Civil War Military History

Shaara neither attempts to vilify nor to excuse the officers or soldiers of the Confederacy (or the Union) but looks at them instead as individuals, many of whom were astonishingly brave and committed to their causes. Shaara allows us to see that although the war was in some ways about slavery and in some ways about the growing divide between the agrarian culture of the South as opposed to the industrial culture of the North, it was also about two groups of soldiers fighting for the survival of their homeland, their families, their farms, the places where they had played as children.

The book manages -û as do very few military histories -û to show the intricate ways in which every war is about a grand cause and also about a very intimate, personal equation of loyalty. While never diminishing the terribleness of slavery, ShaaraÆs book manages to depoliticize the war in a remarkable way so that we are giv

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