The Civil War: The Second Year Told By Those Who Lived It: by Stephen W. Sears

By Stephen W. Sears

The Library of America's formidable four-volume sequence maintains with this quantity that lines occasions from January 1862 to January 1863, an unforgettable portrait of the an important 12 months that became a secessionist uprising right into a conflict of emancipation. together with 11 never-before- released items, listed here are greater than a hundred and forty messages, proclamations, newspaper tales, letters, diary entries, memoir excerpts, and poems by way of greater than 80 individuals and observers, between them Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. supply, George B. McClellan, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clara Barton, Harriet Jacobs, and George Templeton powerful, in addition to infantrymen Charles B. Haydon and Henry Livermore Abbott; diarists Kate Stone and Judith McGuire; and struggle correspondents George E. Stephens and George Smalley. the decisions contain brilliant and haunting narratives of battles-Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, the gunboat battle at the Western rivers, Shiloh, the Seven Days, moment Bull Run, Antietam, Iuka, Corinth, Perryville, Fredericksburg, Stones River-as good as firsthand bills of existence and dying within the army hospitals in Richmond and Georgetown; of the influence of warfare on Massachusetts cities and Louisiana plantations; of the struggles of runaway slaves and the mounting fears of slaveholders; and of the deliberations of the cupboard in Washington, as Lincoln moved towards what he may name "the crucial act of my management and the good occasion of the 19th century": the innovative proclamation of emancipation.

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