The Biggest Battles of the Civil War

When the first shots of the Civil War were fired, both sides expected a quick victory―and both sides were dead wrong. As battles raged across more than 20 states for four years, the casualty rates climbed ever higher. From the Battle of Gettysburg to the Battle of Antietam, young readers will get moment by moment accounts of what happened in the war’s biggest battles to cause the massive devastation that still scars the nation today.