The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages
The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos from America’s Greatest Conflict is a complete up-to-date guide for American Civil War enthusiasts of all ages. Author Mark Hughes uses clear and concise writing, tables, charts, and more than 100 photographs to trace the history of the war from the beginning of the conflict through Reconstruction.

Coverage includes battles and campaigns, the common soldier, technology, weapons, women and minorities at war, hospitals, prisons, generals, the naval war, artillery, and much more. In addition to these important areas, Hughes includes a fascinating section about the Civil War online, including popular blog sites and other Internet resources. Reference material in The New Civil War Handbook includes losses in battles, alternate names for battles, major causes of death of Union soldiers (no data exists for Confederates), deaths in POW camps, and other valuable but hard to locate information.

Civil War buffs will find The New Civil War Handbook to be an invaluable quick reference guide, and one that makes an excellent gift for both the Civil War novice and the Civil War buff.

About the Author: Mark Hughes is an electronics instructor widely recognized as the authority on Civil War cemeteries. He has written several books, including Bivouac of the Dead, The Unpublished Roll of Honor, and Confederate Cemeteries (2 vols.). An electronics instructor at Cleveland Community College, Mark, his wife Patty, and their daughter Anna Grace live on the family farm near Kings Mountain, NC.
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The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages
The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos from America’s Greatest Conflict is a complete up-to-date guide for American Civil War enthusiasts of all ages. Author Mark Hughes uses clear and concise writing, tables, charts, and more than 100 photographs to trace the history of the war from the beginning of the conflict through Reconstruction.

Coverage includes battles and campaigns, the common soldier, technology, weapons, women and minorities at war, hospitals, prisons, generals, the naval war, artillery, and much more. In addition to these important areas, Hughes includes a fascinating section about the Civil War online, including popular blog sites and other Internet resources. Reference material in The New Civil War Handbook includes losses in battles, alternate names for battles, major causes of death of Union soldiers (no data exists for Confederates), deaths in POW camps, and other valuable but hard to locate information.

Civil War buffs will find The New Civil War Handbook to be an invaluable quick reference guide, and one that makes an excellent gift for both the Civil War novice and the Civil War buff.

About the Author: Mark Hughes is an electronics instructor widely recognized as the authority on Civil War cemeteries. He has written several books, including Bivouac of the Dead, The Unpublished Roll of Honor, and Confederate Cemeteries (2 vols.). An electronics instructor at Cleveland Community College, Mark, his wife Patty, and their daughter Anna Grace live on the family farm near Kings Mountain, NC.
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The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages

The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages

by Mark Hughes
The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages

The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages

by Mark Hughes

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The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos from America’s Greatest Conflict is a complete up-to-date guide for American Civil War enthusiasts of all ages. Author Mark Hughes uses clear and concise writing, tables, charts, and more than 100 photographs to trace the history of the war from the beginning of the conflict through Reconstruction.

Coverage includes battles and campaigns, the common soldier, technology, weapons, women and minorities at war, hospitals, prisons, generals, the naval war, artillery, and much more. In addition to these important areas, Hughes includes a fascinating section about the Civil War online, including popular blog sites and other Internet resources. Reference material in The New Civil War Handbook includes losses in battles, alternate names for battles, major causes of death of Union soldiers (no data exists for Confederates), deaths in POW camps, and other valuable but hard to locate information.

Civil War buffs will find The New Civil War Handbook to be an invaluable quick reference guide, and one that makes an excellent gift for both the Civil War novice and the Civil War buff.

About the Author: Mark Hughes is an electronics instructor widely recognized as the authority on Civil War cemeteries. He has written several books, including Bivouac of the Dead, The Unpublished Roll of Honor, and Confederate Cemeteries (2 vols.). An electronics instructor at Cleveland Community College, Mark, his wife Patty, and their daughter Anna Grace live on the family farm near Kings Mountain, NC.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781932714623
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Publication date: 05/22/2009
Series: Savas Beatie Handbook Series
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Mark Hughes is a retired college electronics instructor widely recognized as the authority on Civil War cemeteries. He has written several books, including The New Civil War Handbook, Bivouac of the Dead, The Unpublished Roll of Honor, and Confederate Cemeteries (2 vols.).

In addition to his books Mark has written articles on a wide range of topics for a number of publications including: QST: The Journal of Amateur Radio; Electronics Technology Journal; Genealogical Helper; and Technical Directions.

Mark, his wife Patty, and their daughter Anna Grace live on the family farm near Kings Mountain, NC.

Table of Contents

Foreword and Acknowledgments vii

Why the Civil War, and Why Do We Study it? ix

Section I Facts

Naming the War 1

Civil War Voices 2

Did You Know? Interesting Facts about the Civil War 11

Civil War Veterans Better Known for Other Achievements 14

Organization of the Armies 17

Section II Images

Civil War Begins 19

Generals 21

Soldiers 29

A Soldier's Life 35

Battles and Battlefields 40

Technology and the War 49

Weapons of War 54

War on the Water 59

Caring for the Sick, Wounded, and Dead 65

Prisoners of War 68

Civilians Caught up in the War 71

Women and the War 76

African Americans and the War 81

The Civil War and Native Americans 86

The War Ends 89

Reconstruction 91

Section III Figures

Numbers and Losses (Overall) 93

Strength of the Union Army 94

Losses in Major Battles 94

Number of Engagements by State 108

Alternate Names of Battles 110

Troops Furnished by the Various States 112

Causes of Battle Wounds (Union) 115

Major Causes of Death (Union) 116

Principal Union Prisons (Peak Occupancies and Deaths) 117

Principal Confederate Prisons (Deaths) 119

Section IV Miscellany

African Americans in the Civil War 121

Native Americans in the Civil War 123

Glossary of Civil War Terms 125

Civil War Points of Interest 129

Civil War Bookshelf 146

Civil War on the Web 154

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