Uniform Title History of the Civil War Title Mathew Brady's illustrated history of the Civil War, 1861-65 and the causes that led up to the great conflict / by Benson J. Lossing, and a chronological summary and record of every engagement ... showing the total losses and casualties together with war maps of localities, compiled from the official records of the War Department ; illustrated with facsimile photographic reproductions of the official war photographs, taken at the time by Mathew B. Brady, under the authority of President Lincoln and now in the possession of the War Department, Washington, D.C. ....