The author picks up the thread of the war in December, 1862, when Jefferson Davis travelled from Richmond to the Mississippi Valley drawn by grave problems of command, strategy and public morale, feeling that the war had entered its most dangerous period. 336, 1963) the urgencies and agonies of battle, the intricate manuevers of command, the terrible trials of leaders tested by fire whether at the front or at the capitals. The third and final volume in Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War summons once again, as in The Coming Fury and Terrible Swift Sword (p.
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