In The Civil War in the Wester Theater, 1862, author Charles R. Bowery Jr. examines the campaigns and battles that occurred during 1862 in the vast region between the Appalachian Mountains in the east and the Mississippi River in the west, and from the Ohio River in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south. Notable battles discussed include Mill Springs, Kentucky; Forts Henry and Donelson, Tennessee; Shiloh, Tennessee; Perryville, Kentucky; Corinth and Iuka, Mississippi; and Stones River, Tennessee. Middle school through academic level students may be interested in this resource as a supplemental reading text or reference for research about the United States Civil War as part of required curriculum in American History classes. Military leaders, strategists, military science students, and historians, especially military historians, and Civil War buffs may be interested in this historical reference. Middle school, high school, undergraduate and graduate university libraries, public libraries, and Federal/State/Municipal Government libraries may find this American History reference suitable in their reference circulation desks to be available for their patrons.