Southern History of the War: The Third Year of the WarThis is the third volume of a three volume set chronicling the history of the American Civil War from the Southern perspective. It was written by the former editor of the Richmond Examiner and published out of London. |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Southern History of the War: The Third Year of the War |
| Author | Edward Alfred Pollard |
| Publisher | C. B. Richardson, 1865 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 391 pages |
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