The complete Civil War road trip guide : more than 500 sites from Gettysburg to Vicksburg
(2016, original release: 2009)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
917.3/WEEKS,M

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 917.3/WEEKS,M Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Woodstock, VT : The Countryman Press, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2016
EDITION
Second edition
DESCRIPTION

xxii, 665 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781581573374, 1581573375, 9781581573374
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Original edition has subtitle: Ten weekend tours and more than 400 sites, from Antietam to Zagonyi's Charge

Part I. The war in the west -- The far west -- The Middle Mississippi Valley: from Cairo to Memphis -- The Lower Mississippi Valley: Vicksburg and the Red River Campaign -- America's heartland and the drive for Atlanta -- Part II. The war along the coasts -- The Gulf Coast -- The Atlantic Coast -- Part III. The war in the east -- The war for the capitals: Richmond -- The war for the capitals: Washington -- Confederate invasions of the north -- The Shenandoah Valley -- Part IV. The wide-ranging war -- Other Civil War sites

Features ten different multi-day itineraries that lead visitors through every major campaign site, as well as lesser-known venues in unlikely places such as Vermont and New Mexico