Publisher's Synopsis
This gripping collection of ten facsimiles of Civil War-era issues of Harper's Weekly highlights the ten bloodiest battles of the war. Battles depicted within the pages of this collection include Antietam, Fredericksburg, and the bloodiest of all, the Battle of Gettysburg. Drawing from issues originally published from 1861 to 1864, each 16-page gem is packed with news and illustrations of the battlefield as reported at the time, editorials and events of the week, profiles and portraits of military commanders, domestic intelligence, foreign news, stories, poems, and culture, political cartoons, and advertisements.
