As most Americans of the 1860s fixed their attention on the battlefields of Shiloh and Manassas; another war raged on the largely unsettled Western frontier. This splendid work by the author of The Patriot Chiefs restores this "other" Civil War to its true; epic proportions. With formidable scholarship and irresistible narrative ease; Alvin M. Josephy; Jr.; tells of the Yankee armada that foundered in the Louisiana bayous; of the bloody fighting on the ridges and prairies of the border states. where a Cherokee guerrilla leader was the last Confederate general to surrender -- two months after Appomattox: and of the U.S. Army's brutal campaigns against the Plains Indians in theaters as far apart as Minnesota and Colorado.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The second volume of Blair's exhaustive study of the Battle ...By Barry WattsThe second volume of Blair's exhaustive study of the Battle of the Atlantic suffers from the same problems as the first volume (Hitler's U-boat War: The Hunters: 1939-1942): overwhelming detail; inconsistent statistics; and woefully inadequate indices. Nevertheless; he is right in arguing that the U-boats never came close to cutting Britain's lifeline across the Atlantic despite the widespread belief that the U-boats came within a hair of doing so. The British historian Andrew Roberts agrees: however vicious and bitter the Battle of the Atlantic was; “Britain’s survival was never really in doubt; even though for most people on both sides it certainly did not look that way at the time." Andrew Roberts; The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War (London: Allen Lane; 2009); p. 374.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Thomas P. Wollamsecond in series; covers last half of WW20 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Far better conclusions in evaluating the evidence than many another readBy Andrew L.All any enthusiast could want in understanding the Battle of the Atlantic. Far better conclusions in evaluating the evidence than many another read.
