Civil War Archive, The: The History of the Civil War in Documents
Entry/Object ID
L2010.15.2
Description
Civil War Archive is a vast collection of first-person accounts and landmark documents--by soldiers, generals, politicians, presidents, poets, slaves, wives, mothers and children that brings the Civil War to vivid life through the words of those who were there. All the momentous documents of the era are included, from the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation to the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession and the Confederate order of surrender. Two small loose maps (Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of Manassas) are included. This book is edited by Henry Steele Commager; Revised and expanded by Erik Bruun. This book is from the library of Reid and Virginia Woodbury. Note: This book expands on the originally titled "Blue and Gray".
854/Hardbound/Maps.
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Book
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Other Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Search Terms
Documents, Seward, W. H., Bull Run, Jackson, Stonewall, Lincoln, Abraham, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Civil War Letters, Civil War Battles, Border War, National Archives, Civil War Memoirs, Civil War Historical Documents
