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Series
The Civil War in the West is Jeff Shaara’s four-volume sequence about campaigns beyond the more familiar eastern battlefields. It begins with A Blaze of Glory at Shiloh and continues through Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Atlanta and Sherman’s final campaigns across Georgia and the Carolinas.
The books follow Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Albert Sidney Johnston and other commanders alongside ordinary soldiers whose experiences connect the separate campaigns. The series shows how control of rivers, railways and interior territory steadily weakened the Confederacy and made Union victory possible.
Reading order
In spring 1862, Confederate forces in the western theatre have been driven from Kentucky and much of Tennessee. Albert Sidney Johnston gathers an army at Corinth and plans to strike Ulysses S. Grant near Pittsburg Landing before Don Carlos Buell can reinforce him. Grant, William Tecumseh…