[Hebrews 11:6]

Thank you for this well-done report, Homer. The book excerpts and sequential battle maps are very illuminating. I'll be following closely henceforth.

Twenty years ago I read Shelby Foote's three-volume history. Will you be using it, too?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I love Foote’s 3-volume CW Narrative, but he was date- and chronology-averse. That is not surprising since he considered himself more of a novelist than a historian, but it makes excerpting for a timeline difficult. Bruce Catton’s Army of the Potomac trilogy is the same way. Fortunately for me his Civil War Narrative trilogy is easier to take apart in bite-sized bits of history.