Remembering the Civil War: The Conflict as Told by Those Who Lived It

By Michael Barton and Charles Kupfer

Book Overview

In Remembering the Civil War, historians Michael Barton and Charles Kupfer carefully select excerpts from the memoirs of key participants and weave them together to tell the story of the war in a single volume. Contributors include Union generals Ulysses Grant, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, W.T. Sherman, Abner Doubleday, and Philip Sheridan. Confederate authors include Robert E. Lee, Gen. James Longstreet, Cpl. Sam Watkins, Lt. John W. Worsham, Col. Edward Porter Alexander, Capt. John Wilkinson, and Jefferson Davis. Diaries and letters provide soldiers' perspectives of what fighting was like on the ground.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493059335
• ISBN13: 9781493059331
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"