War is All Hell: A Collection o f Civil War Quotations
Edited by Randall Bedwell
War is All Hell is a no-holds-barred look at the American Civil War through the words of the people who endured it. Filled with more than 470 quotations from persons directly involved in the war and arranged with dozens of illustrations to convey the character of the war to present-day readers, it captures the thoughts and emotions of the times in a way that no ordinary history book can do.
Here in their own words are the thoughts, emotions, and curses of a nation at war with itself. Drawing on the well-known leaders such as Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Davis, and Longstreet, it also contains a rich sampling of the common soldiers' observations and insights of the war. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction, highlighting significant events and describing the progress of the war. Both the eastern and western theaters are covered, with particular attention being paid to the great battlefield confrontations. The result is a surprisingly thorough coverage of the war's events and those who wore the blue and the gray.
"Were the thing to be done over again, I would do as I then did. Disappointments have not changed my convictions." —Jefferson Davis in his postwar memoirs
| RANDALL BEDWELL is a publishing veteran who has written, edited, and published dozens of volumes. He is also the author of Tennessee Two Hundred: A Quotable History of the Volunteer State and the May I Quote You, General series containing the thoughts of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, James Longstreet, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joseph Chamberlain, and Ulysses S. Grant, and the publisher of General Lee and Santa Claus. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee. |
$12.95, Paperback
ISBN-10: 1-58182-419-9 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58182-419-3 (Paperback)
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