Thousands of scenes photographed 1861-1865, with text by many special authorities. Volume 2 of 10 volume set. Includes the following: Foreword; The Rise of Lee (Cedar Mountain - Pope's Advance is Checked; The Second Battle at Bull Run; Antietam - The Invasion of the North; Fredericksburg - Disaster for a New Union Leader; Chancellorsville and Jackson's Flanking March); Opening the Mississippi (Baton Rouge - An Arsenal Recaptured; The Assault on Corinth - Rosecrans Holds Firm; The Mid-Winter Combat at Stone's River; The Sieges of Vicksburg and Port Hudson); The Crisis (Gettysburg); Along the Tennessee (Chickamauga - the Bloodiest Conflict in the West; The Battles on Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge); Engagements of the Civil War from August 1862 to April 1864 Inclusive (Map - Theater of Western campaign). Comprehensive index appears in Volume 10.

Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 2 of 10