The Civil War: Complete text of the best narrative history of the Civil War with over 100 actual pictures

War belongs not to the province 0f Arts or Sciences, but to the province of social life. It is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed and only in that is it different from others. It would be better, instead of comparing it with Art, to liken it to business competition, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still more like State politics, which again, on its part, may be looked upon as a kind of business competition on a great scale. Besides, State politics is the womb in which War is developed, in which its outlines lie hidden in a rudimentary state, like the qualities 0f living creatures in their embryos.


INCLUDED IN THIS COLLECTION ARE OVER 100 PHOTOS AND HISTORY OF:

RECORDS OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES,
BULL RUN—THE VOLUNTEERS FACE FIRE,
FORT HENRY AND FORT DONELSON,
SHILOH—THE FIRST GRAND BATTLE,
THE FIGHT FOR RICHMOND,
THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY,
THE SEVEN DAYS’ BATTLES,
CEDAR MOUNTAIN,
SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN,
ANTIETAM, OR SHARPSBURG,
STONE’S RIVER, OR MURFREESBORO,
FREDERICKSBURG—DISASTER FOR A NEW UNION LEADER,
CHANCELLORSVILLE AND JACKSON’S FLANKING MARCH,
VICKSBURG AND PORT HUDSON,
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG—THE HIGH-WATER MARK OF THE CIVIL WAR,
CHICKAMAUGA—THE BLOODIEST CONFLICT IN THE WEST,
THE BATTLES ON LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN AND MISSIONARY RIDGE,
THE BATTLE IN THE WILDERNESS,
THE BATTLE OF SPOTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE,
COLD HARBOR,
TO ATLANTA.
THE LAST CONFLICTS IN THE SHENANDOAN,
THE INVESTMENT OF PETERSBURG,
SHERMAN’S FINAL CAMPAIGN,
THE LAST INVASION OF TENNESSEE—FRANKLIN—NASHVILLE,
THE SIEGE AND FALL OF PETERSBURG,
APPOMATTOX