U.S. Travel - National Parks & Historic Sites, Historic Interests - Travel Guides, United States Civil War - Resolution & Aftermath, United States Civil War - Individual Battles & Campaigns, Confederate States of America - State & Local History, Union - C
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Overview
With this book as your guide, you can drive to these sites or better yet, boat across the waters where monstrous fleets of sailing ships and ironclad vessels threw tons of shot and shell onto the land, supplied the soldiers with millions of tons of food and ammunition, and transported their broken bodies to hospitals in Washington.Editorials
Library Journal
Tour books of Civil War battlefields are something of a cottage industry, but this refreshing alternative guides visitors to lesser-known sites in Virginia and Maryland where the armies marched, fought, and camped. Civil War buffs know about Ball's Bluff, Germanna Ford, Bermuda Hundred, and City Point; Nesbitt's entertaining book tells them how to visit those sites by car or boat--the latter a most welcome bonus. More important sites, such as Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Richmond, are given summary treatment (or, as in the case of the Wilderness and Chancellorsville, passed over altogether), as befits the greater amount of information available about them. Nesbitt ( 35 Days to Gettysburg , LJ 9/1/92), has given readers who want to retrace the paths of the Blue and the Gray a valuable resource.-- Brooks D. Simpson, Arizona State Univ . , TempeBooknews
Maps, history, and commentary accompany visitor information and suggested tours. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
September 1, 1993
Publisher
Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, c1993.
Pages
166
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780811725385