1 atlas (223 p.) : 31 cm

This atlas reconstructs the battles of America's bloodiest war with unparalleled clarity and precision. It charts all of the major campaigns and many of the smaller skirmishes of the Civil War.--[book cover]

Includes bibliographical references and index

1861: The coming of war. April 12-14: Fort Sumter -- Clashes in Missouri -- Western Virginia -- Virginia -- South Atlantic coast -- 1862: A war for freedom. Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee -- February 6-16: Forts Henry and Donelson -- Northwestern Arkansas -- April 6: Shiloh -- April 7: Shiloh -- Upper Mississippi Valley -- Lower Mississippi Valley -- New Mexico campaign -- North Carolina campaign -- Showdown at Hampton Roads -- McCellan's peninsula campaign -- Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign: Phase 1; Phase 2 -- Seven Days Battles: Phase 1; Phase 2 -- July 14-August 27: Second Manassas (Bull Run) campaign: Phase 1; August 28- Second Manassas: Phase 2 -- September 4-20: The Antietam campaign: Phase 1 -- September 17: Antietam -- December 13: Fredericksburg -- Confederate Cavalry raids in Kentucky and Tennessee -- Confederate invasion of Kentucky -- Iuka and Corinth -- Grant's first Vicksburg campaign -- December 30-January 2 (1863): Stones River (Murfreesboro) -- 1863: The turning of the tide. Grant's second Vicksburg campaign: Phase 1; Phase 2 -- May 18-July 4: Siege and capture of Vicksburg -- May 8-July 9: Port Hudson campaign -- April 26-May 1: Chancellorsville: Phase 1 -- May 1-6: Chancellorsville: Phase 2 -- Gettysburg campaign: The invasion of Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg July 1; July 2; July 3 -- July-August: Two raids -- April 7-September 6: The campaign against Charleston -- June 24-September 9: Tullahoma campaign and capture of Chattanooga -- September 10-18: Chickamauga campaign -- September 19-20: Chickamauga -- September 21-November 25: Chattanooga -- August 15-December 4: Knoxville campaigns -- October-November: Operations in Virginia

1864: Total war. February-March: Operations in Mississippi and Florida -- March 10-May 22: The Red River campaign -- March 1-May 3: Steele's Arkansas campaign -- May 5-7: The Wilderness -- May 8-12: Spotsylvania, Phase 1; May 13-19: Phase 2 -- May 21-June 3: North Anna and Cold Harbor -- June 16-18: Assaults at Petersburg -- May 5-16: The Drewry's Bluff Campaign -- May 9-24 and June 7-28: Sheridan's Raids -- May-June: Operations in the Shenandoah Valley -- June 27-August 4: Early's Washington raid -- Sherman's Atlanta Campaign: Phase 1; Phase 2 -- July 20-28: Battles for Atlanta -- August 1-Sept 2: Atlanta Campaign, Final phase -- Forrest's operations in Mississippi and Tennessee -- Mobile Bay campaign -- June-October: Siege of Petersburg -- July-October: Siege of Richmond -- Sheridan and early in the Shenandoah Valley: Phase 1; Phase 2 -- September-October: Price's raid in Missouri -- October-November: Hood's Tennessee campaign -- December 15-16: Battle of Nashville -- November 15-December 21: Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea -- 1865: The triumph and the tragedy. Fort Fisher -- February 1-April 26: Sherman's Carolinas campaign -- The fall of Petersburg and Richmond -- April 2-9: The road to Appomattox

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