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It's the greatest untold story of the Civil War...
...and one of the newest. While highly trained soldiers led by McClellan and others were battling to a bloody stalemate in the eastern United States, Midwestern farmers, shopkeepers, and country lawyers were shaping the war's outcome elsewhere. Dismissed by easterners as "armed rabble" or "drunkards," the Midwest's poorly trained and equipped volunteers were tough, confident, and led by the Union's best generals. But Eastern media gave most of their attention to eastern soldiers and battles and to this day Gettysburg, Antietam, and the Virginia battlefields are what Americans think of first when they think of the Civil War. In October 2007, however, a new book will tell the greatest untold story of the Civil War--where the war was really won and who won it.