The Perseus Civil War and Nineteenth-Century American Collection (340 vols.) is a comprehensive collection of works pertaining to the nineteenth century. It includes records, memoirs, biographies, and histories of people, places, and events.
This collection mostly centers on the Civil War. It chronicles the rise and fall of the Confederacy and gives a concise military history of both the Union and Confederacy. Leaders of the Civil War are examined with biographies on key figures like Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Butler, Thomas J. Jackson, Jubal A. Early, Robert E. Lee, George B. McClellan, Oliver Otis Howard, George Gordon Meade, and Abraham Lincoln. Also included are personal war memoirs of women, children, nurses, African-American soldiers, and volunteer soldiers, giving perspectives on life and events that took place during the war. The Perseus Civil War and Nineteenth-Century American Collection (340 vols.) includes The Photographic History of The Civil War (10 vols.) which...