From the first shots at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor to Robert E. Lee's final defeat and surrender at Appomattox Court House, this book uses specially drawn battle maps to illustrate the major conflicts and campaigns of the Civil War. It describes famous clashes on the battlefield, the great sieges of Southern cities, and the campaigns that led McDowell through the Virginia Peninsula and William T. Sherman on his infamous March to the Sea. It also describes the war fought in the West and the conflict as it took place at sea.