Wartime letters include correspondence of both Union and Confederate sympathizers and soldiers of all ranks. Authentic period photos accompany insightful letters Lincoln, several generals, Whitman, Alcott, and lesser-known individuals.
Before "Little Women" brought her wider fame, Alcott achieved recognition for her accounts of her work as a volunteer nurse in an army hospital. Written during the winter of 1862-63, her lively dispatches revealed the desperate realities of battlefield medicine as well as the tentative first steps of women in military service.
Intelligent, deeply moving firsthand account of Civil War military campaigns by former U.S. President and key figure in the Union's victory. Perhaps the finest military memoir ever written, the volume offers an incomparable vantage point on that conflict. Includes Grant's letters to his wife, photographs by Mathew Brady, maps, and more.
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