Brief battle narratives by experts on those battles are accompanied by monochromatic representations of the original full-color lithographs.

Originally published as a companion book to the book containing full-color plates of the Kurz & Allison lithographs. Bruce C. Clarke Library only owns the battle narratives volume of this set. Some of the Kurz & Allison color lithographs are available to view at the Library of Congress' web page : https://www.loc.gov/collections/popular-graphic-arts/?fa=contributor:kurz+%26+allison%7Cpartof:civil+war&sb=date_desc&st=list (viewed 6 May 2019). Volume 2. is portfolio of prints and is housed in the Oversize Special Collections - 3rd floor.

Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861 /by Virgil Carrington Jones. -- Battle of Wilson's Creek, August 10, 1861 / by Alan W. Farley. -- Battle of Fort Donelson, February 12-16, 1862 / by Edwin C. Bearss. -- Battle of Pea Ridge, March 7-8, 1862 / by Wayland M. Hackett. -- Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack, March 9, 1862 / by John T. Gibson. -- Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 / by Bell I. Wiley. -- Battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862 / by Marshall Andrews. -- Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862 / by John M. Redding. -- Battle of Corinth, October, 3-4, 1862 / by Warren H. Green. -- Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862 / by Alex Spears. -- Battle of Stones River, December 31, 1862 and January 2, 1863 / by Edwin C. Bearss. -- Battle of Chancellorsville, May 2-4, 1863 / by Edmund C. Gass. -- Battle of Champion Hill, May 16, 1863 / Edmund C. Bearss. -- Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863 / by Alex Spears. -- Siege of Vicksburg, May 18-July 4, 1863 / by Edwin C. Bearss. -- Storming of Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863 / by Benjamin Quarles. -- Battle of Chickamauga, September 19-20, 1863 / by Joseph B. Mitchell. -- Battle of Chattanooga, November 23, 1863 / by Joseph B. Mitchell. -- Battle of Lookout Mountain, November 24, 1863 / by Joseph B. Mitchell. -- Battle of Missionary Ridge, November 24-25, 1863 / by Joseph B. Mitchell. -- Assault of Fort Sanders, November 29, 1863 / by Karl S. Betts. -- Battle of Olustee, February 20, 1864 / by Freeman H. Hart. -- The Fort Pillow Massacre, April 12, 1864 / by Lorenzo J. Greene. -- Battle of The Wilderness, May 6, 1864 / by Hugh Price Crowe. -- Battle of Spotsylvania, May 8-18, 1864 / by Scott Hart. -- Battle of Resaca, May 14-15, 1864 / by Joseph B. Mitchell. -- Battle of Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864 / by Hugh Price Crowe. -- Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Jule 27, 1864 / by Joseph B. Mitchell. -- Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864 / Joseph B. Mitchell. -- Battle of Opequon, September 19, 1864 / by Catherine Sinclair Sisto. -- Battle of Cedar Creek, October, 19, 1864 / by James I. Robertson, Jr. -- Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 / by Campbell H. Brown. -- Battle of Nashville, December 15-16, 1864 / by Campbell H. Brown. -- Capture of Fort Fisher, January 15, 1865 / by Marshall Andrews. -- Battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1865 / by James C. Fry. -- Fall of Petersburg, April 2, 1865 / by Scott Hart.