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Offers a detailed look at the lives of the soldiers, slaves, whites, and children who were most affected by the Civil War.

Presents a history of Abraham Lincoln, the genesis of the United States Republican Party, the debate on slavery, and the Civil War in the early to middle nineteenth century.

"Introduces the American Civil War, including the causes of the conflict, background on the Union and the Confederacy, the major battles and important historical figures, and how the Union won the war"--Provided by publisher.

This is the story of one of history's great events, the Revolutionary War, told almost entirely in the words of the soldiers and sailors who fought it and the civilians who endured it. Drawing on thousands of original sources---diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers, pension applications---the author has culled the most colorful and vivid passages and then woven them into a vibrant, eye-witness narrative that takes the reader from the peaceful days before the Stamp Act, through all the major events of the war, and ends with farewell accounts of what happened in later life to the people we have come to know along the way.

Fleming looks at the reasons of why the Civil War was fought.