- On Shattered Ground: A Civil War Mosaic, 1861-1865

by Eileen Panetta (Editor)

Other authorsEileen Panetta (Editor), Roger Panetta (Editor)
Paperback, 2012

Status

Available

Call number

973.7

Collection

Publication

Signet Classics (2012), Mass Market Paperback, 432 pages

Description

A WIDE-RANGING COLLECTION OF CIVIL WAR DOCUMENTS This comprehensive anthology of original documents traces the American Civil War from its beginnings with the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln to the surrender and assassination with which it ended. With historical sources ranging from public documents, newspaper articles and personal reminiscences to fiction, songs, and poems written by participants and observers, these primary documents and images capture the wide spectrum of individuals who all experienced the profound effects of the American Civil War on both the Union and Confederacy sides as well as on the nation as a whole. Statesmen, citizens, generals, soldiers, abolitionists, slaves, journalists, and artists all give voice to the day-to-day reality of a devastating conflict that reached into the homes and lives of the average American in a way no American war had before...or has since.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

432 p.; 6.69 inches

ISBN

0451532198 / 9780451532190

Local notes

1861 -- South Carolina ordinance of secession -- The Crittenden compromise -- First inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The debate over Fort Sumter / Welles -- From A diary form Dixie / Chesnut -- From Within Fort Sumter -- Lincoln's call for troops -- The anaconda plan -- "The Battle of Manassas" / Clarke -- Eyewitness at First Manassus / Russell -- A final letter / Ballou -- The United States Sanitary Commission / Livermore -- 1862 -- "The death of Willie Lincoln" / Keckley -- The Monitor and the Merrimac / Stiles -- "Tardy George" / Boker -- The Battle of Shiloh / Grant -- "What I saw of Shiloh" / Bierce -- Shiloh songs -- "Shiloh: a requiem" / Melville -- "The private history of a campaign that failed" / Twain -- "How men feel in battle" / Byers -- Contrabands of war -- From Hospital sketches / Alcott -- Whitman and the wounded -- 1863 -- The emancipation proclamation -- On the Emancipation proclamation / Frederick Douglass -- New York City draft riots -- "At Gettysburg" / Alleman -- Lee's letter of resignation -- The death of Stonewall Jackson -- The siege of Vicksburg / Grant -- "My cave life in Vicksburg" / Loughborough -- From The diary of Kate Stone -- Richmond bread riots -- The Gettysburg address -- 1864 -- "A reminiscence of Robert E. Lee" / Imboden -- "Buried alive" / Tyler -- Black soldiers' petition for equal pay -- The Battle of Mobile Bay -- "In the Libby" -- The campaign of 1864 -- The fall of Atlanta -- Sherman's march to the sea -- "Ethiopia saluting the colors" / Whitman -- 1865 -- "The two Christmas evenings" / Child -- The sack and destruction of Columbia, South Carolina / Simms -- A slave's memory of the war / Freeman -- The surrender at Appomattox / Grant -- Anderson returns to Fort Sumter -- The death of Abraham Lincoln / Welles -- Abraham Lincoln's funeral -- Lincoln's funeral cortege / Power -- "The death of Abraham Lincoln" / Whitman.
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