Civil War Eastern Theater

The Eastern Theater of the American Civil War included the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and the coastal fortifications and seaports of North Carolina.

The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook: Facts, Photos, and Artwork for Readers of All Ages, June 9 - July 14, 1863 (Savas Beatie Handbook)
Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War
Chancellorsville
To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign
To Appomattox: Nine April Days, 1865 (Classics of War)
Battle of New Market
Gettysburg, Day Three
The Antietam Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)
Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg
To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13–25, 1864 (Jules and Frances Landry Award)
The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)
Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864
Before Antietam: The Battle for South Mountain

Bruce Catton
Out of Bull Run would come an effort so prodigious that simply to make it would change America forever. In the dust and smoke along the Warrenton Road an era had come to an end.
Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

Michael Shaara
I believe every man who stood up was either killed or wounded," said Lieutenant Oliver Williams, who was himself hit. This regiment had participated in a touching event, well remembered by both armies. At Fredericksburg in late 1862, after the Sharpsburg campaign, it had held a dress parade at which the band played "Dixie." Across the Rappahannock a Northern band heard and played back the song as a bit of camaraderie. The band of the 20th North Carolina responded by playing "Yankee Doodle." Then ...more
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

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