[Illustration: _The much-publicized Andersonville prison. The declaration by Union authorities that medicine was a contraband of war and their unwillingness to exchange prisoners contributed to the deplorable prison deaths. Prisoners didn't fare better in the North. Camp Douglas, Illinois, had the highest death rate of all Civil war prisons--10 per cent of its prisoners died in one month._] [Illustration: _Unknown warriors at Cold Harbor awaited a soldier's burial that never came. Two years later the armies returned to the same field of battle to find those who were forgotten--still waiting._] [Illustration: _Boys volunteered for a man's job. This Confederate lad gave his last full measure._] [Illustration: _The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead._" --_THEODORE O'HARA_] [Illustration: _Richmond 1865--Gaunt remains cast their shadow over the former Confederate capital. The rampaging fire, started during the evacuation, leveled the waterfront and the business district._] [Illustration: _Charleston, South Carolina, shows the scars of modern warfare. The concept of total war introduced during the 1860's carried destruction beyond the battlefield._] [Illustration: _The home of Wilmer McLean at Appomattox. Here the tragic drama closed at 3:45 on Palm Sunday afternoon, April 9, 1865._] [Illustration: THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX; BASED UPON THE LITHOGRAPH CALLED "THE DAWN OF PEACE." BY PERMISSION OF W. H. STELLE.] [Illustration: _Pennsylvania Avenue--host to the Armies of Grant and Sherman during the Grand Review._] [Illustration: _The last reunion of Blue and Gray at Gettysburg. The victories and the defeats ... they have become a common property and a common responsibility of the American people._] Losses in Killed, Wounded, and Missing in Engagements, Etc., WHERE THE TOTAL WAS FIVE HUNDRED OR MORE ON THE SIDE OF THE UNION TROOPS. CONFEDERATE LOSSES GIVEN ARE GENERALLY BASED ON ESTIMATES.