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The Civil War: The Second Year Told By Those Who Lived It: Told By Those Who Lived It By: Stephen W. Sears

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The Library of America, April 2012

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The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It is the second volume in an ambitious four-year, four-volume publishing event that marks the 150th anniversary of our nation's most searing and defining crisis with an unprecedented firsthand narrative of the war years drawn from the broadest possible range of authoritative sources, including diaries, letters, speeches, military reports, newspaper articles, memoirs, poems, and public papers. This volume opens in January 1862 with Frederick Douglass’s prophetic vision of an end to slavery—“That day is not far off”—and closes with a January 8, 1863, letter in which Abraham Lincoln declares: “broken eggs can not be mended. I have issued the emancipation proclamation, and I can not retract it.” In between are 148 pieces, including eleven published here for the first time, by more than ninety participants, including Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, George B. McClellan, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edwin Porter Alexander, Harriet Jacobs, and George Templeton Strong, as well as soldiers Charles B. Haydon, Ephraim Anderson, Charles B. Labruzan, and Henry Livermore Abbott; civilian diarists Kate Stone, Judith W. McGuire, and John B. Jones; and war correspondents George E. Stephens and George Smalley. The selections include vivid and haunting narratives of famous battles—Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Shiloh, the Seven Days, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Iuka, Corinth, Perryville, Fredericksburg, Stones River—as well as firsthand accounts of the war on the western rivers and the first clash of the ironclads; of life and death in the hospitals in Richmond and Georgetown; of the impact of war on Massachusetts towns and Louisiana plantations; of the mounting fears of slaveholders and the struggles of runaway slaves seeking freedom in contraband camps; and of the inner 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.

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Imprint: The Library of America
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