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Chapter 1: PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. A COMPLETE AND RELIABLE History of the War FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT TO ITS CLOSE: GIVING A GRAPHIC PICTURE OF ITS ENCOUNTERS, THRILLING INCIDENTS, FRIGHTFUL SCENES, HAIR BREADTH ESCAPES, INDIVIDUAL DARING, DESPERATE CHARGES, PERSONAL ANECDOTES, ETC., GLEANED FROM EYE-WITNESSES OF, AND PARTICIPANTS IN, THE TERRIBLE SCENES DESCRIBED—A TRUTHFUL LIVING REFLEX OF ALL MATTERS OF INTEREST CONNECTED WITH THIS THE MOST GIGANTIC OF HUMAN STRUGGLES. TOGETHER WITH A COMPLETE CHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE WAR.
By Ann S. Stephens
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This richly illustrated volume offers a chronological, narrative survey of the Civil War’s major campaigns and engagements, pairing tactical summaries of land and naval operations with portraits, engravings, and battlefield scenes. It interweaves strategic overviews and a chronological analysis with eyewitness anecdotes and personal episodes of courage and hardship, presenting both broad movements and vivid, scene-by-scene depictions to provide a pictorial and anecdotal guide to the conflict’s military events.

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Title: Pictorial history of the war for the Union, volume 2 (of 2)

A complete and reliable history of the war from its commencement to its close ... together with a complete chronological analysis of the war

Author: Ann S. Stephens

Release date: August 4, 2024 [eBook #74187]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Benjamin W. Hitchcock, 1866

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PICTORIAL HISTORY
OF THE
WAR FOR THE UNION.
A COMPLETE AND RELIABLE
History of the War
FROM ITS
COMMENCEMENT TO ITS CLOSE:
GIVING A GRAPHIC PICTURE OF ITS ENCOUNTERS, THRILLING INCIDENTS, FRIGHTFUL SCENES, HAIR BREADTH ESCAPES, INDIVIDUAL DARING, DESPERATE CHARGES, PERSONAL ANECDOTES, ETC., GLEANED FROM EYE-WITNESSES OF, AND PARTICIPANTS IN, THE TERRIBLE SCENES DESCRIBED—A TRUTHFUL LIVING REFLEX OF ALL MATTERS OF INTEREST CONNECTED WITH THIS THE MOST GIGANTIC OF HUMAN STRUGGLES.
TOGETHER WITH A COMPLETE CHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE WAR.

By MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS.
EMBELLISHED WITH OVER TWO HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS.
TWO VOLUMES.
VOL II.
NEW YORK:
BENJAMIN W. HITCHCOCK, No. 14 CHAMBERS STREET,
PUBLISHER Of SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS.
1867.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866,
By BENJAMIN W. HITCHCOCK,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
TO
MAJOR-GENERAL
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN,
ONE OF THE BEST MEN AND BRAVEST PATRIOTS THAT EVER FOUGHT FOR A GRATEFUL COUNTRY,
THESE VOLUMES ARE
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
ANN S. STEPHENS.

New York, January, 1886.