CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders
Documents, Memoirs, Campaigns, and CommandersBy John Esten Cooke, Abraham Lincoln, James Ford Rhodes, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Frank H. Alfriend
Length154h 25m
About this audiobook
This capacious Civil War anthology assembles military history, official documents, memoir, biography, political rhetoric, and retrospective interpretation into a many-voiced account of the nation's defining nineteenth-century conflict. Its range is itself instructive: battlefield narratives and command decisions stand beside presidential papers, biographical portraits, and broader historical syntheses. Particularly compelling are the firsthand military recollections and foundational state documents, which reveal how strategy, leadership, emancipation, loss, and national purpose were understood in the war's own language as well as in later memory. The contributors represent markedly different relationships to the conflict. Soldiers and commanders write from the pressures of campaign and authority; a president's words register the constitutional and moral stakes of union; and historians, journalists, and biographers shape subsequent public remembrance. Together, these voices illuminate the contested literary culture of the Civil War and Reconstruction era, in which testimony, commemoration, sectional identity, and national reconciliation competed to define the war's meaning. The juxtaposition of Union and Confederate-associated perspectives further underscores the complexity of historical memory. Recommended for students, general readers, and scholars alike, this volume offers an exceptional opportunity to compare evidence, interpretation, and literary form within a single collection. Its breadth encourages readers to trace productive tensions between private recollection and public record, military experience and political consequence, making it both an educational resource and a sustained dialogue about war, citizenship, and remembrance.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length154 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 14, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Masters of War: Top 10 Greatest Conquerors of All Time
26Chapter IX
2CHAPTER I
27Chapter X
3CHAPTER II
28Chapter XI
4CHAPTER III
29Chapter XII
5CHAPTER IV
30Chapter XIII
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6CHAPTER V
31Chapter XIV
7CHAPTER VI
32Chapter XV
8CHAPTER VII
33Chapter XVI
9CHAPTER VIII
34Chapter XVII
10CHAPTER IX
35Chapter XVIII
11CHAPTER X
36Chapter XIX
12CHAPTER XI
37Chapter XX
13CHAPTER XII
38Chapter XXI
14CHAPTER XIII
39Chapter XXII
15CHAPTER XIV
40Chapter XXIII
16Leaders & Commanders of the Union:
41Chapter XXIV
17Abraham Lincoln
42Chapter XXV
18Chapter I
43Chapter XXVI
19Chapter II
44Chapter XXVII
20Chapter III
45Chapter XXVIII
21Chapter IV
46Chapter XXIX
22Chapter V
47Ulysses S. Grant
23Chapter VI
48PREFACE
24Chapter VII
49CHAPTER I ANCESTRY — BIRTH — BOYHOOD
25Chapter VIII
50CHAPTER II WEST POINT — GRADUATION
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