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Title The Blue and the Gray : the story of the Civil War as told by participants / edited by Henry Steele Commager.

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New York : Fairfax Press : Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1982.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Kansas Collection J Schick	973.78 B625 1982	---	Lib Use Only

Description	2 volumes in 1 (xliv, 1201 pages, [45] pages of plates) : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Note	Reprint. Originally published: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, Š1950.
	"A Lou Reda book."
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 1155-1186) and index.
Summary	Contains 450 accounts drawn from letters, journals, diaries, memoirs, official records, state papers, and other sources describing all aspects of the war.
Contents	I. Darkening clouds -- II. The conflict precipitated -- III. The gathering of the hosts -- IV. Bull Run and the Peninsular Campaign -- V. Stonewall Jackson and the Valley Campaign -- VI. Second Bull Run and Antietam -- VII. Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville -- VIII. How the soldiers lived: Eastern front -- IX. Incidents of army life: Eastern front -- XI. The struggle for Missouri and the West -- XII. How the soldiers lived: Western front -- XIII. Incidents of army life: Western front -- XIV. The problem of discipline -- XV. Great Britain and the American Civil War -- XVI. Songs the soldiers sang -- XVII. Gettysburg -- XVIII. Vicksburg and Port Hudson -- XIX. Prisons, North and South -- XX. Behind the lines: The North -- XXI. Behind the lines: The South -- XXII. Hospitals, surgeons, and nurses -- XXIII. The coast and inland waters -- XXIV. The blockade and the cruisers -- XXV. Chickamauga and Chattanooga -- XXVI. Atlanta and the March to the Sea -- XXVII. The wilderness -- XXVIII. The siege of Petersburg -- XXIX. The valley in 1864 -- XXX. Lee and Lincoln -- XXXI. The sunset of the Confederacy.
Subject	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	United States -- History -- 1861-1865.
	American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
Chronological Term	1861-1865
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
	Personal narratives.
Added Author	Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998.
ISBN	0517383799
	9780517383797