Edmund Wilson wrote a book-length analysis of the literature of this armed conflict, including discussions of authors like Francis Grierson and Albion Tourgee, titled Patriotic Gore. The diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut provide a first-hand look at the lives of women during this conflict. William Collins leads a group called the "Raiders" in a novel 
Edmund Wilson wrote a book-length analysis of the literature of this armed conflict, including discussions of authors like Francis Grierson and Albion Tourgee, titled Patriotic Gore. The diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut provide a first-hand look at the lives of women during this conflict. William Collins leads a group called the "Raiders" in a novel about a prison camp in this war; that work by MacKinlay Kantor also features first-person narration from real-life commander Henry Wirz, and is titled Andersonville. FTP, name this war that was also fictionalized by Shelby Foote in the novel Shiloh.
Edmund Wilson wrote a book-length analysis of the literature of this armed conflict, including discussions of authors like Francis Grierson and Albion Tourgee, titled Patriotic Gore.
US Civil War [accept equivalents, such as War of Northern Aggression]