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Introduction to U.S. History: The Civil War is a digital collection of nearly 500 titles totaling about 90,000 pages of text.

It documents the war that transformed America, ending slavery and unifying the nation around the principles of freedom. This collection examines the war in all its complexity; its battles and campaigns, its political and religious aspects, the experiences of its leaders and common soldiers, the home front and the military campground, from its causes to its consequences. Drawn from the Sabin collection and other Gale sources, the archive provides access to a wide variety of documents: personal narratives and memoirs, pamphlets and political speeches, sermons and songs, regimental histories and photograph albums, legal treatises and children's books, as well as documents pertaining to Black Troops, the Home Front, Foreign Relations, and William Tecumseh Sherman, among other topics.

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Marks, James Junius. The Peninsular campaign in Virginia, or, Incidents and scenes on the battle-fields and in Richmond. J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1864. Archives Unbound, link.gale.com/apps/doc/O0100051600/GDSC?u=pa_de_ccc&sid=bookmark-GDSC&xid=feee22c7&pg=1. Accessed 26 Aug. 2024.