HYMNS OF THE REPUBLIC: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War

As this history shows, the drive to the war's end climaxed in a series of monumental and emotionally devastating events: Sherman's 285-mile March to the Sea, meant to terrify Southern civilians into abandoning the Confederate cause; the shocking cataclysm of Lincoln's assassination; the somber surrender of Robert E. Lee; and the revelations of mass deaths of Union prisoners at Andersonville. 16 pages of illus.