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This is actually the book Civil War lovers have been waiting for. There are many, many studies of the Civil War. Catalogs have been written on its economical effects, its politics causes, its relationship to western expansion. However the real fascination of the conflict is the storyline of combat, men in struggle. Fight: The Civil War says this story in the words of men who actually marched into struggle. We reveal their activities, their anxieties, and their occasions of bravery at Vicksburg, on board the Screen, at Gettysburg, with the bloody struggle of Antietam. These eyewitness accounts are interspersed with simple commentaries by a few of our most respected historians - Douglas Southall Freeman and John J. Pullen, for example - who light up the accounts by positioning them in their proper context. Those who have been looking for just one volume that handles to tell the whole story of the conflict in an obvious way need search no further. Fight: The Civil War is a gritty and readable history. Immediate and at the same time informative, here's that uncommon work that actually brings the battles and character types of days gone by to life.
