of the provocative new book The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederat...

The Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign, June July 1863, is the definitive account of General Harry T. Hayss remarkable brigade during the critical summer of 1863. While previous studies of the Louisiana Tigers have examined the brigade, or its regiments, or its leaders over the course of the American Civil War, and others have concentrated on its one-day role defending East Cemetery Hill on July 2, 1863, The Louisiana Tigers in the Ge...