The experiences of sixteen Civil War soldiers are reconstructed using their own eyewitness accounts to knit together a ground-level view of the entire conflict in this collection of documents, letters, diary excerpts, and images.

Glimpses of many things untold -- The tender lines of war -- Army life and the comforts of home -- Combat, bloodshed and the traces of battle -- The union divided? -- The fading gray -- Bonds broken, bonds restored -- Relics of war.