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

Jay Winik
Appomattox was not preordained. There were no established rules or well-worn script. If anything, retribution had been the larger and longer precedent. So, if these moments teemed with hope—and they did—it was largely due to two men, who rose to the occasion, to Grant’s and Lee’s respective actions: one general, magnanimous in victory, the other, gracious and equally dignified in defeat, the two of them, for their own reasons and in their own ways, fervently interested in beginning the process t ...more
Jay Winik, April 1865: The Month That Saved America

Bruce Catton
Haupt’s head swam at the thought of dumping this howling mob down on a battlefield. Orders were orders, to be sure, but he was enough of an army man to know that there are ways and ways of rendering obedience. He delayed the train as long as he could; then, when he finally sent it off, he wired the officer in command at Fairfax Station to arrest all who were drunk.
Bruce Catton, Mr. Lincoln's Army

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