While there may not be any great literature from the Civil War period about the war itself, the war did leave an indelible mark on some of the great American writers toiling at the time. Craig Fehrman explores the topic at The Boston Globe.
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Civil War Lit Reconsidered
By C. Max Magee posted at 7:58 pm on April 18, 2011 1
at 6:22 pm on April 19, 2011
Um, Walt Whitman?