"With more than two hundred photographs and countless personal accounts that vividly describe the experiences of soldiers in the fields,+ The Atlas of the Civil War brings to life the human drama that pitted state against state and brother against brother."--From back cove

James M. McPherson is a military historian and author of several books, including Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, the winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History and New York Times bestseller. He is the author of Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, Crossroads of Freedom, What They Fought For, 1861-1865, and many other books on the Civil War. He is Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University.