Description
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.
The book includes enteries 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.
- Paperback
- Reprint
- Civil War re-lived in 40 stories
- 456 pages
- Dimensions: 9.75"H x 6.75"W
ISBN: 9781493060849