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The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It

Stephen W. Sears

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Description:The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It brings together letters, speeches, diary entries, newspaper and magazine articles, memoir excerpts, poems, and military reports to provide an unforgettable literary portrait of the crucial period in which the conflict was transformed from a secessionist rebellion into a war of emancipation.This volume opens in January 1862 with Frederick Douglass’s prophetic vision of an end to slavery—“That day is not far off”—and closes with a January 8, 1863, letter in which Abraham Lincoln declares: “broken eggs can not be mended. I have issued the emancipation proclamation, and I can not retract it.” Along the way are 148 pieces—eleven published here for the first time—by more than ninety participants, including Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, George B. McClellan, Robert E. Lee, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edward Porter Alexander, Harriet Jacobs, and George Templeton Strong, as well as soldiers Charles B. Haydon, Ephraim Anderson, Charles B. Labruzan, and Henry Livermore Abbott; civilian diarists Kate Stone, Judith W. McGuire, and John B. Jones; and war correspondents George E. Stephens and George Smalley. The selections include vivid and haunting narratives of famous battles—Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Shiloh, the Seven Days, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Iuka, Corinth, Perryville, Fredericksburg, Stones River—as well as firsthand accounts of the war on the western rivers and the first clash of the ironclads; of life and death in hospitals in Richmond and Georgetown; of the impact of war on Massachusetts towns and Louisiana plantations; of the mounting fears of slaveholders and the struggles of runaway slaves seeking freedom in contraband camps; and of the inner deliberations of the cabinet in Washington as Lincoln moved toward the revolutionary proclamation of emancipation.The Civil War: The Second Year includes headnotes, a chronology of events, biographical and explanatory endnotes, full-color endpaper maps, and an index.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It. To get started finding The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It brings together letters, speeches, diary entries, newspaper and magazine articles, memoir excerpts, poems, and military reports to provide an unforgettable literary portrait of the crucial period in which the conflict was transformed from a secessionist rebellion into a war of emancipation.This volume opens in January 1862 with Frederick Douglass’s prophetic vision of an end to slavery—“That day is not far off”—and closes with a January 8, 1863, letter in which Abraham Lincoln declares: “broken eggs can not be mended. I have issued the emancipation proclamation, and I can not retract it.” Along the way are 148 pieces—eleven published here for the first time—by more than ninety participants, including Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, George B. McClellan, Robert E. Lee, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edward Porter Alexander, Harriet Jacobs, and George Templeton Strong, as well as soldiers Charles B. Haydon, Ephraim Anderson, Charles B. Labruzan, and Henry Livermore Abbott; civilian diarists Kate Stone, Judith W. McGuire, and John B. Jones; and war correspondents George E. Stephens and George Smalley. The selections include vivid and haunting narratives of famous battles—Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Shiloh, the Seven Days, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Iuka, Corinth, Perryville, Fredericksburg, Stones River—as well as firsthand accounts of the war on the western rivers and the first clash of the ironclads; of life and death in hospitals in Richmond and Georgetown; of the impact of war on Massachusetts towns and Louisiana plantations; of the mounting fears of slaveholders and the struggles of runaway slaves seeking freedom in contraband camps; and of the inner deliberations of the cabinet in Washington as Lincoln moved toward the revolutionary proclamation of emancipation.The Civil War: The Second Year includes headnotes, a chronology of events, biographical and explanatory endnotes, full-color endpaper maps, and an index.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It. To get started finding The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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