The Atlas of the American Civil War
James M. McPherson (Editor), "The Atlas of the American Civil War"
Running Press Book Publishers 2005 | 223 pages | ISBN: 9780762423569 | PDF | 55 MB (3-volume RAR archive)
"The Civil War was the most violent and fateful experience in American history. At least 620,000 soldiers were killed in the war, 2% of the American population in 1860. If the same percentage of Americans were to be killed in a war fought in the 1990s, the number of American war dead would exceed five million. An unknown number of civilians, nearly all of them in the South, died from causes such as disease, hunger or exposure inflicted during the conflict. As a consequence, more Americans died in the Civil War than in all of the country's other wars combined. The number of casualties incurred in a single day at the battle of Antietam (September 17, 1862) was four times the number of Americans killed or wounded on the Normandy beaches on D-Day, June 6, 1944. More Americans were killed in action that September day near Sharpsburg, Maryland, than were killed in combat in all the other wars fought by the United States in the 19th century."
169 colour maps, with drawings, period photographs and extensive commentary help to understand and visualise this conflict better.
