Civil War
2023
Book
"Take a trip through time and witness the deadliest war in US history. With the help of expert historians, find out how to fight to end slavery sparked the war, see the weapons used by soldiers on the battlefields, and meet the people who risked their lives on the front lines."-- Page 4 of cover.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780744062519
- 9780744062502
- 0744062519
- 0744062500
Edition:
- Revised edition.
- [Fourth] American edition.
Description: 72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), potraits, photographs ; 29 cm.
Other Title:
- At head of title: Eyewitness
- DK eyewitness Civil War
- Eyewitness Civil War
Notes:
- "In association with the Smithsonian." -- front cover
- Includes glossary and index.
- "New Edition"--Cover.
- First American edition published in 2017.
Contents:
- The long argument
- A life of slavery
- The election of 1860
- The abolitionists
- Secession
- Raising armies
- Everyone's war
- Women at war
- Young and old
- Outfitting armies
- Bull Run
- Medical treatment
- Great commanders
- Arming soldiers
- Black volunteers
- The horsemen
- Camp life
- Field artillery
- Gettysburg
- Vicksburg
- Northern life
- Confederate culture
- War on the water
- The secret war
- March to the Sea
- The Confederacy surrenders
- The fates of two leaders
- A life of freedom
- A new era begins
- Did you know?
- Timeline
- Find out more
- Glossary.
LCCN: bl2023013948
Control Number: 3260050
Publisher: New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2023.Series:
Subjects:
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Military leadership -- Juvenile literature.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile literature.
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