The Longest Night

Like no other conflict in our history, the Civil War casts a long shadow onto modern America," writes David Eicher. In his compelling new account of that war, Eicher gives us an authoritative modern single-volume battle history that spans the war from the opening engagement at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox (and even beyond, to the less well-known but conclusive surrender of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith in Galveston, Texas, on June 2, 1865).
Although there are other one-volume histories of the Civil War -- most notably James M. McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, which puts the war in its political, economic, and social context -- The Longest Night is strictly a military history. It covers hundreds of engagements on land and sea, and along rivers. The Western theater, often neglected in accounts of the Civil War, and the naval actions along the coasts and major rivers are at last given their due. Such major battles as Gettysburg, Antietam, and Chancellorsville are, of course, described in detail, but Eicher also examines lesser-known actions such as Sabine Pass, Texas, and Fort Clinch, Florida. The result is a gripping popular history that will fascinate anyone just learning about the Civil War while at the same time offering more than a few surprises for longtime students of the War Between the States.
The Longest Night draws on hundreds of sources and includes numerous excerpts from letters, diaries, and reports by the soldiers who fought the war, giving readers a real sense of life -- and death -- on the battlefield. In addition to the main battle narrative, Eicher analyzes each side's evolving strategy and examines the tactics of Lee, Grant, Johnston, Sherman, and other leading figures of the war. He also discusses such militarily significant topics as prisons, railroads, shipbuilding, clandestine operations, and the expanding role of African Americans in the war.
The Longest Night is a riveting, indispensable history of the war that James McPherson in the Foreword to this book calls "the most dramatic, violent, and fateful experience in American history."

Autorentext
David J. Eicher is an astronomer and Civil War historian. The managing editor of Astronomy magazine, he is the author of several books on the Civil War, among them, Mystic Chords of Memory: Civil War Battlefields and Historic Sites Recaptured and The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography. He lives with his wife and son in the Milwaukee suburbs.

Inhalt
List of Maps Foreword by James M. McPherson Introduction Prologue: 1915 The War Begins at Sumter Organizing the Struggle Southern Joy over First Bull Run A Massacre at Ball's Bluff An Unlikely Hero at Belmont Grant Moves into Tennessee Clash of the Ironclads A Bloodbath at Shiloh Jackson's Valley Campaign The Peninsular Campaign Confederate Triumph at Second Bull Run The War's Bloodiest Day Fredericksburg's Appalling Loss Stalemate at Stones River The Campaign for Vicksburg Lee's Master Stroke Three Days at Gettysburg Visiting the River of Death The Battles for Chattanooga Sherman Eyes the Deep South The Red River Campaign Grant Moves into the Wilderness Action at Atlanta and Petersburg Sheridan Raids the Valley Sherman's March to the Sea Fall of the Last Confederate Port Lee's Army Crumbles The End of the Civil War Epilogue: 1865 Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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