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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 Ambrose Bierce

by Edward Alexander Moore

by Oliver Optic, Edward Stratemeyer

by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

by Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt

by Abraham Lincoln

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

by Mary Ann Webster Loughborough

by Abraham Lincoln

by Stephen Crane

by Eugenia Dunlap Potts

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

by John Alexander Logan

by Herman Melville

by Stephen Crane

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by Jr. John Fox

by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon

by William Pittenger

by Dudley Landon Vaill

by John Alexander Logan

by Abraham Lincoln

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Edward Payson Roe

by Winston Churchill

by Walt Whitman

by Abraham Lincoln

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Mary Johnston

by Abraham Lincoln

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by William Wood

by Edward Duffy

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

by Fannie A. Beers

by Oliver Optic

by Oliver Optic

by J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones

by Herman Melville

by Andre Norton

by Ephraim Douglass Adams

by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

by John Esten Cooke

by John Esten Cooke

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

by Dolly Sumner Lunt

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by James Henry Rochelle

by George Washington Cable

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

by John G. (John George) Nicolay

by Samuel R. (Samuel Rush) Watkins

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by Edward Payson Roe

by John McElroy

by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

by Edward Bellamy

by Winston Churchill

by Frederick Phisterer

by J. (John) Wilkinson

by Wayne Whipple

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by A. (Alonzo) Cooper

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

by Theodore Reichardt

by Philip Henry Sheridan

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by John Alexander Logan

by John Alexander Logan

by Oliver Optic

by Ambrose Bierce

by Basil Wilson Duke, Thomas Henry Hines, Frank E. Moran, William Pittenger, A. E. (Adolphus Edwards) Richards, W. H. (William Henry) Shelton, Orlando B. Willcox, John Taylor Wood

by John Beatty

by Abraham Lincoln

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Philip Henry Sheridan

by John Alexander Logan

by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Lee

by Abraham Lincoln