A Great Civil War : A Military and Political History, 1861-1865

"The crowning achievement of one of America’s most distinguished military historians." —Lincoln Prize jury"Readers will find much to debate in this book—including... its affirmation that, because of emancipation, ‘the Civil War calls for a rethinking of the attitude... that war is always futile, that its rewards never match its cost, that any conflict [must be] immediately decisive and virtually without loss of American lives.’" —Gary W. Gallagher