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Reviewed on October 15, 2000
The American Civil War has been so well documented by historians that it seems difficult to produce an original work on the subject. Here, however, we see a new approach to this familiar conflict. Gallman, director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, has compiled extensive primary sources into a one-volume account of the war, showing the conflict through the eyes of witnesses in a day-by-day history that begins with reactions to Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election and ends with acc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More