A Time of War: A Northern Chronicle of the Civil War
Price 17.56 - 22.16 USD
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9781581570113, 9781581570113
Brand
Countryman Pr
Author
Stuart Murray
Year of production
2004
This vivid portrait of the war"s horrors and glories will fascinate residents of New England and all Civil War buffs.Stuart Murray draws upon Berkshire County, Massachusetts diaries, letters, newspapers, military reports, church journals, and gravestones to tell the stories of the black Union soldiers drawn from New England factories and farms, and comprising the 54th Regiment. Here the reader will encounter Medal of Honor winners, Confederate generals, women volunteers, prisoners of war, leading abolitionists, pacifists, shopkeepers, poets, writers, artists, politicians, and a host of others, all contributing to a vivid portraits of the horrors and glories of the Civil War.