num_pages: 1264
description: In July 1883 just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg a group of editors at The Century Magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired a brainstorm: Why not let the magazines 125000 readers in on the conversation by offering a series of papers on some of the great battles of the war to be written by officers in command on both sides. The articles would be written by generals Union and Confederate alike who had commanded the engagements two decades earlieror if he were not living by the person most entitled to speak for him or in his place. The pieces would present both sides of each major battle and would be fair and free of politics. In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War the most enduring entries from the classic four-volume series Battles and Leaders of the Civil War have now been edited and merged into one definitive volume. Here are the best of the immortal first-person accounts of the Civil War originally published in the pages of The Century Magazine more than a hundred years ago.Hearts Touched by Fire offers stunning accounts of the wars great battles written by the men who planned fought and witnessed them from leaders such as General Ulysses S. Grant General George McClellan and Confederate captain Clement Sullivane to men of lesser rank. This collection also features new year-by-year introductions by esteemed historians including James M. McPherson Craig L. Symonds and James I. Robertson Jr. who cast wise modern eyes on the cataclysm that changed America and would go down as the bloodiest conflict in our nations history.No one interested in our countrys past will want to be without this collection of the most popular and influential first-person Civil War memoirs ever published.
language: English
title: Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
publisher: Modern Library