Pvt. Edward Mott Robbins, USA, "Don't Belittle the Civil War" p. 468. Alexis de Tocqueville, "The Present and Probable Future Condition of the Three Races That Inhabit the Territory of the United States" p. 2 -- Rev. Samuel Vanderlip Leech, USA, The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It p. 5 -- "A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union" p. 19 -- Alexander H. Stephens, CSA, "The Corner-Stone Speech" p. 22 -- 1861 p. 29 -- Attack on Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861 -- Brig. Gen. Abner Doubleday, USA, "The Bombardment" p. 31 -- Battle of Bull Run, or Manassas, July 21, 1861 -- Charles Carleton Coffin, USA, "The Battle of Bull Run" p. 39 -- Everyday Life in Camp and Field p. 57 -- Pvt. Carlton McCarthy, CSA, "Cooking and Eating" p. 59 -- Cpl. Sam R, Watkins, CSA, "Please Pass the Butter" p. 69 -- John Billings, USA, "Life in Tents" p. 71 -- Pvt. Carlton McCarthy CSA, "On the March" p. 80 -- Alf Burnett, USA, "Sports in Camp" p. 87 -- 1862 p. 89 -- Battle of Pea Ridge, March 7-8, 1862 -- Col. Eugene A. Carr, USA, "Report on the Battle of Pea Ridge" p. 90 -- Monitor vs. the Merrimack, March 9, 1862 -- Lt. Samuel Dana Green, USN, Letter to His Mother p. 100 -- Battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, April 6-7, 1862 -- Lt. Ambrose Bierce, USA, "What I Saw of Shiloh" p. 107 -- Battle of Seven Pines, or Fair Oaks, May 31-June 1, 1862 -- Brig. Gen. Henry Naglee, USA, "The Battle of Seven Pines" p. 127 -- Seven Days Battles of the Peninsula Campaign, June25-July 1, 1862 -- Lt. Augustus A. Dean, CSA,"The Seven Days Battles" p. 137 -- Gaines's Mill, June 27, 1862 -- Theo V. Brown, USA, "Gaines's Mill" p. 142 -- Battle of Booneville July 1, 1862 -- Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, USA, "Battle of Booneville" p. 149 -- Battle of Second Manassas, or Second Bull Run, August 29-30, 1862 -- Lt. John H. Worsham, CSA, "Second Manassas" p. 158 -- Battle of Antietam, or Sharpsburg, September 17, 1862 -- Gen. James Longstreet, CSA, "Battle of Antietam" p. 171 -- Battle of Fredericksburg, December 11-15, 1862 -- Gen. James Longstreet, CSA, "Battle of Fredericksburg" p. 177 -- Battle of Stones River, or Murfreesboro, December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863 -- Sgt. Christian Lenker, USA, "Dr. C. Lenker Describes Battle of Stones River" p. 185 -- Everyday Life in the Hospital p. 193 -- Walt Whitman, USA, "The Great Army of the Wounded" p. 196 -- Louisa May Alcott, USA, from Hospital Sketches p. 203 -- Pvt. William Fletcher, CSA, "Wounded at Chickamauga" p. 206 -- Lt. Col. Gilbert C. Kniffin, USA, "The Third Day at Stones River" p. 215 -- 1863 p. 217 -- Battle of Chancellorsville, May 1-4, 1863 -- Brig. Gen. Abner Doubleday, USA, "Chancellorsville" p. 219 -- Siege of Vicksburg, May 18-July 4, 1863 -- Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA, "Siege of Vicksburg" p. 223 -- Mary Ann Loughborough, CSA, "Fall of a Shell at the Corner of My Cave" p. 235 -- Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863 -- Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA, "Report of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg, July 4, 1863" p. 239 -- Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain, USA, "Report of Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain, Gettysburg, July 6, 1863" p. 243 -- Gen. James Longstreet, CSA, "Gettysburg: Third Day" p. 251 -- Battle of Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863 -- Lt. Ambrose Bierce, USA, "A Little of Chickamauga" p. 267 -- Battle of Missionary Ridge, November 25, 1863 -- Capt. Bradford R. Wood Jr., USA, from Chattanooga or Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge from Moccasin Point p. 273 -- Variety of Warriors p. 279 -- Capt. John Wilkinson, CSN, from Narrative of a Blockade-Runner p. 283 -- Pvt. John McCorkle, CSA, "Quantrill's Raiders" p. 287 -- S. Emma E. Edmonds, USA, "Disguised as a Contraband" p. 289 -- Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, USA, "The Negro as a Soldier" p. 295 -- 1864 p. 311 -- Wilderness, May 5-7, 1864 -- Gen. James Longstreet, CSA, "Battle of the Wilderness" p. 312 -- Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864 -- Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, USA, "Spotsylvania and the Death of Jeb Stuart" p. 319 -- Atlanta, May 27, 1864 -- Lt. Ambrose Bierce, USA, "The Crime at Pickett's Mill; The Atlanta Campaign" p. 328 -- Battles of Cold Harbor and Petersburg, May 31-June 18, 1864 -- Pvt. William A. Canfield, USA, "Cold Harbor and Petersburg" p. 338 -- Battle of Dead Angle and Kennesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864 -- Cpl. Sam R. Watkins, CSA, "Dead Angle and Kennesaw Mountain" p. 343 -- Battle of the Crater, July 30, 1864 -- Capt. Sumner Shearman, USA, from Battle of the Crater p. 351 -- Shenandoah Campaign, September 19, 1864 -- Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, USA, "Miss Rebecca Wright" p. 357 -- March to the Sea, November 15-December 21, 1864 -- Gen. William T. Sherman, USA, "The March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah" p. 363 -- Dolly Sumner Lunt, CSA, from A Woman's Wartime Journal An Account of the Passage Over a Georgia Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea p. 370 -- Variety of Civil War Experience p. 377 -- Capt. Sumner Shearman, USA, "Experiences of Prison Life" p. 379 -- Cpl. Sam R. Watkins, CSA, "Presentment of the Wing of the Angel of Death" p. 391 -- D. W. Gooch, USA, "Fort Pillow Massacre" p. 394 -- Capt. D. P. Conyngham, USA, "Battlefield Tragedy, 1862" p. 402 -- 1865 p. 405 -- Battle of the Five Forks, April 1, 1865 -- Gen. Horace Porter, USA, "Battle of the Five Forks" p. 406 -- Petersburg, April 2, 1865 -- Gen. Horace Porter, USA, "Storming the Petersburg Works" p. 415 -- Appomattox, April 9, 1865 -- Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA, "Negotiations at Appomattox" p. 423 -- Assassination, April 15, 1865 -- Charles A. Leale, MD, USA, "Lincoln's Last Hours" p. 429 -- Reflecting on the War p. 443 -- Abraham Lincoln, USA, "Second Inaugural Address" p. 447 -- Herman Melville, USA, "The Martyr" p. 449 -- Charles Francis Adams, USA, "'The Foot-ball of Passion and Accident': Charles Francis Adams Ponders the Future of Freed Slaves," p. 451 -- S. A. Cunningham, CSA, "The Rebel Yell Remembered" p. 457 -- Brig. Gen. Edward Porter Alexander, CSA, "The Point of View" p. 461 -- Frederick Douglass, USA, Speech Delivered in Madison Square, New York, Decoration Day, 1878 p. 465 -- Pvt. Edward Mott Robbins, USA, "Don't Belittle the Civil War" p. 468.
Summary:
In Remembering the Civil War, historians Michael Barton and Charles Kupfer carefully select excerpts from the memoirs of key participants and weave them together to tell the story of the war in a single volume. Contributors include Union generals Ulysses Grant, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, W.T. Sherman, Abner Doubleday, and Philip Sheridan. Confederate authors include Robert E. Lee, Gen. James Longstreet, Cpl. Sam Watkins, Lt. John W. Worsham, Col. Edward Porter Alexander, Capt. John Wilkinson, and Jefferson Davis. Diaries and letters provide soldiers perspectives of what fighting was like on the ground.
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