Our War

The Civil War remains Our War as a nation and a people, but first it belonged to the generation that lived it. In these pages the voices of people from New Hampshire -- soldiers, wives, mothers, doctors, nurses, abolitionists, politicians -- tell fifty revealing personal stories. Taken together, their experiences bring to life the war's tragic course and bittersweet triumph.

Mike Pride is an historian and journalist. He is editor emeritus of the Concord Monitor, where he ran the newsroom for thirty years. For nine of those years, Pride served on the Pulitzer Prize board. He has co-authored several books, including My Brave Boys, a history of Colonel Edward E. Cross and the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers. Pride graduated from the University of South Florida and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He lives in Concord, N.H., with his wife Monique.