Civil War in Pictures

Civil War in Pictures by Fletcher Pratt. Published by Garden City Books, Garden City, NY, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardbound, No DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Good. Edge & corner wear, overall content excellent. 256 Pgs. LCCN 55-10646. The pictures are drawings, not photographs. This is a book about the Civil War by the people who saw it and lived it. It is a compilation, mainly from the files of Harper's Weekly, but also with a good deal of material from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, of on-the-spot reports and draining of what happened during the greatest American conflicts and of the popular conception of the importance of the events of the war. Description text copyright 2019 BooksForComfort. Item ID 33064.