My Diary North South 2 Volume Set My Diary North South Volume 1 W… 9781108041225

My Diary North and SouthAuthor(s): William Howard Russell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108041225, 978-1108041225\nSynopsis\nWilliam Howard Russell [tel] was a nineteenth-century war correspondent for The Times. In 18612 he visited America to report on the secession crisis that had followed Abraham Lincoln's campaign to abolish slavery, in which eleven southern states had withdrawn from the United States to form their own confederacy, resulting in the American Civil War. First published in 1863, this two-volume work recounts Russell's experiences there. Based on his interviews with Lincoln, other pivotal figures, and ordinary citizens, together with his diaries and his letters to The Times, it documents his impressions of both the northern and the opposing southern states as he travelled through them. His book, thought to have been compiled in response to accusations that he was biased towa.