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The Civil War in Pictures: From the Drawing Boards of the Newspaper Artists Who Recorded the Conflict
The Civil War in Pictures From the Drawing Boards of the Newspaper Artists Who Recorded the Conflict Author:Fletcher Pratt Set alongside original reports by the first professional war correspondents, these 300 rare illustrations call up the raids and riots; the ruin at Manassas Junction; McClellan's reluctance and the Mud Campaign; the ironclad's foray and the sniper's deathwatch; Jackson and Sherman like a knife through the rear areas; Pinkerton's coups, Lee's mast... more »ery, Lincoln's "last" general; the private war in the Red River's backwashes; the massed heroics at Gettysburg, Shiloh, and Lookout Mountain. With Fletcher Pratt's crisp commentary weaving pictures and stories into a five-year dramatic whole, this big handsome volume restores to the Civil War a continuity, a visual excitement, a sense of reality it has long since lost in the retelling.« less