The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865Harper Collins, 1999 - 864 pages The epic saga of the Civil War told from the viewpoints of eleven principle players in the drama: Abraham Lincoln, R.E. Lee, Mary Livermore, Jefferson Davis, William Tecumseh Sherman, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, Cornelia Hancock, John Wilkes Booth, and Walt Whitman. |
Contents
The Winds of SixtyTwo | 113 |
The Winds of SixtyThree | 273 |
The Winds of SixtyFour | 447 |
The Winds of SixtyFive | 621 |
Coda | 709 |
REFERENCES | 715 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 809 |
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