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The Civil War as youve never experienced it before, through original, first-hand reportage of The New York Times, the countrys newspaper of record. & nbsp; Available for the first time in a unique book/DVD package The New York Times, established in 1851, was one of the few newspapers with correspondents on the front lines throughout the Civil War. The Complete Civil War collects every article written about the war from 1861 to 1865, plus select pieces before and after the war and is filled with the action, politics, and personal stories of this monumental event. From the first shot fired at Fort Sumter to the surrender at Appomattox, and from the Battle of Antietam to the Battle of Atlanta, as well as articles on slavery, states rights, the role of women, and profiles of noted heroes such as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, the era comes alive through these daily first-hand accounts. More than 600 of the most crucial and interesting articles in the book typeset and designed for easy reading Commentary by Editors and Civil War scholars Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds More than 104,000 additional articles on the DVD-ROM every article the Times published during the war. A detailed chronology highlights articles and events of interest that can be found on the disk. Strikingly designed and illustrated with hundreds of maps, historical photographs, and engravings, this book is a treasure for Civil War and history buffs everywhere. This is a fascinating and riveting look at the most important event in American history as seen through the eyes of an institution that was emerging as the most important newspaper in American history. & nbsp; In these pages, the Civil War seems new and fresh, unfolding day after anxious day, as the fate of the republic hangs in the balance. & nbsp; Ken Burns Serious historians and casual readers alike will find this extraordinary collection of 600 articles and editorials about the Civil War published in The New York Times before and during the war of great value and interest ... enough to keep the most assiduous student busy for the next four years of the wars sesquicentennial observations. & nbsp; James McPherson This fascinating work catapults readers back in time, allowing us to live through the Civil War as daily readers of The New York Times, worrying about the outcome of battles, wondering about our generals, debating what to do about slavery, hearing the words that Lincoln spoke, feeling passionate about our politics. & nbsp; Symonds and Holzer have found an ingenious new way to experience the most dramatic event in our nations history. Doris Kearns Goodwin Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds have included not only every pertinent article from the pages of The Times, but enhanced and illuminated them with editorial commentary that adds context and perspective, making the articles more informative and useful here than they were in the original issues. & nbsp; Nowhere else can readers of today get such an understanding of how readers of 1861-1865 learned of and understood their war. William C Davis The DVD runs on Windows 2000/XP or Mac OS X 10.3 or later.;The question of freedom or slavery: the coming of the Civil War, 1850-1860 -- The approaching triumph of Mr. Lincoln: May-November 1860 -- The momentous issue of Civil War: December 1860-March 1861 -- The excitement has been intense: April-May 1861 -- The greatest battle ever fought on this continent: June-July 1861 -- What we are fighting for: August-October, 1861 -- The darkest and gloomiest year: November 1861-January 1862 -- The iron gunboats have settled the question: February-March 1862 -- Operations seem everywhere to have come almost to a dead halt: April-May 1862 -- In front of Richmond: June-July 1862 -- Removing that dreadful evil: August-October 1862 -- A people suffering fearfully: November 1862-January 1863 -- If we win a battle: February-April 1863 -- A terrific crash of musketry: May-June 1863 -- An action of gigantic magnitude: July 1863 -- A desparate engagement: August-September 1863 -- The shock of battle: October-Novembrer 1863.;By renouncing their treason: December 1863-February 1864 -- Gen. Grant and staff arrived here to-day: March-April 1864 -- We are going on to Richmond, depend upon it: May 1864 -- Fighting has been going on nearly all day: June-July 1864 -- There is no security from danger: August-September 1864 -- The very life of the nation is at stake: October-December 1864 -- No such thing as compromise: January-February 1865 -- The great struggle is over: March-April 1865 -- This hour of mourning and of gloom: April-May 1865 -- What is to be done with the negro?: the era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877.

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BOOK OF THE

CIVIL WAR

1861 1865

650 Eyewitness Accounts and Articles

EDITED BY
HAROLD HOLZER & CRAIG L. SYMONDS
FOREWORD BY
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON

Copyright 2010 The New York Times All rights reserved No part of this book - photo 2

Copyright 2010 The New York Times

All rights reserved. No part of this book, either text or illustration, may be used or reproduced in any form without prior written permission from the publisher.

Published by
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc.
151 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011

Distributed by
Workman Publishing Company
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New York, NY 10014

Cover design by Sheila Hart Design, Inc.

Cover art: 35 Star West Virginia Statehood Flag, Courtesy Jeff R. Bridgman American Antiques (www.jeffbridgman.com); Coltons new railroad and county map of the United States, 1862, Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Memory Project.

Photo Credits:
All images are courtesy of the Library of Congress, except for the following:
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eISBN: 978-1-60376-376-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Foreword

BY PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON

This is a book about a war and a newspaper: the Civil War the bloodiest and most transformative conflict in our history, and The New York Times, which recorded the events of the war and explained them to its vast audience.

In our own age of relentless information and opinion overload from 24-hour television news, talk radio, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and the World Wide Web, the old-fashioned broadsheet newspaper with its narrow columns and tiny type may seem to be nothing more than a curious antique of limited reach. But such papers managed to elect presidents, propel (or depress) the national economy, sustain wars, and inspire the expansion of human freedom.

During the Civil War era, New Yorks daily newspapers gave an increasingly diverse population of local readers native-born New Yorkers, German and Irish immigrants, free African-Americans, and many others a vivid window into current events and forceful opinions on the most important issues. Their power to inform and persuade also reached well beyond their hometown base, through national editions that reached hundreds of thousands of people from coast to coast, an enormous audience for the period.

This golden age of newspapers did not necessarily guarantee readers greater reliability than the noisy outlets we have today. Unlike todays big urban dailies, nineteenth century papers did not pretend to be neutral and impartial dispensers of information. They were openly and proudly partisan. The New York Herald was the conservative-leaning Democratic paper; The New York Tribune was the paper of the liberal Republicans; and The New York Times was the paper of the establishment Republicans. (Of course, there has been some realignment in the positions of the major parties since Lincolns time!)

This book vividly reminds us just how strongly the Republican newspapers supported the Union during the Civil War, while the northern Democratic papers questioned and attacked the policies and practices of Lincoln and his administration and those published in the South supported the rebellion and the Confederacy. They were, in effect, the Fox News and MSNBC of their day. The Times, which in modern times has been called the Gray Lady, was anything but back then.

Even then, however, as this collection shows, The Times pioneered a somewhat different, subtler brand of journalism. Though the paper was unabashedly pro-Republican its founder, Henry Raymond, had served as the Republican speaker of the State Assembly The Times promised from the outset of the war to seek truth, avoid extremism, and strive for consensus. At a time when newspapers routinely used the kind of inflammatory language we currently associate with talk radio, this flagship of American dailies all but invented the policy of offering straightforward, temperate, and credible reporting.

Still, its efforts at restraint shouldnt be overstated. Readers who sample this collection edited by historians Craig Symonds and my friend Harold Holzer will see that its viewpoint was pro-Union and pro-Lincoln. The Times earnestly supported the war to suppress the Rebellion and, later, cheered the Emancipation Proclamation and the recruitment of African-American soldiers to fight for their own freedom. It condemned weak-kneed Unionism and urged loyalty to the Lincoln administration. Moreover, from the ardor and the emphasis on specific issues evident in the articles, it becomes clear that The Times did more than cheer from the sidelines: it helped spur a sometimes weary North to maintain the struggle to restore the Union and provide the new birth of freedom that Abraham Lincoln spoke of so eloquently at Gettysburg. Because there was no live coverage of momentous events, newspapers like The Times gave Americans their only record of the words Lincoln spoke that day. In doing so, it helped create what today we call the first draft of history.

Presidents of that era held no news conferences or daily briefings. Nor did they employ press and public relations specialists to defend their programs and hone their messages. Instead, they relied on friendly newspapers to print their letters and public statements. Abraham Lincoln made great use of this method of communicating with the American people, thanks in no small measure to The Times.

Times editor Henry Raymond continued running his newspaper even after he assumed the role of chairman of the Republican National Committee and began raising funds for Abraham Lincolns re-election campaign. There is no modern example of this kind of open political participation by journalists. Imagine the outcry today if the head of one of the major television networks assumed chair-manship of one of the major parties. During the era of the Civil War, such partisanship was not only tolerated, but accepted. Today independent groups issue reports on positive or negative bias in the coverage of candidates and officeholders, while media outlets routinely deny that it exists. Readers of this collection will decide for themselves how effective, responsible, and appropriate the system was then, and whether todays coverage would serve the public better if more media declared their sympathies openly.

For most Americans of the Civil War era, newspapers were the sole source of information social or political for a news-hungry population. They were there every morning for a penny or two. Often brilliantly written, they brought the Civil War with all its terror, grandeur, cruelty, suffering, triumph, and social change into American homes. They were the eyes and the ears of the people.

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