Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era (Beverton) Book cover type:Paperback 1863 provides a day by day account alternately 1863 provides a day by day account of the preliminary phases of the campaign and follows the two armies from their positions in central Virginia after the Battle of Chancellorsville to their final arrival on the battlefield Holbrook Bradley landed with the 29th Division on the Normandy beaches The outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 exploded this illusion by showing that the United States was in fact not immune to domestic political instability Joining a growing community of historians who study the war in a global context