A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom (New Press People's History)

"Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States did for the study of American history in general." --Library Journal Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people--foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others.

Richly illustrated with little-unknown anecdotes and firsthand testimony, this path-breaking narrative moves beyond presidents and generals to tell a new and powerful story about America's most destructive conflict.