Civil War Visions and Viewpoints

This entry is from the Letters of Lydia Maria Child.   In a letter to John Greenleaf Whittier, Child mentions Harriet Tubman, a slave who e...

This entry is from The Life of Johnny Reb, The Common Soldier of the Confederacy by Bell Irvin Wiley.  This story originally comes from Fou...

Today's entry  comes from the Rebellion Record Volume III by Frank Moore, 1862.  I meant to post this last month, but the holidays got...

The entry is from Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune, The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw , edited by Russell Duncan.  Later in the ...

This entry is from the Journal of the Kosciusko Guards [Indiana] • Company E • 12th Regiment, written by William S. Hemphill, Transcri...

This entry is from  Diary of a Union Lady 1861 - 1865 edited by Harold Earl Hammond. This is from the diary of Maria Lydig Daly, wife of ...

Sometimes the history of a book can be as interesting as the book itself. I recently came across such a book --  a book that reveals its ...