Witness to War: The Story of the Civil War Told By Those Who Lived It

From the first shots at Fort Sumter to the mourning of Lincoln’s death—experience the Civil War as it happened, through the voices of those who were there.

History comes to life in the words of those who lived through the American Civil War.

The Civil War was one of the great events of United States history, and the widespread literacy of the mid-nineteenth century made it possible for an unprecedented number of Americans to record their thoughts, observations, descriptions, and opinions of t...