The Civil War
Subtitle: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It
Edition: First Printing
Publisher: The Library of America—221
Published: 2012
Place of publication: USA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 428
Copyright date: 2012
First sentence: From the beginning of hostilities in April 1861, Frederick Douglass had advocated enlisting black soldiers and had criticized the Lincoln administration for not making the destruction of slavery an essential aim of the war.