AMERICAN CIVIL WAR REPORTS AS RECORDED IN...

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR REPORTS AS RECORDED IN HARPER’S WEEKLY edited by Sidney Rudeau (Historical Briefs Inc., Box 629, 260 Madalyn Ave., Verplanck, N.Y. 10596: $24.95; 224 pp., paperback original). These accounts from “A Journal of Civilization” give the reader a sense of the War as contemporary readers knew it. In addition to news stories and dispatches, the reproduced magazine pages include commentaries, cartoons and advertisements (a silver “Army” watch on a vest chain: $7). The dramatic woodcuts of battles, generals, congressmen, private soldiers and escaped slaves provide a vivid pictorial compliment to the many written accounts of the Civil War.