{"product_id":"book-6348","title":"Hearts Touched by Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at the\u003cem\u003e Century \u003c\/em\u003emagazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired a brainstorm: Why not let the magazine’s 125,000 readers in on the conversation by offering “a series of papers on some of the great battles of the war, to be written by officers in command on both sides.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe articles would be written by generals, Union and Confederate alike, who had commanded the engagements two decades earlier—“or, if he were not living,” by “the person most entitled to speak for him or in his place.” The pieces would present both sides of each major battle and would be fair and free of politics. Now, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the most enduring entries from the classic four-volume series \u003cem\u003eBattles and Leaders of the Civil War\u003c\/em\u003e have been edited and merged into one definitive volume. Here are the best of the immortal first-person accounts of the Civil War originally published in the pages of the \u003cem\u003eCentury \u003c\/em\u003emagazine more than a hundred years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHearts Touched by Fire\u003c\/em\u003e offers stunning accounts of the war’s great battles written by the men who planned, fought, and witnessed them, from leaders such as General Ulysses S. Grant, General George McClellan, and Confederate captain Clement Sulivane to men of lesser rank. This collection also features new year-by-year introductions by esteemed historians, including James M. McPherson, Craig L. Symonds, and James I. Robertson, Jr., who cast wise modern eyes on the cataclysm that changed America and that would go down as the bloodiest conflict in our nation’s history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one interested in our country’s past will want to be without this collection of the most popular and influential first-person Civil War memoirs ever published.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49312783401264,"sku":"BD6348","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49312783434032,"sku":"ZE6348","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49312783466800,"sku":"ZM6348","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/6348-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775696107","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-6348","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}