The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War (2001)

by David J. Eicher

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A military history of the Civil War from Fort Sumpter to Lee's surrender at Appomottax covers the Western theater, war strategies, major and obscure battles at land and sea, and the role of railroads and African Americans.

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2001

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American Civil War (1861 | 1865)

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15th Regiment Alabama Infantry

2nd Arkansas Light Artillery

33rd Regiment Alabama Infantry

3rd Arkansas Light Artillery

7th Ohio Cavalry

80th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Abel Streight

Appomattox Campaign

Arthur Middleton Manigault

Battle of Amelia Springs

Battle of Appomattox Court House

Battle of Arlington Mills

Battle of Ball's Bluff

Battle of Barbourville

Battle of Beaver Dam Creek

Battle of Belmont

Battle of Big Bethel

Battle of Buck Head Creek

Battle of Camp Wildcat

Battle of Chaffin's Farm

Battle of Chickasaw Bayou

Battle of Drewry's Bluff

Battle of East Cemetery Hill

Battle of Eltham's Landing

Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861)

Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1863)

Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip

Battle of Gaines's Mill

Battle of Gettysburg, First Day

Battle of Gettysburg, Second Day

Battle of Glendale

Battle of Globe Tavern

Battle of Griswoldville

Battle of Hanover Court House

Battle of Haw's Shop

Battle of High Bridge

Battle of Honey Hill

Battle of Iuka

Battle of Jenkins' Ferry

Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road

Battle of Johnsonville

Battle of Kelly's Ford

Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

Battle of McDowell

Battle of Mill Springs

Battle of Mine Run

Battle of Monocacy

Battle of Namozine Church

Battle of North Anna

Battle of Oak Grove

Battle of Peebles's Farm

Battle of Sailor's Creek

Battle of Savage's Station

Battle of Seven Pines

Battle of Spring Hill

Battle of Totopotomoy Creek

Battle of Trevilian Station

Battle of Vienna, Virginia

Battle of White Oak Swamp

Battle of Yellow Tavern

Benjamin Huger (general)

Bibliography of American Civil War battles and campaigns

Bibliography of the American Civil War

Charles DeWitt Anderson

Charles Ellet Jr.

Charles Pomeroy Stone

Chattanooga Campaign

Chickamauga Campaign

Colton Greene

Columbia, South Carolina in the American Civil War

Conclusion of the American Civil War

Eastern Theater of the American Civil War

Field artillery in the American Civil War

First Battle of Fort Fisher

First Battle of Fort Wagner

Franklin–Nashville Campaign

Gettysburg Campaign

Helena Artillery

Henry Eugene Davies

Indiana in the American Civil War

List of Confederate States Army officers educated at the United States Military Academy

Louis H. Carpenter

Marching Through Georgia

Maryland Campaign

Maryland Line (CSA)

Mississippi River campaigns in the American Civil War

Nicholas M. Nolan

Northern Virginia Campaign

Overland Campaign

Pleasant J. Philips

Price's Raid

Retreat from Gettysburg

Robert Alexander Cameron

Second Battle of Corinth

Second Battle of Petersburg

Second Battle of Ream's Station

Second Battle of Winchester

Skirmish at Terre Noire Creek

Theophilus Francis Rodenbough

Third Battle of Petersburg

Third Battle of Winchester

Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War

Trigg's Arkansas Battery

Tullahoma Campaign

Ulysses S. Grant and the American Civil War

Western Theater of the American Civil War

Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Battle of Raymond

Winchester, Virginia in the American Civil War

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A military history of the Civil War from Fort Sumpter to Lee's surrender at Appomottax covers the Western theater, war strategies, major and obscure battles at land and sea, and the role of railroads and African Americans.

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