History of the Civil War 1861–1865

A History of the Civil War 1861–1865 is a book by James Ford Rhodes. It won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1918.The book is about the American Civil War.This Pulitzer Prize winning book remains one of the best histories on the topic of American Civil War to this day. For the purpose of writing this comprehensive work the author used the most authoritative documents and sources including Personal Traits of Lincoln Life and Letters of General Meade Diary of Gideon Welles The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz and Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies.