The Civil War Centennial Handbook

The Civil War Centennial Handbook is by William H. Price. The contents list names, among others, The First Modern War and Brother Against Brother. The picture part of the contents list covers, among others, camp life, religion and the soldier, and correspondents at the front.

The text tells the story of 18,000 men in Gen. Sedgwick's Corps who formed a marching column that stretched over ten miles of road, and of how they marched steadily for eighteen hours, stopping only once to rest, until they reached Gettysburg where the crucial battle was raging. The text tells of more than two hundred young VMI Cadets, who without hesitation left their classrooms to fight alongside hardened veterans at the battle of New Market in 1864. The text calls the fact that a Nation which contained hardly more than 30 million people, North and South together, could sustain 600,000 deaths without faltering a lasting testimonial to something unconquerable in the American spirit.