I guess it’s important to start with a list of what this book is and isn’t. It’s a narrative history of the US Civil War starting with the months prior to the war and moving through the first years of the war ending leading up to the release of the Emancipation Declaration. Because a lot of different things happen on a given day, there’s often multiple threads happening at the same time. It’s clearly based on primary documents (in much of what we get here) […]