Eyewitness to the Civil War

Eyewitness to the Civil War

Author: Stephen Garrison Hyslop

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780792262060

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Records the military, political, social, and cultural history of the Civil War through photographs, artifacts, period illustrations, maps, essays by historians, and firsthand accounts.


Eyewitness The Civil War

Eyewitness The Civil War

Author: DK

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2023-04-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0744062519

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North and South enter a conflict of more than 50 battles – discover how tensions exploded into a war that lasted four years. This book takes you through the history of one of the most important times in US history. Find out how Abraham Lincoln became president in 1860 and why he was assassinated. Discover the horror of enslaved life, and about the Underground Railroad that helped its victims escape. Eyewitness American Civil War shows both sides of the conflict in an equal light, allowing readers to consider all views. This museum-in-a-book uses striking full-color photographs of paintings, artifacts, and illustrations of battles, famous leaders, and much more along with amazing facts, infographics, statistics, and timelines to reveal this period of US history as never before. Part of DK’s best-selling Eyewitness series, which is now getting an exciting makeover, this popular title has been reinvigorated for the next generation of information-seekers and stay-at-home explorers, with a fresh new look, new photographs, updated information, and a new “eyewitness feature – fascinating first-hand accounts from experts in the field.


Witness to the Civil War

Witness to the Civil War

Author: Jim Lewin

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2006-08-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0060891505

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For four bloody years, the Civil War ravaged America. Those at home could only imagine the sights and events overtaking their husbands and sons, fathers and brothers who were under arms. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper was a primary source of information during those dark days. The reporters and artists who traveled with the armies were eyewitnesses to events, great and small, for their captivated readers. Sometimes the news was sensational. At other times it was tragic. But it was always eagerly sought after. Here are the accounts, in pictures and stories, of those first wartime journalists. Here are their reports from the front lines. Here is the Civil War's news as originally presented to loved ones at home. Here you will find images of the battles, the leaders, the camp life, and of the soldiers who gave their all for North and South. In your hands you hold the testimony of those who were Witness to the Civil War.


Tillie Pierce

Tillie Pierce

Author: Tanya Anderson

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books ™

Published: 2017-01-01

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 151245303X

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Imagine being fifteen years old, facing the bloodiest battle ever to take place on U.S. soil: the Battle of Gettysburg. In July 1863, this is exactly what happened to Tillie Pierce, a normal teenager who became an unlikely heroine of the Civil War (1861-1865). Tillie and other women and girls like her found themselves trapped during this critical three-day battle in southern Pennsylvania. Without training, but with enormous courage and compassion, Tillie and other Gettysburg citizens helped save the lives of countless wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. In gripping prose, Tillie Pierce: Teen Eyewitness to the of Battle Gettysburg takes readers behind the scenes. And through Tillie’s own words, the story of one of the Civil War’s most famous battles comes alive.


The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader

The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader

Author: Rod Gragg

Publisher: Regnery Publishing

Published: 2013-06-10

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 1621570436

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Examines the Battle of Gettysburg through letters, journals, articles, and speeches from the people who lived through those days.


The Civil War and Reconstruction [Second Edition]

The Civil War and Reconstruction [Second Edition]

Author: Prof. J. G. Randall

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 1216

ISBN-13: 1787200272

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This is a revised edition by David Herbert Donald of his former professor J. G. Randall’s book The Civil War and Reconstruction, which was originally published in 1937 and had long been regarded as “the standard work in its field”, serving as a useful basic Civil War reference tool for general readers and textbook for college classes. This Second Edition retains many of the original chapters, “such as those treating border-state problems, non-military developments during the war, intellectual tendencies, anti-war efforts, religious and educational movements, and propaganda methods [...] bearing evidence of Mr. Randall’s thoroughgoing exploration of the manuscripts and archives,” whilst it expands considerably on other original chapters, such as those relating to the Confederacy. Still other portions have been entirely recast or rewritten, such as the pre-war period chapters and Reconstruction chapters, reflecting factual updates since Randall’s original publication. A must-read for all Civil War students and scholars.


Eyewitness Gettysburg

Eyewitness Gettysburg

Author: Rod Gragg

Publisher: Regnery History

Published: 2016-06-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781621573012

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One hundred and fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the words of the soldiers and onlookers present for those three fateful days still reverberate with the power of their courage and sacrifice. Eyewitness Gettysburg gathers letters, journals, articles and speeches from the people who lived through those legendary three days. Tied together with narrative by historian Rod Gragg and illustrated with a wealth of photographs and images, Eyewitness Gettysburg will transport you to the battlefield, immersing you in the emotional intensity of the struggle of brother against brother for the future of the United States of America.


Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48

Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48

Author: G. Mortimer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-04-19

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0230512216

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The Thirty Years War - the first great pan-European war, and until the twentieth century the most terrible - ravaged Germany, but myth, propaganda and historical controversy have obscured its true nature. Another perspective is provided by the private diaries, memoirs and chronicles of soldiers and citizens who recorded their own experiences. War at the individual level is discussed and described using these sources, which are extensively quoted in their own words.


A Perfect Picture Of Hell

A Perfect Picture Of Hell

Author: Ted Genoways

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 2001-05-04

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780877457596

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From the shooting of an unarmed prisoner at Montgomery, Alabama, to a successful escape from Belle Isle, from the swelling floodwaters overtaking Cahaba Prison to the inferno that finally engulfed Andersonville, A Perfect Picture of Hell is a collection of harrowing narratives by soldiers from the 12th Iowa Infantry who survived imprisonment in the South during the Civil War. Editors Ted Genoways and Hugh Genoways have collected the soldiers' startling accounts from diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and remembrances. Arranged chronologically, the eyewitness descriptions of the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, and Tupelo, together with accompanying accounts of nearly every famous Confederate prison, create a shared vision