| FusilierDan | 08 Feb 2012 6:11 a.m. PST |
OK so I'm a bit behind on this but I'm looking for a book on the Civil War that either covers the war during this year or is about one of the pivotal battles/campaigns of the year. My goal is to read a book for each year of the war. I'm not a fast reader so that makes for the limit. Thanks |
| A Twiningham | 08 Feb 2012 6:27 a.m. PST |
Stephen Sears wrote "On to Richmond" about the Penninsula campaign and "Landscape Turned Red" on the Antietam campaign. They are both done in a very readable style. |
| inverugie | 08 Feb 2012 6:43 a.m. PST |
Definitely second the Stephen Sears recommendation; an excellent series of detailed and readable books. |
| Fat Wally | 08 Feb 2012 8:28 a.m. PST |
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| Big Red | 08 Feb 2012 10:12 a.m. PST |
Perryville by Kenneth Noe 1862 titles by Peter Cozzens: Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth No Better Place to Die: THE BATTLE OF STONES RIVER Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas by John J. Hennessy |
| War In 15MM | 08 Feb 2012 10:14 a.m. PST |
I've always loved the Bruce Catton trilogy, The Army of the Potomac. For the Union cavalry Stephen Starr did a three volume set entitled The Union Cavalry in the Civil War which is very good. The period of 1862 is in volume one. And for the western theater I'm always drawn to Shelby Foote's triology, The Civil War, A Narrative. I believe volumes one and two cover the period of 1862. |
| d effinger | 08 Feb 2012 11:09 a.m. PST |
Try Terrible Swift Sword: Volume Two in the American Civil War Trilogy by Bruce Catton. It covers both Western and Eastern campaigns. Don actionfront.blogspot.com "Who ever saw a dead cavalryman?" |
| twowheatons | 08 Feb 2012 1:00 p.m. PST |
Both books above by Sears are great. |
| jgibbons | 08 Feb 2012 4:33 p.m. PST |
The recommendations above are very good… I too would chime in for Cozzens or Sears… James |
| HammerHead | 08 Feb 2012 9:02 p.m. PST |
I`m reading` Grant wins the war` about his campaign to take Vicksburg ebooks so easy to use 1862-3 |
 Der Alte Fritz  | 14 Feb 2012 12:09 p.m. PST |
Since it is the susquicentennial of 1862, I'd recommend the following to cover the Eastern Theatre campaigns of 1862, in the following order: 1) To The Gates of Richmond – Stephen Sears
2) Shenandoah 1862 – Peter Cozzens
3) Return to Bull Run – John Hennessy
4) Before Antietem – The battle of South Mountain -JM Priest
5) The Landscape Turned Red – Sears
6) The Fredericksburg Campaign – Francis Augustin O'Reilly That is a lot of reading in one year, but each of these books is very readable and you will sail right through them, especially the Cozzens book. |
