Frank Leslie's illustrated famous leaders and battle scenes of the civil war : the most important events of the conflict between the states graphically pictured. Stirring battle scenes and grand naval engagements, drawn by special artists on the spot, portraits of principal participants, military and civil: famous forts: pathetic episodes, etc., etc., the whole forming an authentic pictorial history of the war, by such well-known artists as Becker, Crane, Beard, Schell, Lumley, Forbes, Wevill, Davis, Simons, Osborn, Wilcox, weaver, Bosse, Newton, Rawson, Russell, Sartorious, Chamberlain and others. A concise history of the Civil War, being official data secured from the war records.