From Second Bull Run to Gettysburg: The Civil War in the East, 1862-63 [Paperback]

Stackpole Books presents Gen. Edward J. Stackpoles Civil War classicsThey Met at Gettysburg, Drama on the Rappahannock, Chancellorsville, and From Cedar Mountain to Antietamin a single abridged volume that covers the wars pivotal and turbulent middle year. This is epic history, told in sweeping, dramatic style by a master of the craft.Stackpole Books presents Gen. Edward J. Stackpoles Civil War classics -- They Met at Gettysburg, Drama on the Rappahannock, Chancellorsville, and From Cedar Mountain to Antietam -- in a single abridged volume that covers the wars pivotal and turbulent middle year in the Eastern Theater, from the summer of 1862 through the summer of 1863.?This year of bloody conflict included the wars defining battles:?Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. It was a year during which the Union cycled through generals as Lincoln sought one who could fight and win  from McClellan to Pope for Second Bull Run, back to McClellan for Antietam, to Burnside for Fredericksburg, to Hooker for Chancellorsville, and to Meade for Gettysburg.?As Union command in the East remained unsettled and these generals proved incompetent, timid, or both  or worse  this was the Souths chance, and Lee came into his own as a general for the ages during these months, besting Pope at Second Bull Run, decimating Burnside at Fredericksburg, and outsmarting and outfighting Hooker, with help from Stonewall Jackson, at Chancellorsville.?Lee, with a growing belief in his armys invincibility and an awareness that the Unions considerable resources in men and material would soon tell, twice mounted invasions of the North during these months, first at Antietam, where he fought McClellan to a draw but had to turn back, and last and more disastrously at Gettysburg, where Meade defeated Lee in three days of hard fighting and sent the Confederates reeling back to Virginia. This was also the year during which Lincoln gave the war higher purpose anlS6