The Civil War Battlefield Guide

The Definitive Guide to the 384 Principal Battles

Frances H. Kennedy

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 1998
• Print ISBN:
  9780395740125
• eBook ISBN:
  9780547524696
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

This new edition of the definitive guide to Civil War battlefields is really a completely new book. While the first edition covered 60 major battlefields, from Fort Sumter to Appomattox, the second covers all of the 384 designated as the "principal battlefields" in the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report. As in the first edition, the essays are authoritative and concise, written by such leading historians as James M. McPherson, Stephen W. Sears, Edwin C. Bearss, James I. Robinson, Jr., and Gary W. Gallager. The second edition also features 83 new four-color maps covering the most important battles. The Civil War Battlefield Guide is an essential reference for anyone interested in the Civil War.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Foreword
• Preface
• Charleston Harbor: April 1861
• The Blockade of Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River: May–June 1861
• West Virginia: June–December 1861
• Manassas Campaign: July 1861
• The Staff Ride and Civil War Battlefields
• Northern Virginia: October–December 1861
• Blockade of the Potomac River: September 1861–March 1862
• Missouri: June–October 1861
• Grant on the Mississippi River: November 1861
• Missouri: December 1861–January 1862
• Florida: October 1861
• Kentucky: September–December 1861
• Kentucky: January 1862
• Indian Territory: November–December 1861
• Pea Ridge, Arkansas: March 1862
• Arkansas: June–July 1862
• Sibley's New Mexico Campaign: February–March 1862
• Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers: February–June 1862
• Middle Mississippi River: February–June 1862
• New Orleans: April–May 1862
• North Carolina: August 1861; February–December 1862
• Fort Pulaski: April 1862
• Charleston: June 1862
• Mapping the Civil War
• Jackson Against the B & O Railroad: January 1862
• Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign: March–June 1862
• Peninsula Campaign: March–August 1862
• Northern Virginia Campaign: August–September 1862
• Maryland Campaign: September 1862
• Confederate Heartland Offensive: June–October 1862
• A Civil War Legacy
• Iuka and Corinth, Mississippi, Campaign: September–October 1862
• Missouri and Oklahoma: August–November 1862
• U.S.-Dakota Conflict of 1862: August–September 1862
• Louisiana: August–October 1862
• Blockade of the Texas Coast: September 1862–January 1863
• Florida: June–October 1862
• Arkansas: November–December 1862
• Fredericksburg: December 1862
• Forrest's Raid into West Tennessee: December 1862
• Stones River Campaign: December 1862–January 1863
• Vicksburg Campaign and Siege: December 1862–July 1863
• Streight's Raid Through Alabama: April–May 1863
• Missouri and Arkansas: January–May 1863
• West Louisiana: April 1863
• Louisiana: June–September 1863
• Siege of Port Hudson: May–July 1863
• "Making Free"
• Middle Tennessee: February–April 1863
• Union Naval Attacks on Fort McAllister: January–March 1863
• Charleston: April–September 1863
• Longstreet's Tidewater Campaign: March–April 1863
• Cavalry Along the Rappahannock: March 1863
• Chancellorsville Campaign: April–May 1863
• Preserving Civil War Battlefields
• Gettysburg Campaign: June–July 1863
• The Gettysburg Address
• Morgan's Indiana and Ohio Raid: July 1863
• Arkansas, Idaho, and Oklahoma: January–September 1863; February 1864
• North Dakota: July–September 1863
• Kansas: August–October 1863
• Tullahoma Campaign: June 1863
• Chickamauga Campaign: August–September 1863
• Blockade of the Texas Coast: September 1863
• Arkansas: September–October 1863
• Photography in the Civil War
• East Tennessee: September–October 1863
• Virginia & Tennessee Railroad: November 1863
• Memphis & Charleston Railroad: November 1863
• The Cracker Line: October 1863
• Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign: November 1863
• Knoxville Campaign: November–December 1863
• East Tennessee: December 1863–January 1864
• Bristoe Campaign: October–November 1863
• Mine Run Campaign: November–December 1863
• Rapidan River, Virginia: February 1864
• Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid: February–March 1864
• Deep South: January–February 1864
• Florida: October 1863 and February 1864
• Military Strategy, Politics, and Economics
• Red River Campaign: March–May 1864
• Camden, Arkansas, Expedition: April–June 1864
• Forrest's Raid on Paducah and Fort Pillow: March–April 1864
• North Carolina: April–May 1864
• Bermuda Hundred Campaign: May 1864
• Grant's Overland Campaign: May–June 1864
• Southwest Virginia: May 1864
• Shenandoah Valley: May–June 1864
• Early in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Shenandoah Valley: July–August 1864
• Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign: August 1864–March 1865
• Hallowed Ground
• Atlanta Campaign: May–September 1864
• Morgan's Last Kentucky Raid: June 1864
• Forrest's Defense of Mississippi: June–August 1864
• Dakota Territory: July 1864
• Richmond-Petersburg Campaign: June 1864–March 1865
• Mobile Bay: August 1864
• Pro-Confederate Activity in Missouri
• Price in Missouri and Kansas: September–October 1864
• Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee: September–December 1864
• Forrest's Raid into West Tennessee: October–November 1864
• Hood's March to Tennessee: October–December 1864
• Sand Creek, Colorado Territory: November 1864
• Sherman's March to the Sea: November–December 1864
• North Carolina: December 1864–February 1865
• Second Inaugural Address
• Sherman's Carolina Campaign: February–March 1865
• Appomattox Campaign: March–April 1865
• Florida: March 1865
• Mobile Campaign: March–April 1865
• Wilson's Raid in Alabama and Georgia: March–May 1865
• Texas: May 1865
• End Matter
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3
• Appendix 4
• Glossary
• About the Authors
• Index
• The Conservation Fund
• Footnotes