A Single Grand Victory is a highly readable, concise, comprehensive narrative of the first major battle of the Civil War. Rafuse served as park historien at Bull Run, where he gained great familiarity with the site and the literature on this battle. His book incorporates insights offered in recent scholarship on Civil War military, political, and cultural history. The author describes the factors that led President Abraham Lincoln to order an offensive against Confederates at Manassas Junction at a time when his most prominent military men advised against it. The war policies of both the...
A Single Grand Victory is a highly readable, concise, comprehensive narrative of the first major battle of the Civil War. Rafuse served as park histor...
This volume is the essential guide to the Manassas battlefields, site of two of the Civil War s critical campaigns. Ethan S. Rafuse, a distinguished scholar of the Civil War, provides a clearly organized, thorough, and uniquely insightful account of both campaigns, along with expert analysis and precise directions for armchair traveler and battlefield visitor alike.
The July 1861 Battle of First Manassas and the August 1862 Battle of Second Manassas unequivocally influenced the course and outcome of the Civil War. The first battle dealt a decisive blow to hopes that the...
This volume is the essential guide to the Manassas battlefields, site of two of the Civil War s critical campaigns. Ethan S. Rafuse, a distinguishe...
