The Civil War Told by Those Who Lived It

by Aaron Sheehan-Dean

The definitive firsthand narrative of our nation's greatest conflict, now in a collector's boxed set: "Has there ever been another historical crisis of the magnitude of 1861-65 in which so many people were so articulate?" wondered Edmund Wilson in his 1962 classic Patriotic Gore. Reflecting the unprecedented, widespread literacy of nineteenth century Americans, an astonishing number of writers--white and black, male and female, soldiers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598533509
• ISBN13: 9781598533507
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 3624 Pages
• Weight: 7.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.3" x 6.4" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher