Between the first shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed, as were the lives of the soldiers and civilians who lived through the war. This is an extraordinary collection of stories about that epochal conflict, and includes entries by:
Ambrose Bierce
Stephan Crane
Thomas Nelson Page
Dolly Sumner Lunt
Mark Twain
George Washington Cable
G. A. Henry
Randall Parrish
and many others.
