The Union reader.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Longmans, Green
Published: 1958
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
Description: Excerpts from diaries, personal letters, contemporary newspaper accounts, memoirs, campaign records, etc., arranged chronologically. Brief editorial prefaces inserted.
Table of contents: title: 1861. Within Fort Sumter ; Cheer, boys, cheer ; Along the border ; Rebels ahead! ; War in the west ; Fort Laramie ; Battle of Port Royal; title: 1862. The enemy is Texas ; Tardy George ; One of the strangest naval combats ; Shiloh ; But you must act ; Unfit for human beings ; The capture and occupation of New Orleans ; A change in Virginia ; We must learn righteousness ; Maryland invaded ; I think he should be engaged ; Battle of Fredericksburg ; A day in a hospital; title: 1863. The grand terpsichorean festival ; Chancellorsville ; The second Louisiana ; Our present duty to our country ; Gettysburg ; The fall of Vicksburg ; The draft ; The Gettysburg address ; The battle of Chattanooga; title: 1864. Fresh from Abraham's bosom ; Bushwhackers ; The Alabama and the Kearsarge ; Andersonville ; Sherman ; Sheridan at Winchester ; Victory for Christmas; title: 1865. Peace conference ; The second inaugural ; All going finely ; Raising the flag at Sumter.