Some of the Most Fascinating -- and Least Known -- Stories of the Civil War unfolded in Western Pennsylvania. This collection of articles, culled from eight decades of Western Pennsylvania History magazine, encompasses a broad and compelling array of topics, from the local vote in the election of 1860 to the Pittsburgh Sanitary Fair; from an infantryman's account of combat to the fabrication of the war's largest and most powerful cannons; from New Castle's response to a fiery postwar soldiers' convention. The Civil War was fueled by munitions and thousands of soldiers from Western Pennsylvania. This volume recalls those industries and the region's people, and how their lives were changed. Book jacket.