Publisher Description
With striking visuals from the Library of Congress’ unparalleled archive, The Library of Congress Illustrated Timeline of the Civil War is an authoritative and engaging narrative of the domestic conflict that determined the course of American history. A detailed chronological timeline of the war captures the harrowing intensity of 19th-century warfare in firsthand accounts from soldiers, nurses, and front-line journalists. Readers will be enthralled by speech drafts in Lincoln’s own hand, quotes from the likes of Frederick Douglass and Robert E. Lee, and portraits of key soldiers and politicians who are not covered in standard textbooks.
The Illustrated Timeline’s exciting new source material and lucid organization will give Civil War enthusiasts a fresh look at this defining period in our nation’s history.
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“Lavishly illustrated with many rare drawings and photographs, this detailed, narrative timeline of the Civil War will both instruct and delight all who are drawn to the gravitas of these events. Richer and more effective than E. B. Long’s classic The Civil War Day by Day, this work is laced with the poignant voices of participants, from presidents to privates, and it unblinkingly portrays the real war on battlefields as well as the tortured collective struggle to destroy American slavery.” —David W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, and American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.
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