"... the real war will never get in the books" : selections from writers during the Civil War

Drawing on a wide range of material, including diaries, letters, and essays, this book captures the reactions, as the American Civil War was waged, of writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Henry Adams, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Masur, Louis P.
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York Oxford University Press 1995 Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Edition:	1
Subjects:	19th century American literature American literature > 19th century Authors, American Authors, American > 19th century > Correspondence Authors, American > 19th century > Diaries Civil War and Reconstruction US History Civil War, 1861-1865 Correspondence Diaries Early 19th Century US History History Intellectual History Literary collections United States United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literary collections United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives American Civil War Frederick Douglass Nathaniel Hawthorne Ralph Waldo Emerson Harriet Beecher Stowe diaries Louisa May Alcott Herman Melville letters Walt Whitman
ISBN:	9780195098372, 0195098374
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Table of Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Henry Brooks Adams -- Louisa May Alcott -- Lydia Maria Child -- John Esten Cooke -- John William De Forest -- Frederick Douglass -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Charlotte Forten -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Herman Melville -- William Gilmore Simms -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Walt Whitman -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y