Record details

• ISBN: 9781579128456
• ISBN: 1579128459
• Physical Description: 510 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm + 1 CD (4 3/4 in.)
• Publisher: New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc. : [2010]
• Copyright: ©2010

Content descriptions

General Note:

Accompanying CD includes all of the New York Times articles published during the Civil War.

Includes index.

System requirements: PC, Windows 2000/XP or later ; Mac, OSX 10.3 or later.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"By renouncing their treason": December 1863-February 1864 -- "Gen. Grant and staff arrived here to-day": March-April 1864 -- "We are going on to Richmond, depend upon it": May 1864 -- "Fighting has been going on nearly all day": June-July 1864 -- "There is no security from danger": August-September 1864 -- "The very life of the nation is at stake": October-December 1864 -- "No such thing as compromise": January-February 1865 -- "The great struggle is over": March-April 1865 -- "This hour of mourning and of gloom": April-May 1865 -- "What is to be done with the negro?": the era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877.

"The question of freedom or slavery: the coming of the Civil War", 1850-1860 -- "The approaching triumph of Mr. Lincoln": May-November 1860 -- "The momentous issue of Civil War": December 1860-March 1861 -- "The excitement has been intense": April-May 1861 -- "The greatest battle ever fought on this continent": June-July 1861 -- "What we are fighting for": August-October, 1861 -- "The darkest and gloomiest year": November 1861-January 1862 -- "The iron gunboats have settled the question": February-March 1862 -- "Operations seem everywhere to have come almost to a dead halt": April-May 1862 --"In front of Richmond": June-July 1862 -- "Removing that dreadful evil": August-October 1862 -- "A people suffering fearfully": November 1862-January 1863 -- "If we win a battle": February-April 1863 -- A terrific crash of musketry": May-June 1863 -- "An action of gigantic magnitude": July 1863 -- "A desperate engagement": August-September 1863 -- "The shock of battle": October-Novembrer 1863

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Subject:

United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Sources.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Press coverage.
New York (N.Y.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Press coverage.

Genre:

Personal narratives.