The Real war will never get in the books

Compilation of diaries, letters and essays of Henry Brooks Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Lydia Maria Child, John Esten Cooke, John William De Forest, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charlotte Forten, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Herman Melville, William Gilmore Simms, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman.