13 audio discs (16 hr., 40 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Note
Compact discs.
Performer
Read by Robin Sachs.
Note
Subtitle from container.
Unabridged.
Contents
North and South divide -- Will there be a war? -- Improvised armies -- Running the war -- The military geography of the Civil War -- The life of the soldier -- Plans -- Mcclellan takes command -- The war in middle America -- Lee's war in the East, Grant's war in the West -- Chancellorsville & Gettysburg -- Vicksburg -- Utting the Chattanooga-Atlantic link -- The overland campaign & the fall of Richmond -- Breaking into the South -- The battle off Cherbourg & the Civil War at sea -- Black soldiers -- The home fronts -- Walt Whitman and wounds -- War generalship -- War battle -- Could the South have survived? -- The end of the war.