Generals in Blue and Gray: Davis's generals

Prior to the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln had no experience in military service, but he had the advantages of a government structure and the remnants of an army in place. Jefferson Davis was a graduate of West Point, a veteran of the Mexican War, and a Secretary of war under the Pierce Administration, but he had to start from scratch to construct both a government and an army. This two-volume set uses biographical sketches of key generals on each side to examines the actions of Lincoln and Davis, as commanders-in-chief. Each volume contains more than twenty stand-alone biographical chapters that, if taken together, tell the story of the Civil War.