The American Civil War

The American Civil WarFor the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of Americas most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill trained, ill equipped, and often malnourished combatants; the effective absence of decisive battles among some two to three hundred known to us by