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Genre/Form: | History Personal narratives Sources Erlebnisbericht |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Harwell, Richard Barksdale. Union reader. New York, N.Y. : Longmans, Green, 1958 (OCoLC)707601333 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Barksdale Harwell; Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) |
OCLC Number: | 412861 |
Description: | xxii, 362 pages illustrations 24 cm |
Contents: | 1861. Within Fort Sumter ; Cheer, boys, cheer ; Along the border ; Rebels ahead! ; War in the west ; Fort Laramie ; Battle of Port Royal -- 1862. The enemy is Texas ; Tardy George ; One of the strangest naval combats ; Shiloh ; But you must act ; Unfit for human beings ; The capture and occupation of New Orleans ; A change in Virginia ; We must learn righteousness ; Maryland invaded ; I think he should be engaged ; Battle of Fredericksburg ; A day in a hospital -- 1863. The grand terpsichorean festival ; Chancellorsville ; The second Louisiana ; Our present duty to our country ; Gettysburg ; The fall of Vicksburg ; The draft ; The Gettysburg address ; The battle of Chattanooga -- 1864. Fresh from Abraham's bosom ; Bushwhackers ; The Alabama and the Kearsarge ; Andersonville ; Sherman ; Sheridan at Winchester ; Victory for Christmas -- 1865. Peace conference ; The second inaugural ; All going finely ; Raising the flag at Sumter. |
Abstract:
Excerpts from diaries, personal letters, contemporary newspaper accounts, memoirs, campaign records, etc., arranged chronologically. Brief editorial prefaces inserted.
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