Aaron Sheehan-Dean??is Fred C. Frey Professor at Louisiana State University. He is the author of??Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia??(2007) and the??Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War??(2008).

A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Represents the most comprehensive coverage available relating to all aspects of the U.S. Civil War Features contributions from dozens of experts in Civil War scholarship Covers major campaigns and battles, and military and political figures, as well as non-military aspects of the conflict such as gender, emancipation, literature, ethnicity, slavery, and memory