The Real War Will Never Get in the Books: Selections From Writers During the Civil War (Henry Brooks Adams, Louis May Alcott, Lydia Maria Child, John Esten Cooke, John William De Forest, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charlotte Forten, Nathanie…

x, 301 pp. "Personal letters, diary entries, and journal articles of some of the most distinguished writers of the time to constitute a striking literary landscape. With unmatched intimacy and immediacy, these wartime writings illuminate the lines of connection between the personal, political, and creative, and offer powerful impressions of the writers who labored to find the words with which they hoped to influence the war." Writers include: Henry Brooks Adams, Louis May Alcott, Lydia Maria Child, John Esten Cooke, John William De Forest, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charlotte Forten, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Herman Melville, William Gilmore Simms, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman.