Living History the Civil War

A wide-ranging, authoritative collection of first-person accounts and landmark documents —from soldiers and slaves, poets and politicians, generals, mothers, children and more— details every aspect of the Civil War experience. Letters, songs, poems, newspaper reports, diaries, speeches, private memorandums, military orders, congressional amendments— all combine in a powerful and unfiltered portrait of the war, straight from the mouths, pens, and hearts of those who lived it.