by William Wood
424 pgs.

This book is a general history of the Civil War published 60 years after the war from an "outsider's" (Canadian) viewpoint. It is obviously pro-union, but generally even-handed in its presentation of the men who made up the primary actors in the struggle.

From the Preface:

Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two--the War of the American Revolution and that of Puritan and Cavalier. But, though the present Chronicle never ignores the vital correlations between statesmen and commanders, it is a book of warriors, through and through.

I gratefully acknowledge the indispensable assistance of Colonel G. J. Fiebeger, a West Point expert, and of Dr. Allen Johnson, chief editor of the series and Professor of American History at Yale.

WILLIAM WOOD,
Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal Rifles, and Officer-in-charge, Canadian Special Mission Overseas.
QUEBEC, April 18, 1921

CONTENTS:

I. THE CLASH: 1861
II. THE COMBATANTS
III. THE NAVAL WAR: 1862
IV. THE RIVER WAR: 1861
V. LINCOLN: WAR STATESMAN
VI. LEE AND JACKSON: 1862-3
VII. GRANT WINS THE RIVER WAR: 1863
VIII. GETTYSBURG: 1863
IX. FARRAGUT AND THE NAVY: 1863-4
X. GRANT ATTACKS THE FRONT: 1864
XI. SHERMAN DESTROYS THE BASE: 1864
XII. THE END: 1865
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE