Classic Civil War Stories: Twenty Extraordinary Tales of the North and South

ISBN: 1592284566

Author: Churchill, Winston, Sir

Condition: New

About the Author LISA PURCELL extensively studied Civil War literature as a doctoral candidate in American History at Princeton University. She is also the editor of Classic Love Stories. Now a freelance editor, she lives in New York City. Product Description A moving collection of wartime stories from the battlefield and the home front. From the Back Cover The Civil War has captured the American imagination like none other in history. Between the first shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lees surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed, as were the lives of the soldiers and civilians who lived through the conflict. This collection of stories examines a few of those lives, focusing on personal experiences. How did it feel to be a soldier facing enemy fire while friends dropped beside you? How did one live with the decision to take up arms against a neighbor, a brother, a father? What was life like for the widow trying to protect her plantation while Northern troops marched across her land? Some of the stories are factual, others are fiction. Some were published before the war had ended and others more than half a century later, but all bring to life the experience of the common person coping with a devastating conflict.With contributions from:Ambrose Bierce Louisa May Alcott Stephen Crane Thomas Nelson Page Dolly Sumner Lunt Randall Parrish Phoebe Yates Pember George Washington Cable S. Emma E. Edmonds Mark Twain Mary Ann Loughborough G. A. Henty John McElroy Joseph A. Altsheler John Fox, Jr. and others