The Civil War

The Second Year Told By Those Who Lived It (LOA #221)

Stephen W. Sears

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The Library of America
01 March 2012

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); History; History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Military history; American Civil War

Series: Library of America: The Civil War Collection

"Set between January 1862 and January 1863, this second installment in the ambitious Civil War series paintsan

unforgettable portrait of the year that turned a secessionist

rebellion into a war of emancipation

Including eleven never-before-published pieces, here are more than 140 messages, proclamations,

newspaper stories, letters, diary entries, memoir excerpts, and poems

by more than eighty participants and observers, among them Abraham

Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, George B. McClellan, Robert

E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel

Hawthorne, Clara Barton, Harriet Jacobs, and George Templeton Strong,

as well as soldiers Charles B. Haydon and Henry Livermore Abbott;

diarists Kate Stone and Judith McGuire; and war correspondents George

E. Stephens and George Smalley. The selections include vivid and

haunting narratives of battles-Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, the gunboat

war on the Western rivers, Shiloh, the Seven Days, Second Bull Run,

Antietam, Iuka, Corinth, Perryville, Fredericksburg, Stones River-as

well as firsthand accounts of life and death in the military hospitals

in Richmond and Georgetown; of the impact of war on Massachusetts towns

and Louisiana plantations; of the struggles of runaway slaves and the

mounting fears of slaveholders; and of the deliberations of the cabinet

in Washington, as Lincoln moved toward what he would call ""the central

act of my administration and the great event of the nineteenth

century""- the revolutionary proclamation of emancipation.

LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries."

Edited by: Stephen W. Sears
Imprint: The Library of America
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 221
Dimensions: Height: 207mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 760g
ISBN: 9781598531442
ISBN 10: 1598531441
Series: Library of America: The Civil War Collection
Pages: 873
Publication Date: 01 March 2012
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

STEPHEN W.SEARS, editor, is the author of George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon; Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam; To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign; Chancellorsville; and Gettysburg. He has also edited The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan.