A Companion to the U.S. Civil War

A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865).

• Represents the most comprehensive coverage available relating to all aspects of the U.S. Civil War
• Features contributions from dozens of experts in Civil War scholarship
• Covers major campaigns and battles, and military and political figures, as well as non-military aspects of the conflict such as gender, emancipation, literature, ethnicity, slavery, and memory

Keywords: American Civil War, War Between the States, Mason Dixon, slaveholders, emancipation, Fort Sumner, Appotamattox, Mississippi Valley, Shenandoah Valley, Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, American Indian, Native American, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglas, North and South, Union, Confederate, historiography, Military History, US History, Military History, US History