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The Civil War : the first year told by those who lived it Cover Image Book

The Civil War : the first year told by those who lived it / Edited by Brooks D. Simpson, Stephen W. Sears, Aaron Sheehan-Dean.

Simpson, Brooks D., (editor.). Sears, Stephen W., (editor.). Sheehan-Dean, Aaron Charles, (editor.).

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Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems, songs, military reports, legal opinions, and memoirs, this collection brings together over 120 pieces by more than 60 men and women to create a firsthand narrative of the first year of the Civil War. Beginning on the eve of Lincoln's election in 1860 and ending in January 1862 with the appointment of Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War, the selections provide a sense of the immediacy, uncertainty, and urgency of events as the nation was torn asunder. Includes headnotes, a chronology of events, and biographical and explanatory endnotes.--Adapted from publisher description.

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  • ISBN: 9781598530889
  • ISBN: 1598530887
  • Physical Description: xxv, 814 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA, [2011]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 729-792) and index.

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