Audio. Read by Grover Gardner.
Almost forty-seven hours relating the story of the middle of the war. In particular it deals with the rising star of Grant and his retinue, Sherman and Sheridan, although, as might be expected in a 1000 page book, it deals with a lot of other things, too--the changing leaders of the Army of the Potomoc, the un-exploited brilliance in Braxton Bragg, the growing peace movements, and oh just everything.
I find it interesting to see the similarities in Lee and Grant, even though they are very different in origin, in the sense that both come across as (mostly) calm professionals that don't need to artificially build themselves up. Of course, this being my only in-depth view of them, I have nothing to compare Shelby Foote's view with anyone elses.
Anyway, it interested me enough that I immediately got the even longer volume 3...I had let a month or two intervene between volumes one and two.