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A history of the Civil War, 1861-65 : and the causes that led up to the great conflict / by Benson J. Lossing, and a chronological summary and record of every engagement between the troops of the Union and of the Confederacy and showing the total losses and casualties together with war maps of localities compiled from the official records of the War Department, illustrated with fac-simile photographic reproductions of the official war photographs taken at the time by Mathew B. Brady under the authority of President Lincoln and now in the possession of the War Department, Washington, D.C. from whom special permission has been granted to reproduce the same to illustrate this work
- Author
- Lossing, Benson J. (Benson John), 1813-1891
- Additional Titles
- History of the Civil War
- Published
- New York : War Memorial Association, 1912.
[Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2017] - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (512 pages) : illustrations, portraits, maps
- Additional Creators
- Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
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- HeinOnline Slavery in America and the World: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
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- "From the famous and authentic Brady war photograph collection there has been selected portraits of the great commanders and leaders of both the Union and Confederate armies and navies, and many scenes of great historical interest, taken fifty years ago and making a marvelous fac-simile reproduction of the battlegrounds, fortifications, the dead and wounded, hospitals, and incidents of the greatest conflict this country has ever known and fittingly commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the great national struggle the entire work, issued in sixteen sections, with sixteen separate color plates of great commanders in action and famous battle scenes from the painting of H.A. Ogden and other famous artists of military subjects."
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