Great American Civil War stories /
"Unforgettable and timeless tales about the Civil War by some of America's best writers, including Ambrose Bierce, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Ulysses S. Grant, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Abner Doubleday, Theodore Roosevelt, and many, many others"--
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Essex, Connecticut :
Lyons Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Great American stories
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Table of Contents:
- Lincoln at War: Prominent Letters and Papers / by Abraham Lincoln
- Walt Whitman's Tribute to Lincoln And Other Civil War Poems Oh Captain! My Captain! And poems from Drum Taps / by Walt Whitman
- Facing Pickett's Charge The Union Army view from Cemetery Ridge / by Frank Aretas Haskell
- Catastrophe at Chancellorsville: The Death of Stonewall Jackson Chronicle of a devasting Confederate loss / by Colonel G.F.R. Henderson
- The Wages of Fear: A Campfire Discussion Troops talk about their worst nightmares / by George Cary Eggleston
- In the Ranks From a quiet Pennsylvania town to the battlefields and hospitals of this savage war, "Robbie" M'Bride, as he was known as a soldier, not yet a reverend, survived the war and returned home to tell the story of the fighting as seen "In the Ranks." / by Reverend R.E. M'Bride
- A Confederate Soldier Speaks His Mind The fortitude and bravery of Confederate soldiers-from officers to privates
- has been well documented in many accounts. Less often seen in print are stories that reveal the mind-set of the men in gray / by Carlton McCarthy
- America's Deadliest Day: One Officer's Story The Union Army called it Antietam. The Confederates Sharpsburg. by any name, it was the deadliest day in American history / by Frederick L. Hitchcock
- Among the Wounded One of America's greatest writers describes what he saw during his frequent visits to hospitals during the Civil War / by Walt Whitman
- On Confederate Battlefields In vivid prose, personal and in great detail, a Confederate soldier describes the marches, the battles, and the agony that followed / by Carlton McCarthy
- Love, Loss, and Army Life of the Common Soldier In the ranks of the Union Army, pain and drama sometimes went beyond the battlefields / by Leander Stillwell
- Army Life in a Black Regiment Once they were slaves; now they are soldiers
- armed and ready to fight / by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Drummer Boy from Maine He was so small that he often went unnoticed
- even by the enemy / by George T. Ulmer
- Vermont Sharpshooters Unique rifles and special skills made them the forerunners of the elite Special Forces units so well-known in today's military / by Wm. Y.W. Ripley
- Vicksburg During the Trouble Ulysses Grant and all the Union Army wanted this town on the Mississippi River. But the Confederate were determined to keep it / by Mark Twain
- Appomattox: How the War Ended Here are details and facts
- not myths
- on Lee's surrender, by the man who made it happen and was there. (Myth: Lee presenting sword; Grant handing it back. It never happened) / by Ulysses S. Grant