Between the first shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed, as were the lives of the soldiers and civilians who lived through the war. This is an extraordinary collection of stories about that epochal conflict, and includes entries by: Ambrose Bierce Stephan Crane Thomas Nelson Page Dolly Sumner Lunt Mark Twain George Washington Cable G. A. Henry Randall Parrish and many others.
