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David W. Blight, ed. When This Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster

David W. Blight, ed. When This Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992)



This exceptionally literate collection of 137 letters chronicles the experiences of an ordinary Union soldier caught up in extraordinary events.

This is a fine collection of Civil War letters, beautifully edited by David Blight.  The introduction should serve as a model for other published collections.
Joseph T. Glattharr, University of Houston

Hardcover, 366 pages, illustrations

$35