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The American Civil War has never suffered from lack of scholarly attention. This "definitive" resource on a topic of perennial concern efficiently canvasses all the battles, generals, and campaigns in addition to the war's politics, economics, and home front concerns. Prefaced by a pithy four-page overview of the conflict, this set quickly gets down to business. Its 2,648 alphabetically arranged entries range in length from a few paragraphs on peripheral subjects to several pages on more pertinent terms such as the Union blockade of the Confederacy and Union general Ulysses S. Grant. The editors have done a remarkable job of incorporating judicious explanations for genera...Log In or Sign Up to Read More