The Civil War Handbook

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L.B. Prince Co. [A Civil War Research Associates Series], 1961. Soft cover. Very Good. Jack Woodson, Illustrator. Contents Include: The Civil War; Facts: The first Modern War; Brother Against Brother; They Also Served; The Soldier, The Battle, The Losses; The Cost of War; Numbers and Losses. Pictures: The American Soldier of the 1860's; Camp Life; Passing Time Between Campaigns; Religion and the Soldier; Correspondents on the Front; Ships of the Line; Transportation and Supplies; Tools of Modern Warfare; Field Fortifications and Entrenchments; Communications; Aerial Reconnaissance; Spies and Secret Agents; the Battle's Overture; Appalling Aftermath; Marks of a Total War; After Four Years - Appomattox; Last Review of the Union Army; A Nation Re-united; Uniforms; Chronology of Battles; Map of the Major Battlefields. Civil War Centennial Proclamation No. 3882. Smaller format. 6"x9"; 72 pages.