Voices of the Civil War
Richard Wheeler. Plume Books, $16.95 (512pp) ISBN 978-0-452-01066-6
Eyewitness accounts from men and women who experienced the Civil War make up the narrative of this volume. ``It could hardly be better done,'' PW concluded. ``The extracts are without exception memorable. . . . The story unfolds with immediacy and color, and the reader knows what it was like to march through the countryside and take part in this frightful carnage.'' Illustrated. (Oct.)
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Reviewed on: 10/01/1990
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 492 pages - 978-0-690-01090-9