Civil War eyewitness reports

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This book stands apart from other Civil War literature in capturing the experiences of women and men who, on and off the battlefield, were deeply affected by the vagaries of war. Straubing's panora...

This book stands apart from other Civil War literature in capturing the experiences of women and men who, on and off the battlefield, were deeply affected by the vagaries of war. Straubing's panoramic text of an America divided is comprised of firsthand accounts, most of which were not generally available before now. Read the testimonies of a Confederate woman who sympathized with the Union, and a Union woman who saw the New York draft riots; of a conscientious objector, and a Virginian caught up in the romance of destruction; of a soldier in the Indian wars; of reporters, prisoners, blacks and spies. Their voices--the voices of ordinary people struggling, and at times triumphing, during extreme strife, are a keen and candid register of the human experience in civil wartime.

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