Perhaps the most pivotal event in American history, the Civil War began with the purpose of preserving the Union and ended with the abolition of slavery, costing approximately 620,000 lives in the process. This collection of letters, memoirs, newspaper articles and diary entries, from Otsego County in central New York, was first gathered together in 2005, and has now been revised and greatly expanded for the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War.The poignant words of the soldiers who lived through the war portray how these men felt the initial excitement of enlistment, adjusted to...
Perhaps the most pivotal event in American history, the Civil War began with the purpose of preserving the Union and ended with the abolition of slave...
