110 Voices of the Civil War: Personal Accounts from the Frontlines

Eyewitness Memoirs, Diaries, and Dispatches from Union and Confederate FrontlinesBy Charles W. Reed, William Sherman, Philip Henry Sheridan, Ulysses S. Grant, Heros von Borcke, John D. Billings, J. W. Gibson, William Howard Russell, Samuel S. Hildebrand, Joseph Warren Keifer, John A. Sloan, Thomas North, George Perkins, Jacob D. Cox, Henry Bascom Smith, W. H. Morgan, Henry B. James, Louis Richards, Preston Lafayette Ledford, Henry Martyn Kieffer, Charles A. Fuller, Thomas Coleman Younger, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel R. Watkins, John Singleton Mosby, James Longstreet, Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, James Madison Page, Alonzo Cooper, Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Isaac Hermann, Richard Taylor, Leander Stillwell, Charles Anderson Dana, Raphael Semmes, James Harvey Kidd, John Beatty, William Watson, Carlton McCarthy, Hampton Sidney Thomas, James Harrison Wilson, Frederick L. Hitchcock, James R. Carnahan, J. Wilkinson, Joseph W. Grant, Daniel P. Smith, Richard J. Fulfer, John Lockwood, Henry C. Meyer, Richard L. Maury, Samuel Scoville, James Carson Elliott, H. Clay Trumbull, James Madison Stone, La Salle Corbell Pickett, Stanton P. Allen, Allen Ripley Foote, Alfred J. Vaughan, Thomas Kirwan, Henry Lane Stone, E. H. Clement, Edward Mott Robbins, Luther W. Hopkins, Martin A. Haynes, Grenville Mellen Dodge, John G. B. Adams, Ansel D. Nickerson, Warren Olney, Daniel Avery Langworthy, John Porter Fort, Joshua M. Addeman, Eugene Winslow Watson, Samuel Dana Greene, John Lorimer Worden, H. Ashton Ramsay, Bradford Ripley Jr. Wood, Frank A. Rollin, Arthur Peronneau Ford, Marion Johnstone Ford, John Milton Hubbard, John Watson Foster, Rufus H. Peck, R. E. McBride, Charles Carleton Coffin, Wickham Hoffman, George T. Ulmer, Thomas D. Duncan, Edward Alexander Moore, John Call Dalton, Henry H. Meacham, David E. Johnston, William A. Canfield, Abner Doubleday, John M. Batten, George Cary Eggleston, Lawrence Van Alstyne, Wayland Fuller Dunaway, David W. Stafford, James H. Wood, Charles C. Nott, William Meade Dame, S. Emma E. Edmonds, John Levi Maile, Edward M. Boykin, D. H. Fletcher, Samuel H. Fletcher, William N. Tyler, John Azor Kellogg, James Pike, Lot D. Young, Francis Warrington Dawson, David Lathrop

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110 Voices of the Civil War: Personal Accounts from the Frontlines assembles an expansive polyphony of witness, joining battlefield reminiscence, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, military reportage, and reflective memoir. Its accounts range from terse descriptions of combat to elaborate retrospective meditations on command, fear, endurance, emancipation, and loss. The collection's signal achievement is its juxtaposition of Union and Confederate perspectives, officers and enlisted soldiers, observers and participants, allowing familiar campaigns and lesser-known episodes alike to emerge as contested, human experiences rather than settled legend. The contributors include generals, scouts, sailors, journalists, surgeons, and rank-and-file veterans whose writings preserve the Civil War's social and military breadth. Their varied positions within wartime institutions—and their divergent regional, political, and personal loyalties—situate the volume within the rich tradition of postwar memoir, veterans' literature, and historical testimony. Read together, these voices illuminate how memory shaped accounts of the conflict while also retaining the immediacy of lived experience, from strategic decision-making to the intimate realities of marching, wounds, captivity, and bereavement. This volume is especially recommended for readers seeking a capacious introduction to Civil War experience through primary voices. Its breadth encourages comparative reading across styles, allegiances, and theaters of war, making it valuable for students, historians, and general readers. The dialogue among its narratives reveals both the irreducible plurality of the conflict and the interpretive challenges of remembering it.

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1The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson (Annotated)

2Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life

3PREFACE.

4CHAPTER I.

5CHAPTER II.

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6CHAPTER III.

7CHAPTER IV.

8CHAPTER V.

9CHAPTER VI.

10CHAPTER VII.

11CHAPTER VIII.

12CHAPTER IX.

13CHAPTER X.

14CHAPTER XI.

15CHAPTER XII.

16CHAPTER XIII.

17CHAPTER XIV.

18CHAPTER XV.

19CHAPTER XVI.

20CHAPTER XVII.

21CHAPTER XVIII.

22CHAPTER XIX.

23CHAPTER XX.

24CHAPTER XXI.

25The Life of Uncle Billy: Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman

26GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN to HIS COMRADES IN ARMS, VOLUNTEERS AND REGULARS

27PREFACE

28CHAPTER I FROM 1820 TO THE MEXICAN WAR 1820-1846

29CHAPTER II EARLY RECOLLECTIONS of CALIFORNIA 1846-1848

30CHAPTER III EARLY RECOLLECTIONS OF CALIFORNIA — (CONTINUED) 1849-1850

31CHAPTER IV MISSOURI, LOUISIANA, AND CALIFORNIA 1850-1855

32CHAPTER V CALIFORNIA 1855-1857

33CHAPTER VI CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, AND KANSAS 1857-1859

34CHAPTER VII LOUISIANA 1859-1861

35CHAPTER VIII MISSOURI APRIL AND MAY, 1861

36CHAPTER IX FROM THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN TO PADUCAH - KENTUCKY AND MISSOURI 1861-1862

37CHAPTER X BATTLE of SHILOH MARCH AND APRIL, 1862

38CHAPTER XI SHILOH TO MEMPHIS APRIL TO JULY, 1862

39CHAPTER XII MEMPHIS TO ARKANSAS POST JULY, 1882 TO JANUARY, 1883

40CHAPTER XIII VICKSBURG JANUARY TO JULY, 1888

41CHAPTER XIV CHATTANOOGA AND KNOXVILLE JULY TO DECEMBER, 1863

42CHAPTER XV MERIDIAN CAMPAIGN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1864

43CHAPTER XVI ATLANTA CAMPAIGN-NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA TO BENEBAW MARCH, APRIL, AND MAY, 1864

44CHAPTER XVII ATLANTA CAMPAIGN — BATTLES ABOUT KENESAW MOUNTAIN JUNE, 1864

45CHAPTER XVIII ATLANTA CAMPAIGN — BATTLES ABOUT ATLANTA JULY, 1864

46CHAPTER XIX CAPTURE OF ATLANTA AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, 1864

47CHAPTER XX ATLANTA AND AFTER — PURSUIT OF HOOD SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1864

48CHAPTER XXI THE MARCH TO THE SEA FROM ATLANTA TO SAVANNAH NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1864 (pt. 1)

49CHAPTER XXI THE MARCH TO THE SEA FROM ATLANTA TO SAVANNAH NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1864 (pt. 2)

50CHAPTER XXII SAVANNAH AND POCOTALIGO DECEMBER, 1884, AND JANUARY, 1885

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