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The Library of Congress Illustrated Timeline of the Civil War

With striking visuals from the Library of Congress' unparalleled archive, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ILLUSTRATED TIMELINE OF THE CIVIL WAR is an authoritative and engaging narrative of the domestic conflict that determined the course of American history. A detailed chronological timeline of the war captures the harrowing intensity of 19th-century warfare in first-hand accounts from soldiers, nurses, and front-line journalists. Readers will be enthralled by speech drafts in Lincoln's own hand, quotes from the likes of Frederick Douglass and Robert E. Lee, and portraits of key soldiers and politicians who are not covered in standard textbooks. The Illustrated Timeline's exciting new source material and lucid organization will give Civil War enthusiasts a fresh look at this defining period in our nation's history.

The largestlibraryintheworld and an institution known both as “America's Library”
and the “Nation's Memory,” the Library of Congress is located in three large
buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC , and the Packard Campus for
AudioVisual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia, which houses 6.2 million moving
images, sound recordings, and related documents. (Materials in Culpeper can be
called to or accessed from the Library's Washington facilities.) From 740 volumes
and 3 ...