The Real war will never get in the books : selections from writers during the Civil War / edited by Louis P. Masur.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Masur, Louis P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--19th century--Correspondence.

Authors, American.

Authors, American--19th century--Diaries.

American literature--19th century.

American literature.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literary collections.

United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity, (I sometimes put myself in fancy in the cot, with typhoid, or under the knife,) tried by terrible, fearfulest tests, probed deepest, the living soul's, the body's tragedies, bursting the petty bounds of art."" So wrote Walt Whitman in March of 1863, in a letter tellingfriends in

Contents:

Contents; Henry Brooks Adams; Louisa May Alcott; Lydia Maria Child; John Esten Cooke; John William De Forest; Frederick Douglass; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Charlotte Forten; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Herman Melville; William Gilmore Simms; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Walt Whitman; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-292) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-992342-6

1-4294-0153-2

1-280-52815-X

0-19-972686-8

OCLC:

814458920