The Civil War Relived in 40 Stories! Between the first shots fired at
Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lee's surrender at Appomattox
Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed, as were
the lives of the soldiers and civilians who lived through the war. This
is an extraordinary collection of stories about that epochal conflict,
bringing the victories and defeats, the valor and the heartbreak, alive
with personal intensity. Includes entries by: Ambrose Bierce Stephan
Crane Mark Twain Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant Walt Whitman Frederick
L. Hitchcock Louisa May Alcott Carlton McCarthy Abner Doubleday Theodore
Roosevelt and many others.