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Rent Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields: Discovering America's Hallowed Ground (selections)
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Narrator: Robertson Dean
Format: Abridged-CD
Publisher: Random House
Published: Apr 2007
Genre: Travel - United States
Retail Price: $29.95
Discs: 6
Synopsis
In this combination history and travel guide, historical novelist Jeff Shaara selects 10 key battlefields of the Civil War, telling what happened at each, why the battle was important, and what a modern-day traveler will see when visiting the site. Shaara's descriptions and commentary are enhanced by maps as well as by vintage and modern-day photographs. The battlefields covered are Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chicamauga, the wilderness and Spotsylvania (West of Fredericksburg, Virginia), New Market, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg.