A fresh and bold re-examination of the epic year that was the "spring of the confederacy".
From blood-stained battlefields to smoke-filled antechambers of political power-brokers, 1862 was a year of tumultuous events in America. Flush from its victories of the previous year, the Confederacy stood poised and powerful - tantalisingly close to sundering the shackles of the Union and establishing itself as a new and independent nation-state on the North American continent.
The battles, political events, personalities, and innovative weapons of war are re-examined, and often illuminated with new analysis and information, by some of America's foremost historians and scholars including: James M McPherson, Stephen W Sears, Tom Wicker, Geoffrey Perret, and many more.
'The Civil War Reader: 1862' is an invaluable introduction and an important single-volume source to the conflict that irrevocably changed America.
