Battles for the Union

The story of the American Civil War in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865. Describes the struggle in a graphic, thrilling style that makes the heart throb and the blood tingle, as though the scenes which he depicts were passing before the eye of the reader. The author aims more at a vigorous than a polished style, and infuses into every battle-scene which he depicts his own soldier spirit. The work treats essentially, as its name indicates, of the battles for the Union, the author being evidently at his best in describing a bristling cavalry charge, or telling of the fiery, furious rain of bomb-shells. Notwithstanding its vigorous warlike character, there is a thread of romance running throughout the work that elevates it above the coarse level of scenes of carnage, as depicted by some writers, and wins the attention of the reader from, the opening to the closing chapter.