First Blows Of The Civil War; The Ten Years Of Preliminary Conflict In The United States From 1850 To 1860: A Contemporaneous Exposition

First published in 1879, this remains an invaluable compilation of private correspondence on political issues of the Civil War and including letters of Horace Greeley, Charles Henry Dana, the author, Chase, Seward, and Sumner, and hundreds of others, all arranged chronologically and illustrative of all of the issues of the time. Pike, Greeley, and Dana were all associated with the New York Tribune at the time. Reprint edition. 2007: 540 pages. Softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf)