Civil War memoir

<p><span class="deck"> To Union Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, Lincoln was a weak President, Grant an uninspired commander, Lee a slippery foe. His outspoken diary, never published before, memorably describes the Civil War’s final year</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">William Fletcher went off to war with surprisingly few illusions, and nothing he saw there gave him new ones.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The memoirs of Civil War correspondent SYLVANUS CADWALLADER were recently discovered and edited by Lincoln biographer Benjamin Thomas</span></p>