Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes prove Wilson to be the consummate witness to the most eloquently recorded era in American history. Introduction ix Harriet Beecher Stowe 3(56) Calvin Stowe; Francis Grierson; The Battle Hymn of the Republic; The Union as Religious Mysticism 59(40) Abraham Lincoln 99(32) Northern Solidiers 131(43) Ulysses S. Grant Northern Soliders 174(45) William T. Sherman Northerners in the South 219(20) Frederick L. Olmsted John T. Trowbridge Northerners in the South 239(19) Charlotte Forten Colonel Higginson Three Confederate Ladies 258(41) Kate Stone Sarah Morgan Mary Chesnut Southern Soliders 299(37) Richard Taylor John s. Mosby Robert E. Lee Diversity of Opinion in the South 336(44) William J. Grayson George Fitzhugh Hilton R. Helper Alexander H. Stephens 380(58) The Myth of the Old South; Sidney Lanier; The Poetry of the Civil War; Sut Lovingood 438(91) Novelists of the Post-War South 529(88) Albion W. Tourgee George W. Cable Kate Chopin Thomas Nelson Page Ambrose Bierce on the Owl Creek Bridge 617(18) The Chastening of American Prose Style 635(108) John W. De Forest Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes 743(54) Index 797