Poetry, prose, photos, and songs of the Civil War. The authors range from hawks to doves. In the former category, James Madison Bell wrote: "The pleasing duty still remains / To sing a people from their chains.".
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
Stephen Vincent Benet, Ambrose Bierce, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Julia Ward Howe, Andrew Hudgins, Edgar Lee Masters, Herman Melville, Robert Penn Warren, Walt Whitman.