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Civil War Books - Highlights
Highlights/Categories
- Civil War publications of the KSU Press (extensive)
- Civil War spies, agents, and the Secret Service
- Draft riots
- Harper’s Weekly (in print; covering the war years)
- Juvenile literature related to the Civil War (extensive)
- Legal cases related to the Civil War
- Lincoln assassination
- Memoirs and personal narratives (both prominent and plain folk)
- Narratives of enslaved persons (e.g. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, 1849)
- Novels and poetry related to the Civil War (e.g. first edition of The Red Badge of Courage)
- Official roster of the soldiers of the state of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866
- Alphabetical index to Official roster of the soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of Rebellion
- Orations (e.g. Henry Ward Beecher)
- Pictorial works
- Prisoner of war camps
- Regimental histories
- Women in the Civil War
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