Combined Operations in the Civil War

In his introduction John D. Milligan considers Reed's provocative thesis that General George B. McClellan's concept of a grand strategy would have ended the bloodshed sooner.

Rowena Reed was on the history faculty at Dartmouth College and the author, with Michael Mullins, of A Union Bookshelf: Selected Civil War Bibliography. A professor of history at State University of New York at Buffalo, John D. Milligan is the author of Gunboats down the Mississippi.