A Treasury Of Civil War Tales

Webb Garrison presents the Civil War in a collection of stories that capture what the war was like for the people who lived through it. Arranged chronologically, the stories begin with the publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and events leading up to the war. They trace the action through five years and conclude with Reconstruction and the presidential election of 1876. Included are stories of the slave Dred Scott, Red Cross founder Clara Barton, suspected spy Mrs. Rose Greenhow, assistant army surgeon Mary Walker, and President Andrew Johnson.

Culled from a wide variety of contemporary sources--letters, diaries, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets--this book contains a rich sampling of Civil War storytelling of all types.

With over 90 black and white photographs accompanying the text, this book contains 52 true stories of what ordinary people-not just soldiers-did in the conflict between the North and South, providing historical, informative, and often entertaining accounts of events during that time.

A collection of fifty-two true stories recounting unusual events of the Civil War era.

Stories of the Civil War.