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Step into a nation divided, where battlefield thunder, whispered legends, political fire, and private grief collide in the defining struggle of American history. This bookshelf gathers memoirs, speeches, fiction, poetry, and firsthand sketches that bring the Civil War to life from the halls of power to the hospital ward and the front lines. Here, courage and chaos march side by sideβand every voice carries the weight of a country being torn apart and remade.

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Richard Taylor

by James Longstreet

by Winston Churchill

by Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas) Wilson

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Louisa May Alcott

by John Alexander Logan

by Stephen Crane

by Oliver Optic, Edward Stratemeyer

by Edward Alexander Moore

by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

by Abraham Lincoln

by Eugenia Dunlap Potts

by Mary Ann Webster Loughborough

by Abraham Lincoln

by Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt

by John Alexander Logan

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant, Philip Henry Sheridan, William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

by Ambrose Bierce

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Stephen Crane

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by Dudley Landon Vaill

by John Alexander Logan

by Walt Whitman

by Herman Melville

by Stephen Crane

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by Ephraim Douglass Adams

by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon

by J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones

by Fannie A. Beers

by Jr. John Fox

by Oliver Optic

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by William Wood

by Abraham Lincoln

by Abraham Lincoln

by William Pittenger

by Philip Henry Sheridan

by Mary Johnston

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

by Edward Payson Roe

by Edward Payson Roe

by Andre Norton

by Abraham Lincoln

by Herman Melville

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

by Thomas Nelson Page

by George Washington Cable

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by John Alexander Logan

by John Alexander Logan

by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by A. (Alonzo) Cooper

by James Henry Rochelle

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by Oliver Optic

by Frederick Phisterer

by John Alexander Logan

by Dolly Sumner Lunt

by Edward Duffy

by J. (John) Wilkinson

by Wayne Whipple

by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

by John G. (John George) Nicolay

by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

by Samuel R. (Samuel Rush) Watkins

by John Beatty

by John Esten Cooke

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by John McElroy

by Edward Bellamy

by Philip Henry Sheridan

by Winston Churchill

by William Wells Brown

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by Abraham Lincoln

by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by George T. Ulmer

by Theodore Reichardt

by Winston Churchill

by John Esten Cooke

by Abraham Lincoln

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

by Abraham Lincoln

by Philip Henry Sheridan

by Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman