The Civil War was the culmination of years of division and political conflict between the largely agrarian South and the industrialized North. It was a war that employed the very latest in military technology to wreak death and destruction on the combatants and was the first major armed confrontation to be recorded in photographs. With material drawn from the world famous resources of the Bettmann Archives, This book graphically portrays the reality of a war that tore apart but ultimately united the American nation.
There is a CD-Rom included that has images, but there is a program to load to view them that is 25 years old and not guaranteed to work on a modern computer.
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