Civil War In Pictures Author:Fletcher Pratt Set along side original reports by the first professional war correspondents, these rare 300 illustrations call up the raids and riots; the ruin at Manassas Junction; McCellan'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 ib 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, thie big handsome volume restores the the Civil War a continuity, a visual excitement, a sense of reality it has long since lost in the retelling.« less