The Written Wars : American War Prose Through the Civil War

These thirty-nine accounts of or about American war experience explore reactions to war made, waged, and justified by Americans through the Civil War period. Accounts range from the obscure (and sometimes unpublished) to the well-known. For each of the five eras the colonial period, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the War with Mexico, and the Civil War the author gives an introduction to the period and the writings, and a chronology. No subject index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.