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
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

Bruce Catton
It is recorded that during the long winter after the Battle of Fredericksburg, when the two rival armies were camped on opposite sides of the Rappahannock, with the boys on the opposing picket posts daily swapping coffee for tobacco and comparing notes on their generals, their rations, and other matters, and with each camp in full sight and hearing of the other, one evening massed Union bands came down to the river bank to play all of the old songs, plus the more rousing tunes like "John Brown's ...more
Bruce Catton, Mr. Lincoln's Army

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