Stephen W. Sears
Birth date: July 27, 1932
Stephen W. Sears's Books
George Brinton McClellan ranks as the most controversial general of the Civil War. Beloved by the soldiers in the Army of the Potomac, his command of the Union’s premier army during the early years of the conflict generated a storm of criticism and sparked debates still being waged by historians tod...
The second volume of the Library of America’s primary-source history of the Civil War. What’s great about this series is the variety of voices. There are first-hand accounts of battles and political speeches, but also essays and other things from the likes of Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Louisa Ma...
A wonderful and detailed narrative that keeps the reader moving on. Yes, we all know and live the outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg. Sears gives us the big picture view starting after the death of Stonewall Jackson. Robert E. Lee comes up with a plan to invade the North. He sells his plan and ...
OMGG...this book was FANTASTIC. Probably the best book I have read on that period of time since Michael Bulingame's "Abraham Lincoln: A Life". An absolute must read for anyone who is a Civil War buff. This book reminded me of another book which told of Lincoln from what was being written about him d...