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Selections from the accounts of the participants describe the major events and battles of the Civil War

Offers a composite portrait of the Southern soldier during the Civil War

A collection of articles written by Civil War commanders on both sides describing their campaigns and individual battles, emphasizing their strategy and tactics and results, and including the intimate, personal details of participants

These selections cover operations in Canada, Europe, and on the high seas as well as in the battle areas and other sections of the United States. (Publisher).

"Between 250,000 and 500,000 boy soldiers fought in the U.S. Civil War. Many more children were exposed to the war's ravages in their home towns - in Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Columbia, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Harper's Ferry, Richmond, and Vicksburg - and during Sherman's March to the Sea. Based on eyewitness accounts of 120 children, ages four to sixteen, Reluctant Witnesses tells their story of the war: their experience of the hardships they endured...

With kaleidoscopic, trenchant, path-breaking insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses Grantś Memoirs yet published. One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grantś landmark memoir, and expands the Civil War backdrop against which this monumental American life is typically read. No previous edition combines such a sweep...

Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War.

An absorbing, first-person Civil War memoir from the perspective of a foot soldier looking back some thirty years later.

Describes the Civil War through the letters of the people who fought it on both sides, including the voices of women on the front and the experiences of African Americans.

Presents the lives of common soldiers, how they lived, fought, and died.