Other editions of book The Civil War: A Narrative

This volume opens with Jefferson Davis' dramatic resignation from the United States Senate and Abraham Lincoln's departure from Springfield for the national capitol. Moving from politics and diplomacy to the battlefield, Foote introduces each side's relative force, and the takes the reader through the early battles, such as First Manassas and Ball's Bluff, strategies the decided the early course of the war, including the naval blockade of the south, and the jockeying for position among generals, both Union and Confederate.