One thing that really frames my reading of Civil War history when I was younger was how much perspective and deference was paid to the Confederate side of the story. I grew up in Virginia so this was not necessarily excusable, but understandable and of course not shocking. It was not balanced remotely. This history comes from Bruce Catton. These three books, this being the first, specifically tell the story of the formation, the command, and the battles of the “Army of the Potomac” the […]