The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things....
Vann Woodward, assessing the America that emerged from the war\'s ashes..
McPherson, on the political dimensions of the struggle; and C.
Fields, on the freeing of the slaves
Shelby Foote, on the war\'s soldiers and commanders
James M.
Fehrenbacher, on the war\'s origins
Barbara J.
The Civil War also includes essays by our most distinguished historians of the era: Don E.
Lee, but genteel Southern ladies and escaped slaves, cavalry officers and common foot soldiers who fought in Yankee blue and Rebel gray.
Now Geoffrey Ward\'s magisterial work of History is available in a text-only edition that interweaves the author\'s Narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through the cataclysmic trial of our nationhood: not just Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Robert E.
It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads: the suffering, the enormous tragedy of the whole thing.- Shelby Foote, from The Civil War When the illustrated edition of The Civil War was first published, The New York Time hailed it as a treasure for the eye and mind.
The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things...
