The generals, the enlisted men, and the many women who took on nursing duties, are all given their space in this masterful history. His erudite rendering of what caused civil war, and what determined the course of the conflict, is concise and brilliantly presented without being pedantic.Įvery aspect of the war is covered: the horror of fighting a battle the ghastly aftermath of fields literally covered with the bodies of the dead, dying and maimed and the attempts of men on both sides to avoid conscription.
McPherson has captured the essence of the war that split our country in two. Once picked up, The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom is hard to put down. While not a Civil War buff myself, I could not help but get caught up in the painstaking detail of the text and the poignancy of the photographs and illustrations. Each photograph and illustration is accompanied by appropriate text supplied by the author of this awesome work. Twenty-four full color maps were prepared especially for this volume.
Now this breathtaking tome has been enhanced with over seven hundred photographs. In 1988, the Pulitzer Prize winning Battle Cry of Freedom was acclaimed as the finest one-volume history of the American Civil War ever published. The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
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