Ok, seriously, I did not mean to make everything about the American Civil War currently...it just sorta turned out that way. And I have more that I want to read in that field...funny how things work out all at once.

Allen and Allen's book was not exactly new information to me. I think I'd heard most of it in one form or another from various sources including: classes, other books, Ken Burn's documentary, and my Dad. That is not entirely the point of this book. Oh, certainly for someone new to the subject, this is a great book to introduce the concept of The Civil War as a modern and tech-filled war; something that would be easy for history classes to gloss over or simply not mention. However, if you are looking for groundbreaking information, this simply isn't it.