Mark L. Bradley

This is a masterful account of the last days of the Civil War in North Carolina, analyzing the battles, conflicts, and negotiations between Confederate General Joseph Johnston and Union Major General William Sherman and their armies. The content is thorough, wide-ranging, and detailed. The style is engaging and fluent. The author is a professed admirer of General Johnston and The Army of Tennessee, and gives them a glowing accolade. He is less favorable to Major General Sherman, whom he show more frequently criticizes, but his overall account is scrupulously fair. For a serious academic study, this one is remarkably entertaining, and I recommend it to everyone with an interest in the conclusion of the Civil War. show less

A well researched and scholarly work that puts the battle into focus and makes each hour of the conflict easy to understand. The excellent Maps make the battle simple to follow whether you are reading this from the armchair in your den or the Cotton fields and thickets of the actual battlefield.