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An award-winning and highly recommended comprehensive reference set on the political, social, and military aspects of the American Civil War. The Encyclopedia of the American Civil War is the most comprehensive reference set ever compiled on this pivotal confrontation. Its five oversized volumes, rich with illustrations, maps, and primary source documents, offer more than 1,600 authoritative entries that chart the war's strategic aims, analyze diplomatic and political maneuvering, describe key military actions, sketch important participants, assess developments in military science, and discuss the social and financial impact of the conflict. Written by scholars, the essays are both authoritative and easily accessible to history buffs, students, and general readers.

In Culpeper County, Virginia, the troublesome Fogarty brothers have been raising havoc across the countryside in 1861, and when local lawman Will Brannon returns from another futile attempt to track them down, South Carolina has seceded from the Union. Will enlists, but so do the Fogartys. As the Brannon brothers answer the call to arms, the family struggles with dilemmas it had never considered.