Voices From The House Divided: The American Civil War As Personal Experience

Excellent supplement for Civil War or U.S. history survey course. Using diaries, letters, and other contemporary sources, this follows 20 individuals--Northerners and Southerners--from the outbreak of hostilities at Fort Sumter to the Confederate surrender at Appomattox four years later. The sources have been edited to a manageable length and include chapter introductions and headnotes. Students get a sense of the social dimension of the war, often neglected in textbooks.Thomas Pressly is the author of 'Voices From The House Divided: The American Civil War As Personal Experience', published 1994 under ISBN 9780070379343 and ISBN 0070379343.