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Book

United no more! : stories of the Civil War

Call Number

  • *J 973.7 R (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2006.

Physical Description

xi, 132 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Audience

008-012.

Summary

Stories of seven people who lived through the Civil War times.

Contents

  • Start of the war
  • "Battle Hymn of the Republic" : Julia Ward Howe
  • "In good spirits" : Eugenia Phillips
  • "Bread or blood!" : Mary Jackson
  • "Flag all free without a slave" : William H. Carney
  • "Full speed ahead!" : David Glasgow Farragut
  • "With malice toward none" : Abraham Lincoln and Noah Brooks
  • The surrender : Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
  • Epilogue
  • Important events
  • Battle Hymn of the Republic
  • Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln.

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