Blood : Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War

by Kadzis, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781560252597
• ISBN10: 1560252596
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-18
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

The Civil War the bloodiest, most dramatic moment in this nation's history also produced some of the country's greatest literature. Blood reflects the violent hatred, love, patriotism, and heroism this conflict generated through the vivid stories of the men and women who were there. This collection includes Ulysses S. Grant (via the rumored pen of Mark Twain) recounting the taking of Vicksburg; Theodore Lyman watching Grant come into his own on his first drive toward Richmond; George Templeton Strong describing the horror of the New York Draft Riots; and plantation owner Mary Chestnut's report on the final days before the fall of Atlanta. Also included are firsthand accounts ranging from Pickett's Charge to Sherman's March, from Lee's Virginia campaigns to the heroism of African American foot soldiers, as well as excerpts from some of the most notable fiction on the subject.

Table of Contents

photographs	viii
introduction	1	(4)
from The Killer Angels	5	(24)
Michael Shaara
from Soldier of the South: General Pickett's War Letters to His Wife	29	(14)
Arthur Crew Inman
from War Years with Jeb Stuart	43	(14)
Lieut. Colonel W. W. Blackford
An Episode of War	57	(6)
Stephen Crane
from Army Life in a Black Regiment	63	(12)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
from A Confederate Girl's Diary	75	(6)
Sarah Morgan Dawson
from ``Co. Aytch''	81	(10)
Sam R. Watkins
from I Rode with Stonewall	91	(6)
Henry Kyd Douglas
from The Civil War Letters of Joshua K. Callaway	97	(4)
Joshua K. Callaway
from The Diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854--1863	101	(34)
Caroline Seabury
from Shiloh	135	(20)
Shelby Foote
from Three Years in the Sixth Corps.	155	(4)
George T. Stevens
from The Diary of George Templeton Strong	159	(12)
George Templeton Strong
Letter To James C. Conkling	171	(6)
Abraham Lincoln
from Specimen Days	177	(44)
Walt Whitman
from Berry Benson's Civil War Book	221	(34)
Berry Benson
from Andersonville: A Story of Military Prisons	255	(8)
John McElroy
from Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman	263	(16)
William Tecumseh Sherman
from Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember	279	(6)
Adeline Grey
Phoebe Faucette
from Memoirs and Selected Letters	285	(15)
Ulysses S. Grant
acknowledgments	300	(4)
bibliography	304