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Welcome to lesser-seen sides of the conflict, in which the author of Little Woman describes her hospital work, a colonel trains newly recruited black soldiers, and Mary Lincoln's dressmaker reports from the White House.
Recommendations... |  |  Civil War Hospital Sketches
by Louisa May Alcott
Written by the author of Little Women during the winter of 1862-63, these memoirs reveal the realities of battlefield medicine as well as the tentative first steps of women in military service.
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Products in First Hand Accounts | | |  | Army Life in a Black Regiment
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Union officer's lively, detailed wartime diary captures the raw humor that develops among the men in combat and paints unforgettable pictures of soldiers, routines of camp life, and southern landscapes.
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| | | | Civil War Hospital Sketches
by Louisa May Alcott
Written by the author of Little Women during the winter of 1862-63, these memoirs reveal the realities of battlefield medicine as well as the tentative first steps of women in military service.
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|  | The Civil War: A Book of Quotations
by Bob Blaisdell
More than 700 quotes — arranged chronologically and divided into sections on specific topics and events — provide a running narrative by the many who lived through or died in the Civil War. Notes.
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| |  | The Union Reader: As the North Saw the War
by Richard B. Harwell
Rich anthology of documents by Northerners who lived through the war and were often firsthand participants. Soldiers' letters home, prison narratives, much more. 12 historic illustrations.
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|  | A Yankee Private's Civil War
by Robert Hale Strong, Ashley Halsey
Moving memoir by a writer who served as a teenaged Union recruit. True tales of punishment, revenge, devotion, and quiet heroism as well as survival methods of the average soldier.
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