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First year of the war / Edward Albert Pollard.
American History, 1493-1859 (Module II: Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era, 1860-1945 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pollard, Edward Albert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Orleans (La.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)--Siege, 1861.
- Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.).
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1863.
- Summary:
- Follows the war from events that lead up to Fort Sumter to the fall of New Orleans. Contains several portrait illustrations throughout. Also has a fold-out map of the Battle of Bull run between pages 106 and 107. This book, along with three other companion volumes (see GLC00267.309) written afterward, is said to comprise the first popular history of the war from the Confederate view. The book contains anti-Davis feeling throughout and is steeped in anti-Northern prejudice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages) and index.
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