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<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618344195/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0618344195&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=edb1d6a640423279a1d72001664a0a91 Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam]</i>, (Mariner Books) Stephen W. Sears - Stephen Sears'<i>Landscape Turned Red</i> is considered to be the preeminent book on the Battle of Antietam. When it was published in 1983, Sears book received near universal acclaim and it still holds up extremely well. Sears book not only walks the reader through the battle, but clearly explains why the stakes were so high for both sides of this battle.

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807128031/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807128031&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e3bedc1d34a4ab0394b1409242343e9c Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864], (LSU Press) Gordon Rhea The Overland Series - Unlike Gallagher's and Jenner's more expansive book of essays, Rhea's book focuses on the battle for Cold Harbor. Despite the disproportionate losses by the Union, the Battle of Cold Harbor was a stalemate. Rhea goes into extraordinary detail about the battle and tries to demystify why the so many Union troops were killed. Cold Harbor is part of Rhea's Overland Campaign series published by LSU Press. The series also includes <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807118737/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807118737&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1a7a074dfdfd20472c7b5bc65ad4ee79 The Battle of the Wilderness]</i>, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807121363/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807121363&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=0dd2d7241d92d21a95949197fe89c647 The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern]</i>, and <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807125350/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807125350&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=14623c18b0d4a0619a022701fd1080d9 To the North Anna River]</i>. Rhea's book on the <i>Battle of the Wilderness</i> is also considered to be the classic book on this battle.

<b>The Battle of Gettysburg</b> - It is impossible to pick just one book on the Battle of Gettysburg. While there has been a longstanding debate over which battle was more important during the war - Antietam or Gettysburg, Gettysburg has become part of the American consciousness. Not only did it end the Confederacy's advance into the North, it gave birth to the most famous speech in American history. Each of these books attempts to answer different questions about Gettysburg. Harry Pfanz book <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807847305/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807847305&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=99ab2cbaf9236d0f568e9341bdfd8aec Gettysburg: The Second Day]</i>(UNC Press) focuses solely on the second day of the battle, while Stephen Sears takes a much more expansive look at the entire in battle [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618485384/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0618485384&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=d3659b96be7588346745720a4e005e02 Gettysburg](Mariner Books). Carol Reardon's book [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807854611/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807854611&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5a78632122521fd5b8ff8e9046e163dc Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory] (UNC Press) takes an entirely different approach by focusing on perhaps the most important charge in United States history. She explains why Pickett's Charge has been elevated to the status of an American myth and attempts to put the charge back into its proper historical place. Finally, Mark Grimsley and Brooks D. Simpson's <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803270771/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0803270771&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=13f92ebb8229f28b42f9fa539ae62a3a Gettysburg: A Battle Guide]</i> (Bison Books) is the battle guide on Gettysburg. The authors help the reader make sense of confusing and complicated battlefield better than any other book. This book essential if you plan on visiting [https://www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm The Gettysburg National Military Park].

[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199931682/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0199931682&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=77557c16fc84e192ad77dc4d567da088 The Civil War at Sea], (Oxford University Press) Craig Symonds - While not technically a Civil War battle book, <i>The Civil War at Sea</i> demonstrates how important the Union naval campaigns were to their victory. The book is broken up into sections covering the Union blockade of Confederate ports, the sieges of Charleston and Wilmington and the role of privateers during the war. Symonds does a fantastic job bringing a neglected aspect of the Civil War to the forefront.