The Civil War : A Visual History

380pp. Profusely illustrated in colour, indexed. Small folio. Crisp and clean laminated card covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, illustrated dust jacket (just very slightly bumped on edges with tiny nick at base of spine. With maps, portraits and artifacts from the Smithsonian's unrivalled collection, this volume traces the course of major engagements, strategies and the rapidly changing nature of warfare during the American Civil War. Broader topics such as slavery and the economy are interspersed with detailed profiles of those who played a significant part in the Civil War and eye-witness accounts from ordinary soldiers, with galleries of weapons and uniforms.