Between the years 1861 and 1865, America faced the biggest crisis in its history. Countryman fought countryman, brother fought brother, in a savage civil war that was to determine the nation's future. With slavery as its central issue, and states' rights also paramount, the war spilled over into every facet of life - political, economic, social, military. And ultimately, the destiny of America was decided in blood.
There is no one better to describe what it was like to be a part of the Civil War than those who lived through it. Listen, then, to the voices of Johnny Reb and Billy Yank, sometimes proud, sometimes sorrowing, as they face the carnage of the battlefield. Listen to the women tending the wounded, harvesting the fields, scavenging for daily necessities. Listen to the thrilling words of Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln. Listen to the voices of the Civil War.
