A few other suggestions: Soul of a Lion (or any of the biographies) of Joshua L. Chamberlain of Maine, such an interesting man. Grant's Memoirs (available in Penguin and in the American Library Series) are incredibly well written. Garry Wills (anything) but specifically Lincoln at Gettysburg. Probably the most profound reading of the Gettysburg Address and its meaning. Worth many reads. Walt Whitman and the Civil War (a new book). Anything of Whitman's from this period. There are a number of anthologies of the prose. Some slightly out of the way things: John Adams the composer has set Walt Whitman's The Dresser to music, and it is truly beautiful. The poem "On The Union Dead" by Robert Lowell is a major piece on the negro regiment (also the only good film about the Civil War I have seen, the rest (apologies to the sensitive) are crap. Peter T.
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