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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 side—and every voice carries the weight of a country being torn apart and remade.

by Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Abraham Lincoln

by John McElroy

by Winston Churchill

by Philip Henry Sheridan

by L. P. (Linus Pierpont) Brockett, Mary C. Vaughan

by John G. (John George) Nicolay, John Hay

by Basil Wilson Duke

by John McElroy

by George T. Ulmer

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by D. A. (David Augustus) Dickert

by Abraham Lincoln

by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox

by William Wells Brown

by Walt Whitman

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

by Philip Henry Sheridan

by Philip Henry Sheridan

by Milo S. Hascall

by Joseph Warren Keifer

by Basil L. (Basil Lanneau) Gildersleeve

by Jenkins Lloyd Jones

by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox

by Willard W. Glazier

by George Little, James Robert Maxwell

by William Pittenger

by John R. Kinnear

by William A. Canfield

by Henry Morford, William Hepburn Armstrong, Jacob G. (Jacob Gellert) Frick

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by Randall Parrish

by Oliver Optic

by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

by George Washington Rains

by Jr. (John Torrey) John T. Morse

by John G. (John George) Nicolay, John Hay

by Charles Carleton Coffin

by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

by Raphael Semmes

by Adam Gurowski

by William A. Spicer

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

by William Ludlow

by James Madison Stone

by John Alexander Logan

by John M. (John Mullin) Batten

by Philip Henry Sheridan

by H. Beam Piper

by Leander Stillwell

by Cyrus Townsend Brady

by Abraham Lincoln

by Andrew Brown

by Charles H. Clarke

by William E. (William Edmund) Crane

by John McElroy

by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Fuller

by Philip Henry Sheridan

by Winston Churchill

by John McElroy

by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

by Sarah Morgan Dawson

by Frederick Trevor Hill

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Philip Henry Sheridan

by John Lorimer Worden, Samuel Dana Greene, H. Ashton Ramsay, Eugene Winslow Watson

by Harry Castlemon

by Austin Bishop

by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Leale

by O. P. (Orlando Phelps) Cutter

by E. H. (Edward Henry) Clement

by Harry Castlemon

by Carlton McCarthy

by Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle

by James Harvey Kidd

by Caroline Cowles Richards

by John McElroy

by Abraham Lincoln

by Edward Robins

by A. J. (Alfred James) Hill

by Oliver Optic

by Sarah Ellen Blackwell

by Joseph W. Grant

by Wayland Fuller Dunaway

by Edward Payson Roe

by John K. Shellenberger

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Charles King

by Alfred Burnett