Current reading this excellent and quite objective IMHO coffee table book about the ACW by Thomas Allen which also has some excellent modern day photographs of many of the famous battlefields as well as ACW-era photographs and drawings. I highly recommend it to any student of the ACW.


“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”