The American Civil War

The war that remade America — Lincoln, Douglass, Whitman’s Drum-Taps, and Crane’s Red Badge of Courage.

A nation against itself

In this collection

• What's Wrong with the World
• The Old Man and His Sons
• The Fête At Coqueville
• The Ghost
• The Golden Chimera
• Parables in Household Things
• The Witch
• Galactic Heritage
• Mother and Sphinx (Egyptian Folk-Song)
• Song of the Men's Side
• The First Sighting of Australia by the English
• Sweethearts
• Tolliver's Orbit
• The Night in Isla Negra
• Edith Conant
• Will none say of Sappho
• Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign
• Lizzie
• La Lettre D'Amour
• Roman Catholics and Shakespeare
• The Drawing in India Ink
• Ticket No. 9672
• Pamela Pounce
• The Rest Hut (February-March, 1918)
• A Boy Sent by Express, C. o. D
• A Fighting Editor
• A Painful Accident
• A Perilous Ride
• A Rich Reward for Services
• A Terrible Storm at Chattanooga
• A Visit from General Grant and General Mcpherson
• A Visit to Captain Walke's Gunboat
• A Visit to Parson Brownlow
• A Woman Wounded in Battle
• A Young Nurse at Gettysburg
• Army Life at Helena, Arkansas
• Army Tricks
• Blowing up of Fort Hill
• Braving Dangers
• Bursting of a Shell Behind my Carriage
• Could you Get me a Raw Onion and some Salt?
• Exhibitions of Mother-Love
• Fred D. Grant -- the Brave Orderly at Vicksburg
• General Grant's Kindness
• Getting 2,000 Sick and Wounded out of Helena, Ark
• Hardships of Camp-Life at Vicksburg
• He Died Cheering the Flag
• Healed Soul and Body
• Hospital Abuses -- Putting Logwood in the Coffee
• How I Got the Cotton
• How Mother Bickerdyke Cut Red Tape
• How President Lincoln Received the News of Sheridan's Victory
• I have the Best Mother in the World
• I have the Comforter
• Johnnie Clem
• Liberty Hicks
• Meeting a Rebel Woman at Nashville
• Memorial Day
• Men who Commanded themselves and did not Swear
• Not Time to Send for the Colonel
• Reminiscence of General Grant
• Running the Blockade at Vicksburg
• Saved by a Bird
• Saved by Lemonade
• Saving the Life of Young Pike
• Searching for the Dead
• Secretary Stanton's Generous Gift
• Sharing Poor Quarters with Dorothy L. Dix
• The Clock at Vicksburg
• The First Soldiers Wounded in the Civil War
• The Hospital at Point of Rocks, Va
• The Hospitals of Vicksburg at the Time of the Surrender
• The New York Herald Reporter who Lived for Two Worlds
• The Sad Fate of Jennie Wade
• The Special-Diet Kitchen Work
• The Surrender of Vicksburg
• The Sweet Singer of the Hospitals
• The Wonderful Potato-Patch
• Trading Tobacco for Coffee
• Two Dreadful Days on the Battlefield. Shiloh
• Very Timely Arrest
• Visiting Hospitals under the Guns

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