The Untold Civil War: Exploring the Human Side of War

by James I. Robertson Jr.

Book Overview

National Geographic presents provocative stories shedding new light on the Civil War, American history's watershed, from Union and Confederate soldiers to Abraham Lincoln and Gettysburg.

Was Gettysburg a tactical success, or was the outcome determined by a far more mundane factor: access to fresh water? How did the need to spread information about the dead and wounded give rise to the U.S. Postal Service? Did President Lincoln really age so...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142620812X
• ISBN13: 9781426208126
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 3.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.6" x 11.0"