Author(s): Harold Holzer

American

This book allows you to experience the history, the politics and the individual events of the American Civil War as never seen before, through the original daily reportage of The New York Times, America's leading newspaper of public record. One of the only newspapers with correspondents on the front lines, The NY Times's complete coverage of the war is now available for the first time in this unique book-and-disc package. Includes: - All the contemporary coverage of every campaign and every battle in the American Civil War. - The reporting on the leaders, the heroes, the triumphant, the defeated and the oppressed. - All told in 65,328 eyewitness reports and contemporary New York Times articles. 300 are included in the book and all the rest on an accompanying DVD.