Southern History of the Great Civil War in the United States.

ix, [10]-383, [1] pp. 8vo. Green cloth, bronze titles. Includes engraved portraits of President Abraham Lincoln, General Robert E. Lee, and General George McClellan. "An invaluable document for scholars, historians and the general public.... it covers all the events leading to the war--the rise of strict constructionists, the 1850 Compromise, John Brown's Raid--and traces the major occurrences" through the year of publication. Following the war this work was expanded into two volume.