A detailed history of one week during the Civil War in which the American president assumed control of the nation’s military. One rainy evening in May, 1862,

"The first study to detail the important week in March 1862 when, for the first and only time in the country's history, a sitting president took direct control

NOT JUST ANOTHER CIVIL WAR BOOK. Many books have been written about the causes of the Civil War; however "Lincoln Takes Command" is different in that it was res

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s “lively and absorbing” biography of Ulysses S. Grant and his leadership during the Civil War (The New York Times