{"product_id":"the-civil-war-the-second-year-told-by-those-who-lived-it-loa-221-isbn-9781598531442","title":"The Civil War: The Second Year Told By Those Who Lived It (LOA #221)","description":"\u003cb\u003eSet between January 1862 and January 1863, this second installment in the ambitious Civil War series paints an  unforgettable portrait of the year that turned a secessionist  rebellion into a war of emancipation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluding eleven never-before-published pieces, here are more than 140 messages, proclamations,  newspaper stories, letters, diary entries, memoir excerpts, and poems  by more than eighty participants and observers, among them Abraham  Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, George B. McClellan, Robert  E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel  Hawthorne, Clara Barton, Harriet Jacobs, and George Templeton Strong,  as well as soldiers Charles B. Haydon and Henry Livermore Abbott;  diarists Kate Stone and Judith McGuire; and war correspondents George  E. Stephens and George Smalley. The selections include vivid and  haunting narratives of battles-Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, the gunboat  war on the Western rivers, Shiloh, the Seven Days, Second Bull Run,  Antietam, Iuka, Corinth, Perryville, Fredericksburg, Stones River-as  well as firsthand accounts of life and death in the military hospitals  in Richmond and Georgetown; of the impact of war on Massachusetts towns  and Louisiana plantations; of the struggles of runaway slaves and the  mounting fears of slaveholders; and of the deliberations of the cabinet  in Washington, as Lincoln moved toward what he would call \"the central  act of my administration and the great event of the nineteenth  century\": the revolutionary proclamation of emancipation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.STEPHEN W.SEARS, editor, is the author of George B. McClellan: The Young  Napoleon; Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam; To the Gates of  Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign; Chancellorsville; and Gettysburg. He  has also edited The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303586484453,"sku":"NP9781598531442","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598531442.jpg?v=1767738700","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-civil-war-the-second-year-told-by-those-who-lived-it-loa-221-isbn-9781598531442","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}