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Stanchak, John E.

Civil War / - 1st American ed. - New York : Dorling Kindersley Pub., �2000. - 64 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 color map ; 29 cm. - DK eyewitness books . - DK eyewitness books. .

Includes index.

Long argument -- Slave life -- Election of 1860 -- Underground Railroad -- Secession -- Raising armies -- Everyone's war -- Women at war -- Young and the old -- Outfitting armies -- Bull Run -- Sick and wounded -- Great commanders -- Arming soldiers -- Black volunteers -- Horsemen -- Army camp life -- Field artillery -- Gettysburg -- Siege of Vicksburg -- Northern life -- Confederate culture -- War on the water -- Secret war -- March to the Sea -- Confederacy surrenders -- Fates of two leaders -- Life of freedom -- New era begins -- Index.

Examines many aspects of the Civil War, including the issue of slavery, secession, the raising of armies, individual battles, the commanders, Northern life, Confederate culture, the surrender of the South, and the aftermath.

ISBN: 078946988X 9780789469885 0789463024 9780789463029 0789486466 9780789486462 0751313653 9780751313659 9780756696917 0756696917 9780756672683 0756672686

LCCN: 00020431

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1861 - 1865

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Juvenile literature.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.
Juvenile works.

LC Class. No.: E468 / .S795 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 973.7