The Spate of Civil War Literature | Walter Edgar's Journal - Episode 3

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Walter Edgar talks with Dr. McPherson about the increase in Civil War writings within the past thirty years.  Writers have since expanded on aspects like civilian life, experiences for common soldiers, and other elements of sentimentality not really analyzed before by historiographers.