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Chronicles the Civil War with letters, diaries, speeches, telegrams, newspapers, and battlefield reports from the election of President Linclon in 1860 to the surrender at Appomatox and the assassination of Linclon on April 14, 1865.
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In this moving day-by-day chronicle, we hear the real voices of the soldiers, nurses, farmers, laborers, slaves, and freed people who lived through America's most tragic conflict. This much-needed collection of the letters, diaries, speeches, telegrams, newspaper accounts, and official battlefield reports penned by those people presents an astonishing array of perspectives and conflicting accounts of this very personal war. Hundreds of period black and white images enhance the firstperson accounts and help recapture the texture of life at all levels and on both sides of the Civil War.
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