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Originally Posted by RDaneel54
If you want more reading later...
1. War for the Union, Allan Nevins, Four Volumes.
2. The Civil War, Bruce Catton, Three volumes in one.
Nevins' works are particularly in depth.
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Thanks for the recommendations. I haven't heard of Nevins before. Going solely from the title, does this collection have any bias towards the Union?
I ask this because of something I noticed in my current read, the 3 volume set by Shelby Foote. I don't know if I would call it a bias toward the South (I am not very far in the books), but I noticed that in his description of Lincoln's suspension of habeus corpus, Foote did not explain it as a reaction to pro-Southern acts of sabotage in the vicinity of Washington, D.C. Other authors have explained this suspension as a defensive measure.
I have a book by Catton somewhere in the house, a big thick hardcover with many period photographs. I don't remember the title, so I don't know if this is the same work you mention.