Stand in the day of battle

The second volume in William C. Davis's Civil War trilogy The Imperiled Union: 1861-1865 takes up the story after its first world-shaking and bloody eighteen months. Mr. Davis shows that by mid-1862 (nobody had expected that the war would last so long), the war had become at once a civil war and a revolution, a circumstance that would forever alter the way Americans saw each other as well as the world's perception of the United States.