A history of the civil war, 1861-65 : and the causes that led up to the great conflict / by Benson J. Lossing, LL. D.; and a chronological summary and record of every engagement between the troops of the Union and of the Confederacy and showing the total losses and casualties together with war maps of localities; compiled from the official records of the War department. Illustrated with facsimile photographic reproductions of the official war photographs, taken at the time by Matthew B. Brady, under the authority of President Lincoln and now in the possession of the War Department, Washington, D.C. from whom special permission has been granted to reproduce the same to illustrate this work.