The Military History of the Civil War Book Report

The Military History of the Civil War book report

The book 'Military History of the Civil War' written by W.B. Woods and J.S. Edmonds, gives us in depth details of a war that shaped this country into what it is. This book is about a war that tore families apart; pinned brother against brother, father against son, and friends against each other. This book is about the civil war, more specifically, the military history. This book takes a bloody war and focuses on the most savage part, the plans of groups in battles, plans to have fathers seek up on their sons, brothers to kill brothers, and friends to lose friends.

This book is surprisingly, originally wrote in 1937, 72 years after the end of the civil war. While being a secondary source, however, it is extremely accurate and precise. Most people say that when a book is a secondary source it's not as helpful as a primary source. This book proves all of them wrong.

This book is a good choice for a history major focusing in civil war or a person that wants to join a military branch. Not only does it describe in detailed accounts battle scenes but it tells of the military strategy involved in making the plans. This book could be studied by students preparing for a military path and maybe someday save their life.

The author wrote this for multiple reasons, to inform people of our past and to inform history majors or history, war, buffs of the military strategies that were implemented during the civil war. W.B. Wood and J.S. Edmonds wrote, arranged, this book as a descriptive piece of literature intended to take people to the front lines of this war

How they managed to be so descriptive is insane to think about. They bring in events in the battles that occurred during the civil war and shine light on the strategy that was used to win the war. The amount of research that went into the production of this book is almost incomparable. The exorbitant amount of time that was spent writing this book to help students or military personnel build on to their previous knowledge of the civil war or military tactics.

At the beginning of the book, the publishers note states, "thus book, which is a minor classic in its own field, has been out of print for some years. It has, however, always been in moderate demand and on the approach of the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the civil war it has been thought fit to reprint