Download or read book The Whirlwind of War written by Stephen B. Oates and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic saga of the Civil War told from the viewpoints of eleven principle players in the drama: Abraham Lincoln, R.E. Lee, Mary Livermore, Jefferson Davis, William Tecumseh Sherman, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, Cornelia Hancock, John Wilkes Booth, and Walt Whitman.