About the Author

Ella Lonn (1879–1962) was a professor at Goucher College and the author of six histories of the South and the Civil War. Introducing this first-ever paperback edition is William Blair, an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Reviews

"[The book is] better calculated to convey a sense of the sickening realities of the Civil War than many volumes of military history."—American Historical Review

"An excellent piece of historical research."—Journal of Negro History