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LaFantasie Glenn W |
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Titolo |
Gettysburg heroes [[electronic resource] ] : perfect soldiers, hallowed ground / / Glenn W. LaFantasie |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-72643-5 |
9786611726430 |
0-253-00017-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - Influence |
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 |
Generals - United States |
Soldiers - United States |
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Biography |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-269) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Lee's old war horse -- Frank A. Haskell : tragic hero of the Union -- Becoming Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the American dream -- Finding William C. Oates -- An Alabamian's Civil War -- Hell in Haymarket -- William C. Oates and the death of General Farnsworth -- Mr. Lincoln's victory at Gettysburg -- Lincoln and the Gettysburg awakening -- Memories of Little Round Top -- Ike and Monty take Gettysburg -- The many meanings of Gettysburg -- Feeling the past at Gettysburg. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Civil War generation saw its world in ways startlingly different from our own. In these essays, Glenn W. LaFantasie examines the lives and experiences of several key personalities who gained fame during the war and after. The battle of Gettysburg is the thread that ties these Civil War lives together. Gettysburg was a personal turning point, though |
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each person was affected differently. Largely biographical in its approach, the book captures the human drama of the war and shows how this group of individuals-including Abraham Lincoln, James Longstreet, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, William |
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