Voices of the Civil War Author:Richard Wheeler Compiling eyewitness accounts of the American Civil War, a new history of that conflict presents an intimate chronicle of war, from the opening shots at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox. — This was the Civil War, as it was fought and suffered, seen and recorded, by the men and women on both sides of the conflict. These searingly v... more »ivid eyewitness reports form a continuous narrative of the war on all fronts, in the east and west, on land and sea, in battle and behind the lines in both South and North, from the first guns fired at Fort Sumter to the final stillness at Appomattox. The voices belong to the leaders and the generals, common soldiers and ordinary civilians, all caught up in the tumult and tidal movement of vast events. The result is the Civil War as it really was and what it really meant to America and Americans.« less