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Author Haskins, James, 1941-2005.

Title The day Fort Sumter was fired on : a photo history of the Civil War / by Jim Haskins.

Publication Info. New York : Scholastic, 1995.

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 973.7 HASKINS    Check Shelf
Description 96 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 92) and index.
Summary The course of the Civil War from Bull Run and on to Reconstruction is documented with photographs in this book which considers not just military maneuvers and politics but also the war's effect on women, Blacks, and children.
Contents The guns of war -- The seeds of disunion -- Uncle Tom's cabin and the Dred Scott decision -- The birth of the Republican Party -- Patriots, North and South -- The children's war -- Bull Run -- The naval war -- The people's war -- Shiloh -- The women's war -- The peninsula campaign -- Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation -- The negro's war -- Vicksburg and Gettysburg -- Sherman's march -- The fall of Richmond -- Reconstruction and its aftermath -- Important dates, 1820-1877.
Subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN 0590463977 paperback
9780590463973 paperback
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