The Civil War Told by Those Who Lived It (Four-Volume Boxed Set)

The definitive firsthand narrative of the Civil War, in a collector's boxed set

After 150 years the Civil War still holds a central place in American history and self-understanding. It is our greatest national drama, at once heroic, tragic, and epic—our Iliad, but also our Bible, a story of sin and judgment, suffering and despair, death and resurrection in a “new birth of freedom.”
This four-volume Library of America series orchestrates a symphony of firsthand voices to chronicle as never be...