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Good for you for your desire to do a good job. The nation's founding and the Revolutionary War is good stuff.

But if if your interest is the CW in particular then have a look at
The Impending Crisis by David M. Potter. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977 and has held up very well. It greatly helped my understanding of the background.

The beauty of Gettysburg is that there is very little contemporary development around; no skyscrapers or bridges near by. I appreciate that (these battlefields) is one of the few places where the scene you're looking at is pretty close to what the soldiers saw. The trees are different, but it's pretty close.

I got this book, and it was fun to take around the battlefields

https://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-Then-Now-Touring-Battlefield/dp/1577470036/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=gettysburg+now+and+then+photo&qid=1573670936&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Lee-Considered-General-History-America-ebook/dp/B00ZVEM3T6

"Lee Considered" by Alan T Nolan.... Its a perfect counterweight to the gentlemen General Myth about Lee being all but invincible

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Film-like animated sequence I created of seven photographs of John Wilkes Booth posing with two unidentified men, possibly actors, said to be taken in 1861. The images were probably meant to be used as promotional material for an unknown theatrical production. Photograph source.

The context of the photographs I think might be found in the book "John Wilkes Booth Himself," which is said to have many rare photographs of Booth, but second hand copies cost more than 300 dollars as there were only 1000 copies of the book printed.

I'd definitely recommend this book on the 11th Virginia Cavalry which is part of the Virginia Regimental Histories series. My 2nd-great grandfather was in the 3rd Virginia Cavalry and the book on that by Thomas P. Nanzig as part of the series gave an incredible amount of detail and was everything I was looking for. I can pretty much say now exactly where the regiment was and what they were doing on every day of the war. The series is expensive because I think they only printed in 1,000 copies each (the one I have is marked 760 of 1,000 and signed by the author) but I don't think you'll be disappointed. It will be an heirloom.

Another way to find out more about how he was captured is if you know the exact date then look it up in a book like The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861-1865 and if you know the general location it should be pretty easy to tell. I had to do this for another of my 2nd-great grandfathers who was in the Alabama cavalry which isn't as well documented as the Virginia cavalry so there is no in-depth regimental history devoted to it, but I knew about where he was and the date so I was able to figure it out.

I misremembered; Foote plays the part of Metcalfe, while numerous others play the other parts throughout the story. Heres the link

Not exactly about mobilization but a lot of it is covered in this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Men-Fire-Forrest-Campaign-Decided/dp/0465031854

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0082W6NNG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Get a hold of a copy of this https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Civil-War-Bullets-Cartridges/dp/0939631946