Civil War
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Civil War
（Eyewitness guides, 114）
Dorling Kindersley, c2000 , , 2001 [printing]
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DK eyewitness books
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Eyewitness Civil War explores the adventure and lure of America's greatest conflict. It introduces fascinating figures such as Southern spy Belle Boyd forgotten slave hero Robert Smalls and towering leaders Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. It examines Bull Run Gettysburg and other battles that changed the history of a nation. And as only Eyewitness books can Civil War looks at the personal side of this conflict - from the homespun uniforms worn by Confederate volunteers to rousing military marches and propaganda posters to the touching photographs of fighting men and the people they left behind.
Table of Contents
- The long argument
- slave life
- the election of 1860
- the underground railroad
- secession
- raising armies
- everyone's war
- women in wartime
- the young and the old
- outfitting armies
- Bull Run
- the sick and wounded
- great commanders
- arming soldiers
- black volunteers
- the horsemen
- army camp life
- field artillery
- Gettysburg
- the siege of Vicksburg
- northern life
- Confederate culture
- war on the water
- the secret war
- the march to the sea
- the Confederacy surrenders
- the fates of two leaders
- a life of freedom
- a new era begins.
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