The Civil War And The New Pillar of the Temple of Liberty

The great battles of the Civil War are reenacted every year. Thousands of citizens join together to carry out the orders of generals and captains down to the last detail. Both sides of a war that pitted father against son and brother against brother suffered many hundreds of thousands of casualties. Events like the Revolutionary War or World War II have produced a great outpouring of books, but the Civil War seems to require more than mental exercise. The controversy among Civil War historians even extends to whether it should be named differently— The War Between the States, perhaps. This book focuses on those historical figures who have been examined from so many viewpoints— Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipators, Ulysses S. Grant and the Generals, and Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Leaders.