This fascinating look at the battlefields in Virginia, West Virginia, and the Carolinas began as a short article about the author's visit to one of the battlefields in Virginia, and blossomed into this full length account of his journey of discovery across the Confederacy as he roamed from battlefield to battlefield, tracing the footsteps of soldiers that had gone before him. The account of each battlefield is broken down into three sections: a description of the author's route to each site; a summary of the battle that was generally gathered from information at the site; and a description of...