The Library of Congress illustrated time line of the Civil War
(2011)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
973.7/WAGNER,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2011
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
x, 254 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 34 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780316120685, 0316120685
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Torn asunder, February 1861 through April 1862 -- Reporting the war -- Toward a new birth of freedom, May 1862 through April 1863 -- Photographing the war -- The hard hand of war, May 1863 through April 1864 -- "To care for him who shall have borne the battle" -- "The heavens are hung in black," May 1864 through May 1865
Featuring first-hand narrative accounts from those who experienced the front lines, this illustrated chronology of the Civil War features portraits of soldiers and politicians, and drafts of speeches in Abraham Lincoln's own handwriting