Preparing to See the Elephant

From Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, “An Incident of Battle — A Faithful Dog Watching the Dead Body of His Master”: Credit: Frank Leslie’s The Soldier in Our Civil War.

Read comments from Union and Confederate soldiers about their intense desire to receive news from family and friends back home.

Read first-person quotes by Union and Confederate soldiers about their reactions to being wounded on the Civil War battlefield.

Read the address Jefferson Davis delivered on February 18, 1861, when he was inaugurated as president of the Confederate States of America.