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Follow the adventure of an uneducated boy and his friend, an escaped slave, in this Great American Novel. Twain’s crowning achievement is capturing the regional vernacular of the 19th century South.

Alcott was deeply affected after treating the wounded soldiers from the Battle of Fredericksburg. Hospital Sketches is a compilation of four sketches based on the letters Alcott sent home when she was a volunteer nurse for the Union.

Abstract: These readings provide a glimpse of the vast sweep and profound breadth of Americans' war among and against themselves, adding crucial voices to our understanding of the war and its meaning.

The impact of the Civil War on lovers. Inman is not the man he used to be, as wounded in battle he slowly makes his way home to North Carolina. His sweetheart, Ada, too has changed, no longer a flighty belle but a hard-working farm woman. Will love be the same?

Set in the Adirondacks, the son of Abolitionist John Brown tells the story of his father’s life and vigilante ethos. This heavily researched but fictional account describes Owen Brown coming to terms with having a gentle and compassionate father who was also a political terrorist.

Jeff follows his father’s lead with this prequel to The Killer Angels. A thoughtful novel that focuses on the lives of the generals and commanding officers of both sides during the battles leading up to Gettysburg.

Traveling to Civil War-era Washington, D.C., to tend wounded soldiers and pursue her dream of becoming a surgeon, headstrong midwife Mary receives guidance from two smitten doctors and resists her mother's pleas for her to return home.

A lushly written tale of March, the father in Alcott’s Little Women, coming home from the war and trying to reconnect with his wife and children after recovering from illness and the traumatizing effects of war.

The classic novel of a young man maturing through loss of innocence. Written in 1895, Crane depicts a young man in his first experience of war.

Heralded as Faulkner’s masterpiece, The Sound and the Fury is set in the post Civil War South and gives multiple accounts of the downfall of the aristocratic fictional Compson family. The cast of characters presented include an autistic adult brother and an African-American maid.

Eliza Harris, a slave whose child is to be sold, escapes her beloved home on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky and heads North, eludes the hired slave catchers and is aided by the underground railroad. Another slave, Uncle Tom, is sent "down the river" for sale and ultimately endures a martyr's death under the whips of Simon Legree's overseers.

This book is a collection of stories that have comprised an important part of the fabric of our culture, from the earliest days of our nation to the twentieth century--From publisher description.

An eloquent diary of Rhodes’ four years in the Union Army. The common young man starts out as a private and rises through the ranks to become a Lieutenant Colonel.

" ... Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems, songs, military reports, legal opinions, and memoirs, 'The Civil War: The First Year' brings together over 120 pieces by more than sixty participants to create a unique firsthand narrative of this great historical crisis ..."--Dust jacket flap.

While Emily Dickinson wrote poetry most of her adult life and throughout wartime, her poetry and letters continued on in their themes of nature, love and family and rarely speaks of war.

Sam Watkins proves to be a thoughtful writer as he retells his account of surviving the Confederacy for four years. This is a collection of articles he wrote for newspaper publishing some 15 years after the Civil War.

In this book, prize winning author James M. McPherson tells the story of the battle of Antietam - the turning point of the whole Civil War, and the bloodiest day in American history. In a concise narrative, McPherson takes readers through the events leading up to Antietam, and through the savage fighting of the battle itself. The final chapters will discuss the aftermath of the battle and why it truly was a pivotal moment in American history.

Includes “Song of Myself” and the elegy to Abraham Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”

The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.