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Jim B., I read the Shelby Foote Civil War series. Really good reads, but it is a huge investment in time.




Foote is the most passionate and stirring of all the Civil war Historians....but I have told XPT's own Son of the Lost Cause, Bornyo that, in my not-so-humble opinion, the most challenging, interesting, unique and even slightly CONTROVERSIAL treatment of the Cause(s), Course, Campaign(s) and Conclusion of the American Civil War (a.k.a. "War of Northen Agression/Conquest/Occupation") can be found by reading:
"Why The South LOST the Civil War" by Richard Beringer, with Hermann Hattaway, Archer Jones and William Still, Jr.

I wont spoil it, or launch my own version of Sherman's March by vomiting 50 pages across XPT's Landscape, but it is only 220 pages (give or take) and it really holds your interest for such a type of book (provided you ARE interested in the subject to begin with.....)
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