"Best Little Stories from the Civil War" is a collection of more than one hundred true stories from America's most divisive war. Filled with dramatic personal snapshots of the events-gathered from letters, diaries, eyewitness accounts, and autobiographies-the book focuses on matters of human interest behind the newspaper headlines. Not only are the military campaigns and battles of the war reported; so are the experiences of those affected by them-as combatants or as civilians-recorded in vivid detail, often in their own words. Here soldiers describe their first experience, women observe the advances and retreats of armies, spies recount their methods, and leaders reveal the reasoning behind many of their public actions. "Best Little Stories from the Civil War" is truly an insider's look at the war that split the nation.