"From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told throughthe improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British...

The outcome of the Civil War was determined lby the Army of the Potomac. this is a story of the Army of the Potomac, of the people in it, and of the nation it defended.

"Work compiles information from the Official Records for a complete look at every battle and major campaign the Army of the Potomac participated in during the Civil War. Organized chronologically by battle, the numbers are broken down by corps, divisions, brigades and regiments, with commander's names down to the regimental level, unit strengths, casualties and losses"--

"The Union Army of the Potomac was a hotbed of political activity during the Civil War. It proved a source of constant frustration for Abraham Lincoln, and its commander, George B. McClellan, even secured the Democratic nomination for president in 1864. In this innovative book, Zachery A. Fry uses untapped sources to recast our understanding of soldier ideology and presents the most comprehensive view yet of the army's political story. His work recounts...