Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson · 1988
Buy on AmazonBattle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is a military, political, and social history of the American Civil War. An abridged, illustrated version was published in 2003. The book won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History.
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