The Civil War Relived in 40 Stories!
Between the first shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed, as were the lives of the soldiers and civilians who lived through the war. This is an extraordinary collection of stories about that epochal conflict, bringing the victories and defeats, the valor and the heartbreak, alive with personal intensity.
Includes entries by:
Ambrose Bierce
Stephan Crane
Mark Twain
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Walt Whitman
Frederick L. Hitchcock
Louisa May Alcott
Carlton McCarthy
Abner Doubleday
Theodore Roosevelt
and many others.