The Civil War Author:Ph. B Harry Hansen From the firing on Fort Sumter to the shot that killed Abraham Lincoln, here is a complete and fully documented history of the Civil War - the forces and events that caused it, to the soldiers and civilians who fought it, the ideas and values that are its legacy. — The author was a war correspondent for the Chicago Daily News during WWI as well a... more »s its literary editor for the New York World. He edits the World Almanac.« less