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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 Abraham Lincoln

by Eugenia Dunlap Potts

by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

by Mary Ann Webster Loughborough

by Abraham Lincoln

by John Alexander Logan

by Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt

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

by Ambrose Bierce

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Stephen Crane

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by Walt Whitman

by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon

by Dudley Landon Vaill

by John Alexander Logan

by J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones

by Stephen Crane

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Oliver Optic

by Herman Melville

by Abraham Lincoln

by Jr. John Fox

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Mary Johnston

by Ephraim Douglass Adams

by Fannie A. Beers

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by William Wood

by Abraham Lincoln

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by George Washington Cable

by William Pittenger

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

by John Alexander Logan

by Andre Norton

by Herman Melville

by Philip Henry Sheridan

by Edward Payson Roe

by John Alexander Logan

by Frederick Phisterer

by Edward Payson Roe

by J. (John) Wilkinson

by Wayne Whipple

by John G. (John George) Nicolay

by Abraham Lincoln

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by John Alexander Logan

by Winston Churchill

by Edward Duffy

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

by Samuel R. (Samuel Rush) Watkins

by William Wells Brown

by John Esten Cooke

by A. (Alonzo) Cooper

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by John McElroy

by James Henry Rochelle

by Philip Henry Sheridan

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

by Abraham Lincoln

by Edward Bellamy

by Oliver Optic

by Dolly Sumner Lunt

by Abraham Lincoln

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by Thomas Nelson Page

by John Beatty

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Abraham Lincoln

by Winston Churchill

by John Esten Cooke

by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox

by Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock

by George T. Ulmer

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Philip Henry Sheridan

by Theodore Reichardt