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Civil War Memories - Nineteen Stories of Battle Bravery Love and Tragedy - cover

Civil War Memories - Nineteen Stories of Battle Bravery Love and Tragedy

S.T. Joshi

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

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Summary

A collection of short fiction portraying all phases of the war from Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Henry James, and others. 
 
Civil War Memories is a compilation of nineteen stories of the Civil War written in the late 1800s, giving them a ring of authenticity. The voices are both Northern and Southern, male and female, angry and melancholy, serious and comic; but they all treat the Civil War as a watershed in American history and in the lives of those who lived through it. 
 
Authors include: Bret Harte, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, W. C. Morrow, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, Albion W. Tourgée, George Cary Eggleston, Mark Twain, Henry James, Grace E. King, Harold Frederic, John William De Forest, Kate Chopin, Thomas Nelson Page, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edward Lucas White, Henry Timrod.
Available since: 05/13/2000.
Print length: 396 pages.

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