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The Tide Shifts (Battles and Leaders of the Civil War) Vol.III

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This book is one of a series of 4 books written/ edited by Johnson and Buel in the 1880's. These books were an outgrowth of articles written by Civial War participants and published in the "Century" magazine. All of the articles are excellent and the editors' notes are superb! Whenever you read any other book on the Civil War, its bibliography will almost certainly contain Johnson and Buel's "Battles and Leaders" - their 4 books are considered, along with the "Official Records", as essential source material for any author. This book and the other 3 books in the series are GREAT! And fun to read, as well. A "Must Have" series!

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Tide Shifts edited by Robert Underwood Johnson nad Clarence Clough Buel from "The Century Magazine" was written and originally concieved in 1883 by the editors of the Century Company. Reading most books published today about the Civil War, you'll most likely find in the bibliography references to this series. Thus, making this one of the best source materials of eywitness accounts published to date.

One of the costliest conflits, the Civil War still ranks high among events that came out of the nineteenth-century in United States history. This is volume three of a four part series that is written by the men who fought in the battles that comprise the Civil War. Events recalld by Grant, Sherman, McClellan, Longstreet and Beauregard just to name a few are described in detail with illustrations, maps, charts, and engravings to give the reader a better understnding of what was happening.

This volume starts with Bragg's Invasion of Kentucky described by General Joseph Wheeler called The Perryville Campaign and takes us through the Knoxville and Chattanooga areas of the war. Describing everything in detail you'll feel like you're there. I found these volumes explain a lot about the different battles and give the reader excellent details.

Where else can you go to get first hand knowledge of these fought battles... making this series invaluable to the reader and student of the Civil War.If you can find this series, it will make an excellent addition to your home library... you will find yourself referencing your reading about the Civil War with these volumes... adding detail and insight only found by those who actually were there and found here chronicled for your reading.

I found this series a real help in understanding why things happened the way they had. This series gives the reader an accurate, unbiased account of the war... a compelling story about part of our nation's history.