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Civil War Battles Top Ten Booklist

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[[File:Landscape_Turned_Red.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left|<i>Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam</i>]]
<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469625334/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1469625334&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5cbd7fb2ebb6d725d9af14b1b262f59af Cold Harbor to the Crater: The End of the Overland Campaign]</i>, (UNC Press) Edited by Caroline Jenner & Gary Gallagher - Jenner and Gallagher's book is one in a series the excellent Military Campaigns of the Civil War series of books published by the University of North Carolina Press. Other books in the series examine the Fredericksburg, Shenandoah Valley and Wilderness campaigns. Like other books in this series it includes essays from noted Civil War and 19th Century historians including Joan Waugh, Stephen Cushman, Keith Kathryn Shively Meier, Gordon Rhea. Instead of simply describing the campaign, these essays delve deeply into a diverse array of topic including the work of Confederate engineers, enduring the life of a soldier, the resilience of Confederate soldiers after Gettysburg, and the experiences of civilians caught in the battle for Petersburg for over a year.
 
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[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807128031/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807128031&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e3bedc1d34a4ab0394b1409242343e9c Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864], (LSU Press) Gordon Rhea The Overland Series - Unlike Gallagher's and Jenner's more expansive book of essays, Rhea's book focuses on the battle for Cold Harbor. Despite the disproportionate losses by the Union, the Battle of Cold Harbor was a stalemate. Rhea goes into extraordinary detail about the battle and tries to demystify why the so many Union troops were killed. Cold Harbor is part of Rhea's Overland Campaign series published by LSU Press. The series also includes <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807118737/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807118737&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1a7a074dfdfd20472c7b5bc65ad4ee79 The Battle of the Wilderness]</i>, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807121363/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807121363&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=0dd2d7241d92d21a95949197fe89c647 The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern]</i>, and <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807125350/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807125350&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=14623c18b0d4a0619a022701fd1080d9 To the North Anna River]</i>. Rhea's book on the <i>Battle of the Wilderness</i> is also considered to be the classic book on this battle.

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