A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865).

• Represents the most comprehensive coverage available relating to all aspects of the U.S. Civil War
• Features contributions from dozens of experts in Civil War scholarship
• Covers major campaigns and battles, and military and political figures, as well as non-military aspects of the conflict such as gender, emancipation, literature, ethnicity, slavery, and memory

Aaron Sheehan-Dean??is Fred C. Frey Professor at Louisiana State University. He is the author of??Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia??(2007) and the??Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War??(2008).