For over six decades, Dover Publications has published affordable books in many different genres, including many Civil War and Military History titles.  And while many of their books present factual, historical overviews of the Civil War, their editorial staff searched far and wide to find books that also presented the personal side of the war; first-hand accounts, by letters, journals, or poetry that put the reader directly inside the war by the people that were there. Here is a small sampling of some of these titles, ALL now available at 25% OFF. See below for ordering details: 

A Yankee Private's Civil War/Robert Hale Strong
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Robert Hale Strong was just 19 years old when he marched off to the Civil War with the 105th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He not only survived to tell of his experiences, he provided the best and clearest insights into how the war looked and felt to an ordinary foot soldier.  A Yankee Private's Civil War chronicles a soldier's path from starry-eyed volunteer to hardened veteran with a combination of brutal realism and unwavering good humor. Strong's vivid accounts of the intensity of battle and the horrors of war are punctuated by his stories of day-to-day survival tactics and vignettes recounting the quiet heroism of his comrades in arms.

Civil War Short Stories and Poems
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This anthology contains reflections from both sides of the Civil War conflict, including the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Walt Whitman; observations by Herman Melville and Louisa May Alcott; and noteworthy fiction by Ambrose Bierce ("An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge") and Mark Twain ("A True Story, Repeated Word for Word, As I Heard It"). Lesser-known writers, many of them anonymous, offer heartfelt testimonials and eyewitness accounts from battlefields and the homefront.

Memoranda During the War: Civil War Journals, 1863-1865/Walt Whitman
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During the Civil War, Walt Whitman served as a military hospital volunteer, offering medical and spiritual comfort to sick and dying soldiers. First published in book form in 1875, Whitman's Memoranda recounts soldiers' anecdotes of recent battles and army life as well as their last words and final messages to faraway friends and family. Whitman recorded his impressions of Abraham Lincoln, whom he frequently encountered on the city streets, and his thoughts on the conflict's day-to-day and historical significance. His evocative, poetic reflections offer a unique portrait of Civil War life.


Civil War Hospital Sketches/Louisa May Alcott
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Before her wider fame as the author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott achieved recognition for her accounts of her work as a volunteer nurse in an army hospital. These chronicles revealed the desperate realities of battlefield medicine as well as the tentative first steps of women in military service.

Alcott's rapidly paced prose graphically depicts the facts of hospital life, deftly balancing pathos with gentle humor. A vivid and truthful portrait of an often overlooked aspect of the Civil War, this book remains among the most illuminating reports of the era's medical practices as well as a moving testimonial to the war's human cost.

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