This is the first book of colorized photographs that depicts not only portraits of the leaders and soldiers from the Union and the Confederacy, but real vignettes from American life during the war: soldiers in the field, scenes from urban and plantation life, slaves and freedmen, destroyed cities, contested battlefields, a range of weaponry, and much more. The book includes more than 200 photographs, from the Library of Congress extensive archives,...

Excerpts from a wide range of period newspapers offer a detailed account of the Civil War and reveal how the media skewed how Northerners and Southerners viewed the war.