A People's History of the Civil War

“Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States did for the study of American history in general.” — Library Journal Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated with little-known anecdotes and firsthand testimony, this path-breaking narrative moves beyond presid