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[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195173309/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195173309&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=80102c73906ceab964b0b0831e1713a2 Antietam: Crossroads of Freedom], James McPherson - McPherson has written extensively on the Civil War, but he has usually approached this topic from broader narrative. In his Pultizer Prize winning book Battle Cry Freedom, he masterfully wrote about the entire war. In one of his most recent books The War that Forged a Nation, he explained how the war fundamentally changed the United States and why it still resonates today. In Antietam, McPherson took a different approach. He not only walks the reader the entire battle, but he explains why the battle of Antietam fundamentally altered the course of the war.
<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679728317/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679728317&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=0c817b7e934d7d21fdce5d684d5b36c0 Chancellorsville 1863, The Souls of the Brave]</i>, Ernest B. Furguson - Furguson's book elegantly explains the tactically complicated Battle of Chancellorsville and puts the reader into the midst of the battle. Furguson, a former columnist and journalist for the <i>Baltimore Sun</i> has written several other outstanding books on Civil War including <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679746609/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679746609&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=eef30d1217401c560a729113f0e2470d Ashes of Glory]</i> and <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375404546/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375404546&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=d6571b2049a36690996a15169737f671 Freedom Rising]</i>.
<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807872695/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807872695&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e75411434194a906c349e1f16ab03074 Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!]</i>, George Rable - Rable's book is the classic book on the Battle of Fredericksburg. Fredericksburg was a disastorous defeat for the Union army and his books not only looks at the military aspects of the conflict, but also the social and political aspects that influenced and shaped the battle. This is the best book to start with if you want learn about Fredericksburg.
[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], 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.
The Battle of Gettysburg. It is impossible to pick just one book on the Battle of Gettysburg. While there has been a longstanding debate over which battle was more important during the war (Antietam and Gettysburg), Gettysburg is part of the American consciousness. Not only did it end the Confederacy's advance into the North, it gave birth to the most famous speech in American history. Each of these books attempts to answer different questions about Gettysburg. Harry Pfanz book <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807847305/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807847305&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=99ab2cbaf9236d0f568e9341bdfd8aec Gettysburg: The Second Day]</i> focuses solely on the second day of the battle, while Stephen Sears takes a much more expansive look at the entire in battle [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618485384/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0618485384&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=d3659b96be7588346745720a4e005e02 Gettysburg], Sears, . Carol Reardon's book [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807854611/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807854611&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5a78632122521fd5b8ff8e9046e163dc Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory Carol] Reardontakes an entirely different approach by focusing on perhaps the most important charge in United States history. She explains why Pickett's Charge has been elevated to the status of an American myth and attempts to put the charge back into its proper historical place. Finally, Mark Grimsley and Brooks D. Simpson's <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803270771/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0803270771&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=13f92ebb8229f28b42f9fa539ae62a3a Gettysburg: A Battle Guide] Grimsley </i> is the battle guide on Gettysburg. The authors help the reader make sense of confusing and Simpsoncomplicated battlefield better than any other book. This book essential if you plan on visiting [https://www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm The Gettysburg National Military Park].
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199931682/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0199931682&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=77557c16fc84e192ad77dc4d567da088 The Civil War at Sea], Symonds,
