This collection of essays explores some of the ways people monumented and memorialized the war—and how those markers have impacted our understanding of it. It is designed to shed new light and insight on the monuments and memorials that give us some of our most iconic and powerful connections to the battlefields and the men who fought there.

Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant would come to symbolize the armies they led as the spring campaign got underway. This book recounts some of the most famous episodes and most compelling human dramas from the marquee match-up of the Civil War.