"...the real war will never get in the books": Selections from Writers During the Civil War

Masur brings together the personal letters, diary entries, and journal articles of some of the most distinguished writers of the time to constitute a striking literary landscape. Included are works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Henry Adams, Frederick Douglass, and many others.