Description

Knits together more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs, to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war. This extraordinary electronic collection includes 100,000 pages of re-keyed and indexed text, including 4,000 facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscript material. Users can see and compare, for the first time, the writings of politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, seamen, and spies. The letters and diaries are by the famous and the unknown, giving both the Northern and the Southern perspectives, along with that of foreign observers.

Features and benefits

• The Passing of the Armies (1915), Joshua Chamberlain's lyrical and moving description of the ceremony accepting the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox.
• The Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt (1901) provides the perspective of the head of the Bureau of Military Railroads of the Union's transportation problems.
• Theodore Lyman's letters in Meade's Headquarters, 1863-1865 (1922) provide detailed accounts of the Army of the Potomac's activities and politics during the last year and one half of war.
• The Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke (1911) contains not only military affairs in the West, but also politics, social life in the South, prison life, and the fleeing of the government from Richmond at war's end.
• Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir by His Wife (1890), by Varina Howell Davis.
• The diary of Gideon Welles, who was Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson.
• Soldier Boy's Letters to His Father and Mother 1861-5, by Chauncey H. Cooke.
• The Letters and Diary of Captain Jonathan Huntington Johnson.
• The Underground Rail Road: a Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters &c, by William Still.
• Life and Adventures of James Williams, A Fugitive Slave.

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