Civil War (1860-1865), Volume 1
By: Editor, James M. McPherson
Edition: 1st edition
Series: Defining documents in American history
Publisher: Salem Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781429837460
First sentence: The Civil War is the mos written-about subject in American history —for good reason.
Description: "Edited by James M. McPherson, PhD a preeminent civil war scholar and historian, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor Emeritus of United States History, Princeton University and Pulitzer Prize winner in History for Battle Cry Freedom, Defining Documents in American History: Civil War (1860-1865) surveys key documents produced during the Civil War with special attention devoted to the war-time policies of President Abraham Lincoln and the 37th US Congress. A special feature of the volumes is the inclusion of letters and diaries by soldiers and civilians writing about their experiences. The two volumes are organized into several chapters that cover the progress of the war beginning with early debates on secession, through wartime events on the political and battle fronts and concludes with a look toward the issues of race and reconstruction."--
Notes: Contains primary source documents.
Includes illustrations and maps.
Table of contents: title: The approaching storm
pagenum: 1; title: The sectional crisis
pagenum: 107; title: The politics of war
pagenum: 150; title: War stories
pagenum: 256