Civil War Battlefields and Landmarks: A Guide to the National Park Sites: With Official National Park Service Ma PS for Each Site
Frank E. Vandiver
ISBN 10: 0679448985 ISBN 13: 9780679448983
Published by Random House Inc, 1996
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A richly illustrated journey to some of the most important battlefields and landmarks of the Civil War--from Fort Sumter to Appomattox--is accompanied by campaign and official National Parks Service maps, eyewitness accounts, biographical profiles, and other valuable information.
About the Author: Frank E. Vandiver is a scholar of military history whose distinguished work has earned him fellowships and honors at both American and European universities. Dr. Vandiver is Chairman of the Board of the Mosher Institute for International Policy studies and President Emeritus of Texas A&M University. He is also that university's first Distinguished University Professor, a Rockefeller Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a former Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford, England and visiting professor at the United States Military Academy, West Point. Among his published works of military history are twenty books, including: Their Tattered Flags: The Epic of the Confederacy (Harper's Magazine Press, 1970-Jefferson Davis Award of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society; Fletcher Pratt Award), Mighty Stone
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Title: Civil War Battlefields and Landmarks: A ...
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
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