An unusual collection of Civil War essays as seen through the lens of noted environmental scholars, this book's provocative historical commentary explores how nature--disease, climate, flora and fauna, etc.--affected the war and how the war shaped Americans' perceptions, understanding, and use of nature.

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Facsimile [n.d.] of the entire poem The blue and the gray [1 l. engraving 24 cm.]--Letters, 1879 Dec. 24, & 1886, Jan. 13, Finch to William Gable and Alfred S. Roe [2 l. holograph signed] Finch replies to two autograph seekers.

Personal relationships are tested and lifestyles are altered as civil war divides the nation and the Hale and Geyser families must choose sides.