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Foreword: Billy Collins

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Remembering the Civil War stained glass But lately the structure ofIn the years following the American Civil War, many participants generals, politicians, journalists, and soldiers authored first hand accounts of their unique experiences. As Alfred E. Smith of the Library of Congress wrote in 1998, "No chapter of American history has been so voluminously recorded." While the quality and reliability of the memoirs varies, a large number provide important perspectives that, taken together, offer vivid descriptions of