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The way we recount the civil war may well tell us something about ourselves as a nation

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This book shows the horrors of what happen during that time without taking sides

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A well written and adult insight into the intrigues among lincolns cabinet party and political opponents that nearly conspired to derail his 1864 reelection chances

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Grants character the treasury secretarys duplicity and the strong character of civil war women find parallels with todays dc machinations

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Gwynne’s “hymns of the republic” is an excellent book about the last vicious uncertain year of the civil war beginning with the battle of the wilderness in may 1864 and ending with the proper burial of the dead in andersonville cemetery in may 1865

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There was clara barton a stupendously dogged and brave army nurse who lobbied senators and faked army passes to help horrifically wounded soldiers on the front

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There was john singleton mosby an expert in guerilla warfare who made life miserable for philip sheridan’s army in virginia it was in part as a response to mosby’s raids that sheridan and grant decided to implement a scorched earth policy that became a mainstay of the final year of the war

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There was benjamin butler a legal genius and mediocre general who used a clever legal ploy to attract thousands of slaves to him and to freedom his main argument was that because the confederate states had declared themselves to be a separate country the fugitive slave act which would allow them to claim back any escaped slaves would not apply