363 pages, pictorial wrappers, very good. From the publisher: Written by America's foremost Civil War historian, this is the story of Lincoln's famous Army of the Potomac during the early years of the Civil War, when it was under the command of the dashing General George B. McClellan. He believed he had been divinely chosen as the instrument of the Republic's salvation and in fact - for a brief time - convinced both the country and his troops that this was so. However, h e failed to realize the realities of the war and a frustrated Abraham Lincoln removed him from his post. Mr. Lincoln's Army is an account gathered from diaries, letters and published reports of ordinary foot soldiers, who discovered that their skylarking 'picture book war' was grim and deadly. It acknowledges that the most important thing about war is the men who fight it.

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR UNITED STATES MILITARY HISTORY