Books in the This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields series

Provides an overview of the battles and an on-site tour to help both serious students and casual visitors get the most out of a visit to Chickamauga and Chattanooga. This guide emphasizes how the opposing armies used terrain and how that terrain shaped the course of each battle.

A guide to the sites in Maryland and West Virginia associated with the Antietam campaign, including excursions to Harpers Ferry and South Mountain. Thorough descriptions and analyses, augmented with vignettes and numerous maps, it conveys the mechanics as well as the human experience of the campaign.

Suitable for serious student and casual visitor alike that makes plain the sweep of events and the geography of the battlefield, this guidebook was created by scholars who have walked the battlegrounds, consulted with local experts and park guides, and studied the testimony left behind by the participants.

Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove were three of the most important battles fought west of the Mississippi River during the Civil War. They influenced that region by shaping Union military efforts while contributing to Confederate defeat. This book provides a detailed guide to these battlefields, and the major sites of each engagement.

Dealing with Civil War history, this guide gives a clear picture of the setting at the time of engagement, who was where, and when the battle progressed. Designed to lead the readers on a one-day tour of one of the most important battlefields of the war, it provides directions to the key locations in a manner reflecting how the battle unfolded.

This volume is the essential guide to the Manassas battlefields, site of two of the Civil War's critical campaigns. Ethan S. Rafuse provides a clearly organised, thorough and uniquely insightful account of both campaigns, along with expert analysis and precise directions for armchair traveller and battlefield visitor alike.