Commanding Voices of Blue & Gray

The agony and anguish of the War Between that States affected all aspects of American life. Many quarters suffered, but one in particular seemed to prosper in the postwar aftermath; the publishing industry. Though the success of Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant (as published by Mark Twain) is a clear milestone in publishing's history of bestsellers, it was only one of many highly successful Civil War memoirs penned and published by veterans in the postwar years.

Drawing on the best of these accounts, most of them long out of print, Commanding Voices of Blue & Gray presents in a single volume the personal words of these leaders and provides an overview of the command experience in the Civil War.

Commanding Voices of Blue & Gray includes memoirs reminiscences, and addresses from the following: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, George Armstrong Custer, and Lee Wallace, among others.