This riveting book, the sequel to Battlefields of the Civil War I, will take you on a ride back through time to the terrible days when men fought and died for causes they never really understood. On a dark day in 1861, the first shots of the Civil War crashed against the walls of Fort Sumter in South Carolina, thus setting in motion a chain of events that would tear the nation apart. For four years, the divided nation engaged in a conflict of arms that left more than 620,000 young Americans dead on the fields of war from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Mobile, Alabama from Fort McAllister on the Georgia coast to Wilson's Creek in Missouri. Here is a practical filed guide laden with tours, maps, and more than 100 photographs, old and modern. Carry it with you around the battlefield, or sit and home and enjoy the travel in the comfort of your armchair. The story and the action is described as it happened at each location along the way. You will hear the first shots of the war fired at Fort Sumter, travel with General Sherman on his march through Georgia, suffer the horrors of the Battles of the Seven Days, and join the fight in the trenches at Petersburg. Finally, you will follow General Lee's desperate retreat to Appomattox and be there for the poignant moments of his surrender to General Grant on April 12, 1862. Other chapters tell the stories of Pickett's Mill, Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, Fort Pulaski, Beaver Dam Creek, Gaines' Mill, Savage Station, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Perryville, Fort McAllister, and Kennesaw Mountain and the battles that were fought there. A special section describes the Civil War soldier and the equipment he had to work with.