This wide-ranging, authoritative collection of first-person accounts and landmark documents - from soldiers and slaves, poets and politicians, generals, mothers, children and more - details every aspect of the Civil War experience. Letters, songs, poems, newspaper reports, diaries, speeches, private memorandums, military orders, congressional amendments - all combine in a powerful and unfiltered portrait of the war, straight from the mouths, pens, and hearts of those who lived it.
Pages
936
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Tess Press
Release
September 15, 2000
ISBN
1579123538
ISBN 13
9781579123536
Living History: The Civil War the History of the War Between the States in Documents, Essays, Letters, Songs, Poems
This wide-ranging, authoritative collection of first-person accounts and landmark documents - from soldiers and slaves, poets and politicians, generals, mothers, children and more - details every aspect of the Civil War experience. Letters, songs, poems, newspaper reports, diaries, speeches, private memorandums, military orders, congressional amendments - all combine in a powerful and unfiltered portrait of the war, straight from the mouths, pens, and hearts of those who lived it.