With Tarnished Victory William Marvel concludes his sweeping four-part series--beginning with the Virginia and Atlanta campaigns in May 1864 and closing with the final surrender of Confederate forces in June 1865. In the course of that year the war grows ever more deadly, the home front is stripped to fill the armies, and the economy is crippled by debt and inflation, while the stubborn survival of the Confederacy seriously undermines support for Lincoln' war.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. Hardback, 480 pages