Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War: Journeys Through the Battlefields in the Wake of Conflict

by William Barritt and Benson John Lossing

Book Overview

Before the rise of professional academic history, there were devoted Brahmins of a literary bent (George Bancroft, Francis Parkman and Henry Adams) and skilled researchers and chroniclers, men such as J. Thomas Scharf of Maryland history fame and - the most prolific of all - Ben Lossing of New York, who, since they made their living by writing history, could rightly be labelled professional after all. Every literate history lover in the mid-to-late...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801856698
• ISBN13: 9780801856693
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 3 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.8"