# What This Cruel War Was Over

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- Book: [What This Cruel War Was Over](https://www.bookquiver.com/chandra-manning/what-this-cruel-war-was-over) ([What This Cruel War Was Over.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chandra-manning/what-this-cruel-war-was-over.md))
- Authors: [Chandra Manning](https://www.bookquiver.com/chandra-manning)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-0727-732-9
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2008-03-11
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country,...