I am reading an interesting book right now called "Lincoln and His Generals." I started it only recently, but it's really good so far. Right now I'm reading about George McClellan and his relationship with Lincoln (which was mostly bad, and sometimes even sarcastic). The book is divided into segments with each one being written by a different historian. The one I'm up to will focus on the early campaigns of the war, and it looks like special attention will be paid to the Peninsula Campaign. This was a particularly disastrous campaign for the Union. General McClellan was trying to find the best route to capture Richmond and so he decided that instead of taking the overland route, he would do an amphibious landing on the Virginia peninsula. He reasoned that this way he would be able to avoid the bulk of the Confederate army (which was between DC and Richmond), and consequently have an easier shot at the Confederate capital. Unfortunately, after some initial success moving up the peninsula he was turned back once Robert E. Lee took over the South's forces.